The Canadian Political Science Association announces the second biennial competition for the CPSA Prize in Comparative Politics. The prize was established to recognize the contribution of Canadian political scientists to the field of comparative politics. With this prize, the Canadian Political Science Association seeks to encourage the best Canadian scholarship in this field.

Rules

• The CPSA Prize in Comparative Politics will be awarded to the best book published, in English or in French, in the field of comparative politics.
  
  
• To be eligible, a book may be single-authored or multi-authored. Textbooks, edited books, collections of essays, translations and memoirs will not be considered.
  
  
• In the case of a single-authored book, the author must be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada or a member of the CPSA in the year the book was published. In the case of a multi-authored book, at least one of the authors must be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada or a member of the CPSA in the year the book was published. Written confirmation of citizenship, permanent residency or membership must be included with each book.
  
  
• A distinguished prize jury is appointed by the Canadian Political Science Association, which administers the prize.
  
  
• For the 2012 award, a book must have a copyright date of 2010 or 2011.
  
  
• The deadline for submission of books will be 9 December 2011.
  
  
• The Prize winner(s) will be announced at the 2012 Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association.
  
  
• The Prize winner(s) will receive a commemorative plaque. They will also receive/share the set of books submitted to the CPSA office for the 2012 prize.
  
  
• To nominate a book, a copy must be sent directly to each member of the Prize Jury and the office of the CPSA at the addresses provided below.  Packages must be clearly marked CPSA PRIZE IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS ENTRY.
  

CPSA Prize in Comparative Politics Jury
Canadian Political Science Association
Suite 204, 260 Dalhousie Street
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 7E4

Daniel Béland
School of Public Policy
101 Diefenbaker Place
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 5B8

Michelle Bonner
University of Victoria
Department of Political Science
SSM A316, 3800 Finnerty Rd.
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8P 5C2

Pablo Policzer
Department of Political Science
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4

2010
Pablo Policzer
The Rise & Fall of Repression in Chile (Notre Dame University Press, 2009)

Excerpt from the jury report:
Pablo Policzer’s The Rise & Fall of Repression in Chile (Notre Dame University Press, 2009) asks a Weberian question: how is coercion controlled and used by authoritarian states? To explain variations over time in the use of coercion in Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship, Policzer distinguishes between two types of monitoring of agents: external and internal. A principal-agent theory is used to reconstruct the history of coercion in the Chilean state drawing on original archival research. Policzer shows how improvements in internal and external monitoring brought the coercive apparatus under greater control within the regime, and thereby reduce the personal power of Pinochet.