The David and Elaine Spitz Prize is awarded every year for the best book in liberal and/or democratic theory published two years earlier. Clickhere to see the list of past winners.

Call for 2014 Spitz Prize:
The 2014 Spitz Prize will be given to a book published in 2012 (copyright date). Publishers and individuals are invited to nominate books by sending copies marked “Regarding Spitz Prize” directly to all three of the Prize Committee members listed below. Books that are primarily historical, rather than theoretical, together with textbooks and edited books, are ineligible. The postmark deadline for the submission of candidate books is May 31, 2014.

2014 Spitz Prize Committee:

Melissa Schwartzberg (Chair)
Department of Politics
New York University
19 W. 4th St
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New York, NY 10012