| Titles | Order |
| What price vigilance? The burdens of national defense by Bruce M. Russett | 1971 |
| Systematic Thinking for Social Action (H. Rowan Gaither Lectures in Systems Science) by Alice M. Rivlin | 1972 |
| Participation in America: Political Democracy and Social Equality by Sidney Verba | 1973 |
| America and the world political economy; Atlantic dreams and national realities by David P. Calleo | co-winner, 1974 |
| Opening up the suburbs; an urban strategy for America by Anthony Downs | co-winner, 1974 |
| Comparative Public Policy: The Politics of Social Choice in Europe and America by Arnold Heidenheimer | 1976 |
| School Politics, Chicago Style by Paul E. Peterson | 1977 |
| Ecology and the politics of scarcity: Prologue to a political theory of the steady state by William Ophuls | 1978 |
| Political Control of the Economy by Edward R. Tufte | 1979 |
| Policymaking for Social Security by Martha Derthick | 1980 |
| Money in Congressional Elections by Gary C. Jacobson | co-winner, 1981 |
| Street Level Bureaucracy (Publications of Russell Sage Foundation) by Michael Lipsky | co-winner, 1981 |
| The regulation of natural gas : policy and politics, 1938-1978 by M. Elizabeth Sanders | 1982 |
| Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy: Autonomy vs. Control (Yale Studies in Political Science) by Robert A. Dahl | co-winner, 1983 |
| The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson | co-winner, 1983 |
| Technologies of Freedom (Belknap Press) by Ithiel de Sola Pool | 1984 |
| Protest is Not Enough by Rufus P. Browning | 1985 |
| Economic Statecraft by David Allen Baldwin | 1986 |
| American Trade Politics: Second Edition by I. M. Destler | co-winner, 1987 |
| Why We Lost the ERA by Jane J. Mansbridge | co-winner, 1987 |
| Political Ethics and Public Office by Dennis Thompson | 1988 |
| American Federalism and Public Policy: How the System Works by Thomas J. Anton | 1989 |
| Issue Evolution by Edward G. Carmines | co-winner, 1990 |
| The New Politics of Pornography by Donald Alexander Downs | co-winner, 1990 |
| The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of Government by James A. Morone | 1991 |
| The Logic of Delegation: Congressional Parties and the Appropriations Process (American Politics & Political Economy) by D. Roderick Kiewiet | 1992 |
| The administrative presidency revisited : public lands, the BLM, and the Reagan revolution by Robert F. Durant | 1993 |
| The Rebirth of Urban Democracy by Jeffrey M. Berry | 1994 |
| Dismantling the Welfare State?: Reagan, Thatcher and the Politics of Retrenchment (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Poli by Paul Pierson | 1995 |
| Why Parties?: The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America (American Politics and Political Economy Ser by John H. Aldrich | 1996 |
| Down from Bureaucracy by Joel F. Handler | 1997 |
| Reaching Beyond Race by Paul M. Sniderman | 1998 |
| Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy by Suzanne Mettler | 1999 |
| No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System by David Cole | 2000 |
| Presidents, Parties, and the State: A Party System Perspective on Democratic Regulatory Choice, 1884-1936 by Scott C. James | 2001 |
| The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928 by Daniel P. Carpenter | 2002 |
| Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America by Daniel J. Tichenor | 2003 |
| Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry by P. W. Singer | co-winner, 2004 |
| Democracy Defended (Contemporary Political Theory) by Gerry Mackie | co-winner, 2004 |
| After "Brown": The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation by Charles T. Clotfelter | co-winner, 2005 |
| Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to The War on Terrorism by Geoffrey R. Stone | co-winner, 2005 |
| Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe Vs. Liberal America by Jonas Pontusson | co-winner, 2006 |
| Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation by Suzanne Mettler | co-winner, 2006 |
| The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What Americans Want from Our Leaders but Don't Get (American Politics and Political Econo by Benjamin I. Page | 2007 |
| Affirmative Advocacy by Dara Z. Strolovitch | co-winner, 2008 |
| The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence by Frank R. Baumgartner | co-winner, 2008 |
| Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age by Larry M. Bartels | 2009 |
| The fifth freedom : jobs, politics, and civil rights in the United States, 1941-1972 by chenanthonys | co-winner, 2010 |
| The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America by Margot Canaday | co-winner, 2010 |
