Nolan McCarty, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton SPIA, has won the Mac Jewell Enduring Contribution Award for the article “The Ideological Mapping of State Legislatures,” which he co-published with Boris Shor, an associate professor of political science at the University of Houston, in The American Political Science Review in 2011. The award, given by the State Politics & Policy section of the American Political Science Association, recognizes a piece of scholarly work on the subject of U.S. state politics or policy that was published at least 10 years ago and has made an enduring contribution to the literature.

“I am deeply honored to receive the Jewell Award. This recognition affirms the lasting relevance of our work on understanding the ideological landscape of state legislatures, a project that continues to shape how the study of political polarization and representation at the state level,” McCarty said.