Spitz Prize

• 1988 – Joseph Raz for The Morality of Freedom
• 1989 – Richard E. Flathman for The Philosophy and Politics of Freedom
• 1990 – no award given
• 1991 – Robert A. Dahl for Democracy and Its Critics
• 1992 – Charles W. Anderson for Pragmatic Liberalism
• 1993 – William Galston for Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State
• 1994 – George Kateb for The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic
• 1995 – John Rawls for Political Liberalism
• 1996 – William E. Scheuerman for Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law
• 1997 – Mark Kingwell for A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism
• 1998 – John Dryzek for Democracy in Capitalist Times: Ideals, Limits, and Struggles
• 1999 – Richard Dagger for Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism
• 2000 – no award given
• 2001 – Thomas A. Spragens, Jr. for Civic Liberalism: Reflections on Our Democratic Ideals
• 2002 – no award given
• 2003 – Mark E. Warren for Democracy and Association
• 2004 – Nadia Urbinati for Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government
• 2005 – Ira Katznelson for Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust
• 2006 – Sheldon S. Wolin for Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought
• 2007 – George Klosko for Political Obligations
• 2008 – Martha Nussbaum for Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership
• 2009 – Richard Bellamy for Political Constitutionalism: a Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy
• 2010 – Sharon Krause for Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation
• 2011 – Murray Milgate and Shannon C. Stimson for After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy
• 2012 – Paul Weithman for Why Political Liberalism?: On John Rawls's Political Turn
• 2013 – John P. McCormick for Machiavellian Democracy
• 2014 – Philip Pettit for On The People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy
• 2015 – Hélène Landemore for Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many
• 2016 – Melissa Schwartzberg for Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule
• 2017 – Wendy Brown for Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
• 2018 – Tommie Shelby for Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform