Chris Carter and coauthor Anna Callis were awarded the Founders Award for Best Paper by the Presidents and Executive Politics Section. The Founders Award honoring Peri Arnold is given for the best paper on executive politics authored by a PhD holding scholar presented at the previous year’s annual meeting. The paper for which they won, Balancing Bossism: State Expansion in the Face of Elite Capture, is forthcoming at the American Journal of Political Science. A public facing description can be found here: https://ajps.org/2025/08/13/balancing-bossism-state-expansion-in-the-face-of-elite-capture/.