James L. Barr Memorial Award, 1981, for the best paper of the year in Public Economics.

Duncan Black Prize for best paper, Public Choice, 1981 (with Kenneth A. Shepsle).

Heinz Eulau Award for the best paper in the American Political Science Review, 1987 (with Kenneth A. Shepsle).

Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, 1993-1994.

Mary Parker Follett Prize for the best paper in politics and history published in the previous year 1994 (with Charles Stewart).

Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the 1994 American Political Science Association Meeting (with Kenneth Schultz).

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1996-present.

Mary Parker Follett Prize for the best paper in political history published in 1998.