Congratulations to Professor Aníbal Pérez-Liñán. His book Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall (co-authored with Scott Mainwaring) co-won the Best Book Award granted by the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association to the best book offering a comparative analysis of the origins, processes, and outcomes of democratization published in 2014.