Joint Sessions of Workshops . This can be a co-authored Paper, under certain circumstances. The award for this prize is £900.
Nomination information will be sent directly to Workshop Directors, who are welcome to nominate ONE Paper from their Workshop for this prize.
Nominations open: Friday 23 May 2025
Eligibility
Nominees must work or study at any ECPR Member institution
Nominees must be pre-PhD or within 5 years of receiving it
Co-authored papers are acceptable, under the following conditions:
The majority of authors are from Member institutions
All co-authors are pre-PhD or within 5 years, or
If a senior scholar is involved, it is clarified that the junior/s took the leading role.
Exclusions
Self-nominations are not accepted
Candidates holding roles with the ECPR as EC Members, Director, or Editors will not be considered
Workshop directors are not eligible
Document submission requirements:
To nominate, please submit a copy of the paper along with the following details:
The full name of the author/s and their email address Their affiliated institution If they have been awarded their PhD (and relevant dates) or if they are currently undertaking it The title of the Paper The title of the Workshop in which the Paper was presented The rationale for nominating the Paper for the prize Jury
This prize is judged by a jury consisting of members of our Executive Committee and editors of some of our journals.
The 2025 prize jury is comprised of:
Christian Haerpfer , Executive Committee Member, University of Vienna (Chair )Nicole Curato , University of Birmingham, EJPRTheofanis Exadaktylos , University of Surrey, EPSRGulsah Capan , University of Erfurt, EJIRMarta Lorimer , Cardiff University, PRX
Further questions? Email prizes@ecpr.eu
2024 - Timon Forster
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Economics and Political Science, University of St Gallen.
Selective responses to the climate crisis: International financial institutions and strategic ignorance is Timon's groundbreaking paper which applies several cutting-edge text analysis methods to systematically attract and figure out how IFIs communicate about climate change issues.
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2023 - Kathleen Brown
IMF survival instincts: risk exposure and the design of loan programs PhD Candidate, Departments of Political Science and Public Administration, Leiden University.
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ECPR Lifetime Achievement Award 2024
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2022 - Nir Kosti
Conceptualization and Measurement of Regulatory Discretion: Text Analysis of 120 Years of British Legislation PhD Candidate, Political Science Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Fellow of the Advanced Graduate Studies Program ('Telem') and the Center for Interdisciplinary Data Science Research (CIDR) at the Hebrew University.
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2021 - Paul Meiners
Information and Motivation – How Do Attitudes towards International Organizations Develop? Research Associate, Institute of Political Science, University of Münster.
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2020
This prize was not awarded in 2020 due to disruptions to the Joint Sessions.
2019 - Tobias Widmann
How Emotional Are Populists Really? Factors Determining Explicity Emotional Appeals in Political Communication European University Institute.
2018 - Philipp Lutz
Dynamic Partisan Effects in Migration University of Geneva.
2017 - Dorothee Riese
Negotiating Secrecy: How Parliament and Executive Debate the Possibilities and Limits of Executive Secrecy FernUniversität in Hagen.
2016 - Viviane Gravey
Environmental Policy Dismantling in the EU: Disintegration by Stealth or Saviour of Integration? Queen's University Belfast.
2015 - Carina Schmitt
The Legacy of Colonialism: The Origins of Social Security in Developing Countries Universität Bremen.
2014 - Michal Parízek
International Organisations' Quest for Information: The Politics of Secretariat Staffing Charles University.
2013 - Sebastian Ziaja
Diversity Trumps Quantity: Types of foreign aid, donor fragmentation and democratisation GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences.
2012 - Jack Blumenau
Agenda Control and Party Cohesion in the European Parliament University of Oxford.
2011 - Armen Hakhverdian
The Causal Flow between Public Opinion and Policy University of Oxford.
2010 - Abel Escribà-Folch
Authoritarian Responses to Foreign Policy Pressure: Spending, Repressions and Sanctions
2009 - Johannes Lindvall
Coalition Governments and Reform Capacity
2008 - Imke Harbers
Decentralization as a Condition of Party System Nationalization: Evidence from Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe
2007 - Rune Stubager
The Development of the Education Cleavage at the Electoral Level in Denmark: A Dynamic Analysis
2006 - Kasper M. Hansen
The Equality Paradox of Deliberative Democracy: Evidence from a National Deliberative Poll
2005 – Martin Hering
Retrenchment without Retribution:
2004 - Lesley Hustinx
Beyond the Tyranny of the New? An Explanatory Model of Styles of Flemish Red Cross Volunteering
2003 - Zsolt Enyedi
Cleavage Formation in Hungary: A New Look at Group Formation Processes
2002 - José Fernández-Albertos
Why Is There No Compensation? Trade Liberalization in Latin America, 1975–1995
2001 - Hanna Bäck
Coalition Formation and the Inclusion of Green Parties in Swedish Local Government
The Rudolf Wildenmann Prize is awarded annually to an early career scholar (before PhD or within five years of receiving their PhD) in recognition of an outstanding Paper presented at the Joint Sessions of Workshops. This can be a co-authored Paper, under certain circumstances. The award for this prize is £900.
