Political Theory Prize

Nominations open: 8 February 2024.
Deadline for nominations: 31 May 2024.

Submitting a nomination 

To nominate, please email two formal nomination letters to prizes@ecpr.eu. The letters must come from academics based in two different countries, who must be affiliated with ECPR Member institutions (Full or Associate).

Nominations must include, as two or three separate PDF files:

• PDF 1: Book as a PDF file
• PDF 2/3: Formal nomination letters from two academics as stated above, each of which including book title and year of publication, and the rationale for nominating the book

Nominations of early career scholars are encouraged.

Eligibility

• The prize is open to scholars in political science and related fields (for example: political theory, political philosophy), regardless of institutional membership.
• This must be the candidate's first book in English in political theory.
• Entries must be published in the two years before the year of award (i.e. in 2022 and 2023, for the 2024 prize application).
• Each book can only be nominated for this prize once.

Exclusions

• Self-nominations are not accepted.
• Nominations from publishers and agencies are not accepted.
• Members of the ECPR Executive Committee, ECPR Director, or Editors of any ECPR books, journals or blog are not eligible for this prize during their terms in office.
  • Members of the Executive Committee and the Director become eligible after three buffer years, and editors after one.
  • The requirement that a work have been published in the previous two years may be waived in this case.

Prize Jury

Eligible nominations are reviewed by a jury comprised of a member of the Executive Committee acting as Chair, a member from each founding Political Theory Standing Group, a convenor of the Methodology section and a senior editor from the journal Contemporary Political Theory (CPT). 

2024 Jury 

The full jury for the 2024 jury comprises:

• Ladislav Cabada, Chair, ECPR Executive Committee Member
• Diana Popescu, University of Nottingham, Representative from the Standing Group on Political Theory
• Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Syracuse Unviersity, Representative from Journal of Contemporary Political Theory
• Avia Pasternak, University of Toronto, Representative from the Standing Group on International Political Theory
• Zachary Vereb, University of Mississippi, Representative from the Standing Group on Kantian Political Thought
• Nahshon Perez, Bar Ilan University, Representative from convenors of the ECPR General Conference Section on Methodology of Political Theory