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Nominations open: 8 February 2024.
Deadline for nominations: 17 May 2024.
Nominations for the Political Theory Prize 2024 prize are open.
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 separate PDF files:
- Formal nomination letters including book title and year of publication, and the rationale for nominating this book
- Book as a PDF file
Nominations of early career scholars are encouraged.
Eligibility
- The prize is open to political science scholars, 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 will be confirmed.