2018 Regulatory Studies Development Award winner

From the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance

Professor Aseem Prakash has been awarded the 2018 Standing Group Award for Regulatory Studies Development, which bestows recognition on a senior scholar for outstanding contributions to the development of regulation and governance studies. The 2018 award was a piece of sculpture crafted in 6,000 year old Irish bog oak by artist Michael Casey, entitled ‘The Salmon of Knowledge’.

Aseem Prakash has been a leading innovator in the fields of environmental regulation, private governance, and nonprofit accountability. He is Professor of Political Science, the Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Founding Director of the Center for Environmental Politics at University of Washington, Seattle.Aseem is the author of Greening the Firm: the Politics of Corporate Environmentalism (Cambridge, 2000), the co-author of The Voluntary Environmentalists: Green Clubs, ISO 14001, and Voluntary Environmental Regulations (Cambridge, 2006), and a co-editor of numerous edited volumes. In addition to guest-editing several journal symposia, he has published in leading journals of political science, international relations, public policy, legal studies, nonprofit studies, and business. 

He is also the General Editor of Cambridge University Press Series in Business and Public Policy and the Associate Editor of Business & Society, and he serves on the editorial board of several journals including Regulation & Governance, Public Administration Review, International Studies Quarterly, and Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

Aseem is a member of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and the Medicine's Board on Environmental Change and Society. He is also an International Research Fellow at the Center for Corporate Reputation, University of Oxford, and serves on the Economic Development Commission of the city of his residence: Edmonds, Washington.

Aseem Prakash was elected to the position of the Vice President of the International Studies Association for the period, 2015-2016. His awards include the International Studies Association International Political Economy Section's 2019 Distinguished Scholar Award that recognizes "outstanding senior scholars whose influence and path-breaking intellectual work will continue to impact the field for years to come" as well as the Association's 2018 James N. Rosenau Award for a "scholar who has made the most important contributions to globalization studies."

About the award

Focusing on senior scholars and complementing the Giandomenico Majone Prize, the Standing Group Award for Regulatory Studies Development bestows recognition on a senior scholar for outstanding contributions to the development of regulation and governance studies.

This may include promoting a new teaching initiative, opening a new research sub field, delivering crucial publications or making a significant public contribution to the field (i.e., a large dataset, a new RIA technique).

More information on the nomination and selection procedure can be found in the Regulations of the Standing Group Award for Regulatory Studies Development.

The previous winners of the Award are:

• 2018: Aseem Prakash
• 2016: Julia Black
• 2014: David Levi-Faur

For the full list of previous prize winners, please see here.