2014 inaugural Regulatory Studies Development Award winner

From the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance

Professor David Levi-Faur was the first recipient of the 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. He has made successful efforts to create an academic regulatory governance community, as exemplified by his initiative to co-found the ECPR Standing Group on Regulation and Governance in 2005, and looks back on highly impactful research initiatives.

David Levi-Faur is a professor at the Federmann School of Public Policy and the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Together with John Braithwaite and Cary Coglianese he was the founding editor of the successful Wiley-Blackwell journal Regulation & Governance. He has held research and teaching positions at the University of Haifa, the University of Oxford, the Australian National University, the University of Manchester and the Free University of Berlin as well as visiting positions at the London School of Economics, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Utrecht and the University of California at Berkeley.

His numerous and much-cited publications include special issues of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Capitalism, co-edited with Jacint Jordana) and Governance (Varieties of Regulatory Capitalism) and editorships of the Oxford Handbook of Governance (Oxford University Press, 2012) and The Handbook of the Politics of Regulation (Edward Elgar, 2011). Together with Avishai Benish he is editing the working paper series Jerusalem Papers in Regulation & Governance.

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.

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