2008 Giandomenico Majone Prize

From the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance.

The Standing Group on Regulatory Governance awarded its first Giandomenico Majone Prize to John Mikler for his paper "Domestic Liberalisation as Global Regulation: the Cases of Fuel Economy and Online Gambling Regulations", given at the 2nd Biennial Conference held at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

John is a lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, Australia. Although he is an early career researcher, John has around ten years experience in policy development and implementation through several positions with the Australian Commonwealth Public Service.

The Prize Committee was chaired by Claudio Radaelli and included Markus Haverland and Jarle Trondal. 

The Committee considering that John's paper "proposes a fresh and original approach to the theme of the conference, criticising some blunt statements made by political scientists on the advent of 'neoliberalism' and 'globalisation'. Blending different theoretical inspirations, John Mikler provides evidence from two great case studies to support his arguments". The Prize Committee found that this paper is by far the most exciting among those submitted for the Majone Prize in terms of blending theory and empirical evidence.

About the award

The Prize is in honour of Giandomenico Majone for his outstanding contribution to the study of regulatory governance in the European Union and beyond.

It recognizes exceptional research presented at the Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance. The Prize addresses scholars in their early career stages, e.g. colleagues who have completed their Ph.D. no more than seven years prior to nomination, and is preferably awarded to single-authored papers. The submissions are assessed by a jury, based on the academic merit of the paper. This includes the relevance and development of the research question, the contribution that the article makes to existing scientific knowledge or theory in the field of regulatory governance, the use of sources, the methodological rigor, the quality of the analysis and the conclusions.

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