2010 Giandomenico Majone Prize

From the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance.

The Standing Group on Regulatory Governance awarded the 2010 Giandomenico Majone Prize to Hanan Haber for his paper "Regulating-for-Welfare: a Comparative Study of 'Regulatory Welfare Regimes' in the Israeli, British and Swedish Electricity Sectors", presented at the 3rd Biennial Conference held at the University College Dublin, Ireland. Hanan is a doctoral student in the School of Public Policy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

The Prize Committee included Per Lægreid, Bronwen Morgan and Kutsal Yesilkagit.

Among the nominated papers, this one scores best overall on theoretical, methodological and empirical issues. Haber addresses the impact of the state's welfare policy tradition on the design of new regulatory regimes and on the emergence of what the author calls "regulatory welfare regimes". It is a coherent and well-written paper with a thorough research design. Above all it is comparative. Haber has a good command of the relevant literature and carries out a well done theoretical informed analysis. He integrates welfare state theory in really interesting ways with the regulatory capitalism literature and uses comparative case studies to good effect to support the argument. The finding is interesting and somewhat surprising. The paper represents a promising line of research that makes an important contribution to regulatory governance research.

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.

The previous winners of the award are:

• 2008: John Mikler

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