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From the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance.
The 2018 Giandomenico Majone Prize for the best paper by a junior scholar presented at the 7th Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, was awarded to Janina Grabs.
The Majone Prize Committee consisted of Graeme Hodges, Anne Meuwese and Colin Provost. The Committee was impressed by the high quality of all nine submitted papers. While some focused on theoretical contributions, others showcased novel and innovative methodologies. All papers dealt with important questions of regulatory governance.
Ultimately, the committee unanimously decided to award the prize to “The Effectiveness of Private Sustainability Governance: a Micro-Institutional Approach”, written by Janina Grabs, a Ph.D. candidate and research associate at the Institute of Political Science of Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Members of the committee agreed that the paper posed important questions on the effectiveness of private regulatory governance; the data collection effort was vast, yet conducted with precision and care; the methods were rigorous and the paper had a high level of real-world applicability. “Consequently, the paper makes a strong theoretical contribution to the broad field of regulatory governance and we are happy to award it the 2018 Majone Prize!”
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:
For the full list of previous prize winners, please see here.