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The EPSR Early Careers Prize is awarded biennially to the best article by an early career scholar appearing in a volume of European Political Science Review (EPSR) published in the previous two years.
The prize is awarded for an article which produces inventive and momentous research on politics. The article must have been written by a scholar who is either pre-PhD or who has received their doctorate within five years of their article’s publication.
EPSR seeks to create a forum for innovative, path-breaking studies. It actively encourages scholars who have recently gained their PhDs to submit articles to the journal for consideration.
The Prize was first awarded in spring 2023, covering Volumes 13 and 14 of EPSR.
The Prize fund is £500 and is generously co-sponsored by EPSR’s publisher, Cambridge University Press.
In the context of the EPSR Early Careers Prize, we define ‘early career scholars’ as individuals who are either pre-PhD or who have received their doctorate within five calendrical years before the year of the volume in which their article appears.
Articles published on any subject by early career scholars are automatically eligible for consideration for the EPSR Early Careers Prize. This Prize is open to all, regardless of whether an individual is affiliated with an ECPR Member institution.
If an article is co-authored, all authors must fit the Prize’s criteria for the article to be deemed eligible for the Prize. Corresponding authors are asked to take responsibility for checking the eligibility of their co-authored article, though the Communications Coordinator has the right to ask for proof of eligibility from the authors prior to jury consideration.
ECPR Executive Committee Members and Editors are not eligible for this Prize.
The Jury is comprised of a Chair selected by the journal's Editors and two members of the EPSR Editorial Board.
The Jury for the 2023 prize was as follows:
The inaugural 2023 ESPR Early Careers Prize was awarded to Elif Naz Kayran (European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research) and Anna-Lena Nadler (Leiden University), for their article ‘Non-citizen voting rights and political participation of citizens: evidence from Switzerland’, published in EPSR Volume 14.
The winning article examines the extent to which local non-citizen voting rights policies influence the electoral participation dynamics between native citizens and those with an immigration background. The research shows two particularly relevant results. First, that electoral turnout is significantly higher in municipalities with non-citizens’ voting rights. Second, the observed increase in participation among citizens with immigration backgrounds is less likely to be linked to a competition for political influence, which is more likely to be the case with native citizens.
From our jury: The study opens important questions, which will have further repercussions for comparative political science on the transformation of democracy and hence represents an excellent piece of research for one of the issues at the heart of the ECPR community.
Our jury is also pleased to award an Honourable mention to 'Participatory processes and their outcomes: comparing assembly and popular vote decisions' by Alice el Wakil & Michael A Strebel. The article, which is also available in Open Access, tests the argument that assemblies lead to decisions that are more widely supported by participants than popular votes.