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Website: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ECpR/funding/prizes/phd_prize.aspx Each year the ECPR gives its PhD prize for the best thesis in Politics (broadly conceived to include International Relations, Political Theory and Public Administration) awarded at a full ECPR member institution. The thesis must have been examined and been deemed to have passed between 1st September 2006 and 31st August 2007. However, the doctorate need not have been officially conferred during this period. Each ECPR full member institution can nominate no more than ONE candidate for the prize. The candidacy must come via the ECPR Official Representative or the Head of Department. Only full member institutions can nominate candidates for the prize, and the thesis nominated must have been submitted at the institution concerned. FOUR printed copies of the thesis must be sent by 31 January 2008 to Rebecca Knappett at Central Services (address below). Proof of the date of posting should be retained, as entries post marked after this date will be deemed ineligible. In the case of multivolume dissertations, only a single 'stand-alone' volume should be submitted. Submissions involving more than one volume will not be considered. No electronic submissions will be accepted. However, an electronic version of the thesis must be available on request. The topic of the thesis should fit broadly within the field of political science. For example, work on political economy should draw substantially on the relevant political science literature as well as on any economics literature, and work on comparative constitutions should draw substantially on the relevant literature from political science as well as from law, and so on. The thesis should be accompanied by an expanded 15-page abstract in English outlining the main arguments of the work. The abstract should outline the subject of the thesis, its main findings and arguments, as well as its principal conclusions. The table of contents, also in English, should be submitted with the abstract; both documents will be employed for an initial sifting of the theses (the prize committee will normally shortlist five theses at this stage) and therefore must be sent by e-mail to Rebecca Knappett at Central Services (rknapp (non Essex users add '@essex.ac.uk')) at the same time as the posting of hard copies. Shortlisted theses written in languages other than English will first be read by a specialist in the field. Should they feel the thesis is a strong candidate for the Prize, the ECPR will pay for up to 20,000 words to be translated into English, so that it can be judged equally by the panel. Should a non-English language thesis be awarded the Prize and be published in the ECPR Monographs series, the full cost of the translation will be split 50/50 between the ECPR and the candidate or their institution. The award will be given to the thesis that the Committee believes will make the best research monograph in a political science book series. Although many theses contain material that could be published as outstanding articles, the ECPR already awards the Wildenmann prize for the best paper by a young scholar at the Joint Sessions. The criterion for this prize is that, with suitable amendments, the thesis would make an outstanding book that addresses central themes in the relevant subfield(s) of the discipline and hence would be suitable for inclusion in the ECPR's Monographs series, which is published in English. However, the successful thesis will not necessarily be offered a contract with the book series, and no candidate is under any obligation to accept such a contract if offered it. The winner of the prize will be announced on 30 June 2008. If it deems that no thesis reaches an acceptable standard, the committee may decline to award the prize in any given year. The successful candidate will be awarded a prize of 1000 euro. Candidates will give a presentation of their thesis and receive their prize at the ECPR's autumn conference. Expenses to attend the prize giving will be paid for by the ECPR, which will arrange travel and accommodation. The PhD Prize is judged by a committee drawn from the editorial board of ECPR Press and chaired by the series co-editor, Professor Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot of Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux. Send the expanded abstract and four hard copies of the thesis, along with a letter of nomination from the ECPR Official Representative or Head of Department to: Contact information: |
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