Awards - Global South Award

Established to recognize the work done by a scholar from the Global South, and whose scholarly contribution is focused on the relevant countries/ regions/ themes. This award also recognizes cumulative body of work. It was awarded for the first time at the 2009 World Congress of Political Science.

The recipient for 2012 will be invited to present a prize lecture during the 22nd World Congress of Political Science in Madrid, Spain, and will receive US$1000.

Guidelines for applications

Applicants for the award are expected to submit:
1. a curriculum vitae,
2. a statement of the nature of the research project and an indication as to how it is of significance to the Global South;
3. a letter of reference from an academic familiar with the applicant’s work certifying his or her academic status and indicating his or her suitability for the award;
4. a representative sample of written work whose length should not be greater than a scientific journal article;

The committee on awards will assess candidates’ written work.

Nominations are to be sent:

By email: A PDF copy by email to the attention of Guy Lachapelle, the IPSA Secretary General, to: awards@ipsa.org

Or

By mail: A printed copy by mail (along with a PDF copy) to:

Guy Lachapelle
Secretary General
International Political Science Association (IPSA)
1590, av. Docteur-Penfield, bureau 331
Montréal (QC) H3G 1C5
Canada

Nomination will be accepted until January 15, 2012.

Global South Award Recipients

2009

Yogendra Yadav, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi (India)

Perhaps the leading political anlayst in India and the co-author of a forthcoming book with Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan entilted State Nation or Nation State?. He is the co-author of State of Democracy in South Asia (Oxford University Press, 2008) and of a large number of books and articles on Indian electoral behavior and public opinion, and was Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2009-10.