Awards - Prize of the Foundation Mattei Dogan awarded by the International Political Science Association for High Achievement in Political Science

The Prize of the Foundation Mattei Dogan awarded by the International Political Science Association for High Achievement in Political Science is offered to a scholar of high international reputation in recognition of his/her contribution to the advancement of political science. The prize is awarded at every IPSA World Congress of Political Science.

The recipient for 2012 will be invited to present a prize lecture during the 22nd IPSA World Congress of Political Science in Madrid, Spain, and will receive 5,000 USD from the Foundation Mattei Dogan.

Guidelines for applications

Nominations for the prize can be made by one of the following four ways:
a)jointly by two or several national associations of IPSA;
b)jointly by two or several IPSA Research Committees;
c)jointly by four or more IPSA members in good standing of at least two different nationalities;
d)from outside IPSA, by established academic institutions active in political science.

Nominations must indicate the merits of the nominee and be accompanied by his/her biography and bibliography. The propositions should also include letters of recommendation, signed by eminent scholars, as well as a report about citations of the nominee in the Social Science Citation Index during the previous 15 years.

Nomination will be accepted until January 15, 2012.

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

The prize recipient is chosen by the IPSA Executive Committee, by secrete ballot, among the nominees proposed as indicated above.  The final choice is the prerogative of the IPSA Executive Committee.  Current officers of the IPSA Executive Committee and of the Council, as well as the officers of the Research Committees are not eligible for this award.  Former IPSA officers become eligible four years after the end of their last mandate.

Recipients

2009

Prof. Philippe Schmitter
European University Institute

See the Prize of the Foundation Mattei Dogan Lecture at the 2009 IPSA World Congress of Political Science in Santiago, Chile: http://videolectures.net/ipsa09_schmitter_mdal/

2006

Prof. Guillermo O'Donnell
Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre-Dame, USA