Awards – Meisel-Laponce Award
The Meisel-Laponce Award was created by the International Political Science Review (IPSR) to honor John Meisel and Jean Laponce, the first two editors of IPSR.
The prize is awarded at every second World Congress of Political Science to the best article published in IPSR in the previous four years. The first award will be given at the IPSA World Congress in Madrid in July 2012.
The prize of USD1000 is jointly sponsored by the International Political Science Association and SAGE Publications.
John Meisel
Of Czech origin, John Meisel is the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Queen’s University. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada, a former President of the Royal Society of Canada and a one-time Chair of the Canadian Radio and Telecommunication Commission of Canada. Except for Visiting Professorships at Yale and in the UK, he spent his whole academic life at Queen’s where he pioneered studies of elections and political parties, the role of government in the arts, the politics of regulation and challenges to national cohesion. He was the founding editor of The Canadian Journal of Political Science and of The International Political Science Review. Teaching, research, writing and nature have been his passions and he finds it hard not to get involved in issues affecting the common weal. He can be reached at meiselj@queensu.ca .
Jean Laponce
Born in Decize sur Loire, Jean Laponce studied at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and at the University of California, Los Angeles. He teached at the University of British Columbia where he is now an Emeritus Professor. He also teached at University of Ottawa and at the University Aiki Shukutoku in Nagoya. Member of the IPSA Executive Committee from 1966 to 1972, he was President from 1973 to 1976. He joined John Meisel to co-edit the journal IPSR in 1985. He is the author of The Protection of Minorities, 1961; The Government of France under the Fifth Republic, 1962, People vs Politics, 1970; Left and Right, 1981; Languages and Their Territories, 1984; Loi de Babel et autres régularités des rapports entre langue et politique, 2006; Le Référendum de Souveraineté, 2010. He established, with Jean Gottmann, the IPSA Research Committee 15 - Political and Cultural Geography. He also created the IPSA Research Committee 50 - Language and Politics.
Nominations
The editors nominated what were in their opinion the six best papers published in IPSR since the previous IPSA World Congress in 2009. With the help of IPSR's Editorial Board, the editors will select the best article.
IPSR’s homepage (http://ips.sagepub.com/) provides a link to the articles nominated for the Award and SAGE provide open access to the articles.
The recipient(s) of the Award is announced in an issue of IPSR and the award is given at a reception hosted by SAGE at every two IPSA World Congresses of Political Science.
Meisel-Laponce Award Recipients
2011
Jørgen Møller and Svend-Erik Skaaning, “Beyond the Radial Delusion: Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy and Non-democracy”, International Political Science Review, 31:3 (2010).
Jørgen Møller holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2007), and he is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interests include conceptualization of democracy, post-communist political change, comparative historical analysis of democratization and state formation, and qualitative methodology.
Svend-Erik Skaaning holds a PhD from the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University (2007), where he is currently associate professor. His research interests include the conceptualization and measurement of democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law, political regime change, state capacity, and comparative methodology.
