Francesco Kjellberg Award for Outstading Papers Presented by New Scholars

The purpose of the Francesco Kjellberg Award is to encourage new, young scholars to write and present papers at the World Congress. The recipient is offered a complimentary three-year IPSA membership and travel costs to the following World Congress. The award is made on the recommendation of the committee on awards on the basis of nominations by convenors and chairs at the world congress, and is based on normal criteria of academic excellence. 

Nominations for the award must be made by convenors or panel chairs and must include:
1. A letter of recommendation from the chair or convenor indicating that the candidate fulfills the criteria and is worthy of an award;
2. The curriculum vitae of the author;
3. Four copies of the congress paper.

The following are the criteria for the award:
1. Candidates must be new scholars, not more than five years after completion of a Ph.D., or at the beginning of an equivalent active academic career, at the time of presenting the paper;
2. The paper must be original, unpublished and presented personally by candidate at the congress;
3. The paper must be outstanding and worthy of publication in a leading political science journal.

Convenors and chairs are invited to send their nominations at the IPSA Secretariat at  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it by June 26th, 2009.

This Award is given in honor of distinguished Norwegian political scientist Francesco Kjellberg. His implication within the IPSA spanned over more than 20 years. He was secretary of the Research Committee on Comparative Study of Local Government and Politics (RC-05) from 1976-79, member of the IPSA executive committee form 1979-85, program chair of the 13th  IPSA World Congress (Paris 1985), and assumed the role of IPSA Secretary General from 1988 to 1994. He was also secretary of the Norwegian Political Science Association and taught at Oslo University. He died of cancer in March of 1998.

PAST WINNERS:

2000 Charles Gomes, IUPERJ (Brazil).
Paper : L’effet de la culture juridique sur la politique d’immigration en France et aux États-Unis

1997 Eui-Young Kim, University of Michigan (USA).
Paper : The Business Interest Association and the Political Economy of Development in South Korea

1994 Susan Dicklich, University of South Carolina (USA)
Paper : The Democratization of Uganda under the NRM Regime

1988 Peter Wagner, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin (Germany)
Paper : Social Science and the State in Continental Western Europe - the political structuratrion of disciplinary discourse

1988 Zehra Arat, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY (USA)
Paper : Human rights trade-offs in developing countries : a comparative study of declining democracies

No Award was given in 1991, 2003 and 2006