Nomination Deadline Extended to 30 November for Select 2027 IPSA Awards

The nomination deadline for the 2027 IPSA Awards has been extended to 30 November 2026! We hope this extension will allow you to submit nominations for those who have made outstanding contributions to political science.

IPSA confers several prestigious awards, presented at the IPSA World Congresses, that recognize outstanding contributions to political science and include a monetary prize. 

Extended Deadline: 30 November 2026

IPSA national and regional political associations are invited to submit nominations for the following awards: the Prize of the Foundation Mattei Dogan and the Karl Deutsch Award.

Nominations for these awards can be submitted in one of the following ways:

1. by a national association of IPSA;
2. by an IPSA Research Committee (RC);
3. jointly by two or more IPSA members in good standing of at least two different nationalities;
4. by an incumbent IPSA Executive Committee (EC) member;
5. from outside IPSA, by established academic institutions active in political science.

Academic institutions (universities, departments, research centers, professional associations, and academies) are invited to submit nominations for the Kim Dae-jung Award.

Upcoming Award Deadlines

Publishers may submit nominations for the APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award by 16 December 2026.

Individual applications for the  IPSA Guillermo O’Donnell Award for Latin American Scholars, the Margaret A. Vogt Award for Global South Scholars, and the Stein Rokkan Travel Grant Award must be submitted by 1 March 2027. 

For more information, please visit the IPSA Awards page.