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The Hans Daalder Prize
The ECPR, in recognition of Professor Hans Daalder, one of the founding fathers of the ECPR, has instituted
the Daalder prize. This prize is an award of €1,000 for an outstanding paper presented at the ECPR Graduate
conference.
We are asking participants at the 2008 Conference to nominate a paper that they thought was outstanding both
in terms of its originality and its academic excellence. The papers nominated will be reviewed by the Academic
Convenors of the conference. The winner of the Daalder prize will be announced on the ECPR website and the
prize will be presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Lisbon 2009.
Nomination procedure
To nominate a paper, please email the ecpr (ecpr@essex.ac.uk) with the name of the paper giver and the paper title.
Each nomination must be supported by two conference participants. You cannot nominate your own paper. Nominations
will only be accepted for papers for which electronic copies were submitted to the conference. The deadline for
nominating a paper is 15 October 2008.
Professor Hans Daalder
Hans Daalder (1928) was Professor of Political Science at Leiden University in the Netherlands from 1963 to 1993.
He was one of the eight founders of the European Consortium of Political Research in 1970 and followed its first
Chairman Stein Rokkan as Chairman from 1976 to 1979 while he served as the first Head of the Department of Political
and Social Sciences of the newly established European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He organised four
one-month Summer Schools on Comparative European Politics in Florence from 1979-1982 which brought major scholars
in that field together with young university lecturers throughout Western Europe.
His major publications have been on Dutch, British and comparative politics, with a particular emphasis on
processes of democratisation and parties and party systems, on Marxism and nationality, and on problems of
university government. He served on the ECPR Executive until 1988. As a result of a workshop he organized
during the Joint Sessions of the ECPR held at Leiden when he left the Leiden Chair in 1993, he edited Comparative
European Politics. The Story of a Profession (London and Washington: Pinter, 1997; new paperback edition 1999),
which brings together four intellectual biographies and twenty-three intellectual autobiographies of leading
European and American scholars in the field of comparative politics.
Since his retirement he has worked mainly on a multi-volume political biography of Willem Drees, the leading
Socialist Prime Minister prime minister in post-war Holland, whose political life covered the larger part of
the 20th century, until he died in 1988 almost 102 years old.
2008 Prize Winners
The joint winners of the first Hans Daalder Prize are Mette Bakken & Didac Queralt for their outstanding papers presented
at the ECPR Graduate Conference which was held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2008. It will be presented by Hans Daalder.
Mette Bakken holds an M.Phil. in comparative politics from Bergen University (Norway) and is currently a
PhD student at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy).
Her primary research interest lies within the area of electoral systems design and more specifically electoral
system effects and electoral system reform. Previously she has undertaken comparative studies in the area both
in the African and Eastern European regions. Her PhD thesis will look into and systematise the various theoretical
explanations for electoral system reform and analyse their empirical relevance in a global perspective.
Since May 2008, Ms. Bakken has also been engaged with the EC-UNDP Joint Task Force on Electoral Assistance office in Brussels.
Didac Queralt is a PhD candidate at New York University. He earned a BA in Political Science at University
Pompeu Fabra in 2004. He received an MA in Social Sciences at the Juan March Institute in 2006, an MA in
Political Science and Sociology from University Pompeu Fabra in 2007, and an MPhil in Politics from New
York University in 2009. Currently, he is a Fulbright - Fundacion Ramos Areces fellow.
His main field of research is Political Economy. His dissertation analyses the political determinants of
barriers to economic growth, and its distributive consequences. Recently, he has completed research on
strategic voting in non-majoritarian electoral systems in young democracies across Eastern Europe.
He also follows a research agenda on swing voting in national Spanish elections.
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