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Jean Blondel PhD Prize
Jean Blondel PhD Prize
In October 2003 the ECPR created its annual PhD prize for the best thesis
in Politics (broadly conceived to include International Relations,
Political Theory and Public Administration) awarded at a full
ECPR member institution. In 2005 the Prize was
named after ECPR founding father, Jean Blondel.
The PhD Prize links in with two other ECPR activities:
the biennial Graduate Conference, which alternates with the General Conference,
the first of which was held at the University of Essex in September 2006;
the ECPR Monographs series. Part of the remit of this series is the publication
of research monographs by new entrants to the profession that are based
on outstanding doctoral dissertations.
The PhD Prize is judged by a committee drawn from the editorial board of ECPR Press and
chaired by ECPR Press' co-editor, Dr Dario Castiglione, Department of Politics, University of Exeter.
In October 2003 the ECPR created its annual PhD prize for the best thesis
in Politics (broadly conceived to include International Relations,
Political Theory and Public Administration) awarded at a full
ECPR member institution. In 2005 the Prize was
named after ECPR founding father, Jean Blondel.