The ECPG Best Paper in Gender and Politics Award
The ECPG Best Paper in Gender and Politics Award is delivered by the ECPG to an outstanding paper presented within the Section on Gender and Politics at ECPR General Conferences and the European Conference on Gender and Politics. The field of gender and politics is broadly conceived to include any paper adopting a gender and/or sexuality studies perspective in political science, international relations, political theory and philosophy, research methods, public policy and public administration.
The 2017 ECPG Best Paper in Gender and Politics Award will be presented for the paper presented within the Section on Gender and Politics at the 2016 and 2017 ECPR General Conferences and the 2017 European Conference on Gender and Politics. The field of gender and politics is broadly conceived to include any paper adopting a gender and/or sexuality studies perspective in political science, international relations, political theory and philosophy, research methods, public policy and public administration.
2017 AWARD COMMITTEE: ECPG co-convenor (chair), Amanda Clayton (Vanderbilt University), Johanna Kantola (University of Helsinki), Tánia Verge (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT: The prize will be announced in December 2017
FREQUENCY OF AWARD: every 2 years. If it is deemed that no paper presented within the section on Gender and Politics at the ECPR General Conference or at the European Conference on Gender and Politics reaches an acceptable standard, the committee may decline to award the prize in any given biennium.
NOMINATION INSTRUCTIONS: The paper must have been presented within the section on Gender and Politics at the 2016 and 2017 ECPR General Conference or at the 2017 European Conference on Politics and Gender. Papers must be nominated by the discussant of the panel in which the paper was presented (or by the chair in case of discussant late cancelation with no replacement). Only one paper by panel can be nominated. Only outstanding papers that make a decisive contribution to the field of Gender and Politics shall be nominated for the award. To qualify, the paper should not be published and has to be written in English. Self-nomination is not accepted. There is no restriction regarding the academic affiliation or career stage of the paper’s author(s). There is no restriction regarding the number of author(s).
DEADLINES FOR NOMINATIONS:
2016 and 2017 ECPR General Conferences: 10 days after the end of the conference
2017 European Conference on Politics and Gender: 10 days after the end of the conference
Nomination shall include the nominated paper - formatted as PDF file - and indicate the panel and conference in which the paper was presented.
Nominations should be addressed to the three co-conveners of the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics (ecpg1234@gmail.com)
The 2017 ECPG Best Paper in Gender and Politics Award will be presented for the paper presented within the Section on Gender and Politics at the 2016 and 2017 ECPR General Conferences and the 2017 European Conference on Gender and Politics. The field of gender and politics is broadly conceived to include any paper adopting a gender and/or sexuality studies perspective in political science, international relations, political theory and philosophy, research methods, public policy and public administration.
2017 AWARD COMMITTEE: ECPG co-convenor (chair), Amanda Clayton (Vanderbilt University), Johanna Kantola (University of Helsinki), Tánia Verge (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT: The prize will be announced in December 2017
FREQUENCY OF AWARD: every 2 years. If it is deemed that no paper presented within the section on Gender and Politics at the ECPR General Conference or at the European Conference on Gender and Politics reaches an acceptable standard, the committee may decline to award the prize in any given biennium.
NOMINATION INSTRUCTIONS: The paper must have been presented within the section on Gender and Politics at the 2016 and 2017 ECPR General Conference or at the 2017 European Conference on Politics and Gender. Papers must be nominated by the discussant of the panel in which the paper was presented (or by the chair in case of discussant late cancelation with no replacement). Only one paper by panel can be nominated. Only outstanding papers that make a decisive contribution to the field of Gender and Politics shall be nominated for the award. To qualify, the paper should not be published and has to be written in English. Self-nomination is not accepted. There is no restriction regarding the academic affiliation or career stage of the paper’s author(s). There is no restriction regarding the number of author(s).
DEADLINES FOR NOMINATIONS:
2016 and 2017 ECPR General Conferences: 10 days after the end of the conference
2017 European Conference on Politics and Gender: 10 days after the end of the conference
Nomination shall include the nominated paper - formatted as PDF file - and indicate the panel and conference in which the paper was presented.
Nominations should be addressed to the three co-conveners of the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics (ecpg1234@gmail.com)
2015 Award Recipients
Winners of the 2015 ECPG Best Paper in Gender and Politics Award
Paper: The Symbolic Impact of Women's Representation on Citizens' Political Attitudes: Measuring the Effect Through Survey Experiments
Section: Power and Representation
Jury Report
This paper unpicks symbolic representation of women in an empirical quantitative investigation of what its impact is. The paper is a very sophisticated and innovative exploration of symbolic representation, responding to well documented difficulties in existing literature. It addresses methodological difficulties to the study symbolic representation, including citizens low knowledge of women’s levels of representation (e.g. due to the media’s presentation of politics and women in it) and incremental processes of change which make it difficult to identify causality. Responding to these difficulties the article takes an innovative experimental design and explores different effects of symbolic representation using vignettes to test various hypotheses in a comparative study of Spain and Portugal. Findings highlight the impact of the media in shaping perceptions of women in office, their impact in office and satisfaction with the political system. The study contributes to consolidating and advancing work on symbolic representation through a method that is just beginning to be used in gender and politics. In doing so it shows that our methods should be multiple and advocated on the grounds of what they offer to the research questions we pose. Taken together, this paper reflects ECPG's high standards of rigour and innovation.
2015 AWARD COMMITTEE: Rosalind Cavaghan (Radboud University Nijmegen), Sarah Childs (Bristol University), Amy Mazur (Washington State University), and Liza Mügge (University of Amsterdam, co-convener of the ECPR Standing Group)
- Tània Verge is Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). Her primary research interests lie in the intersection of gender with political representation and political parties.
- Ana Espírito-Santo (PhD, European University Institute, 2011) is an invited assistant professor at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute, Portugal), Department of Political Science & Public Policies. Her main current research interests are gender and politics, political representation and electoral systems.
- Nina Wiesehomeier is Lecturer in Politics at the Department of Political and Cultural Studies at Swansea University (UK). Her research interests revolve around executives, ideology and issues of political representation, political preferences, and political behavior.
Paper: The Symbolic Impact of Women's Representation on Citizens' Political Attitudes: Measuring the Effect Through Survey Experiments
Section: Power and Representation
Jury Report
This paper unpicks symbolic representation of women in an empirical quantitative investigation of what its impact is. The paper is a very sophisticated and innovative exploration of symbolic representation, responding to well documented difficulties in existing literature. It addresses methodological difficulties to the study symbolic representation, including citizens low knowledge of women’s levels of representation (e.g. due to the media’s presentation of politics and women in it) and incremental processes of change which make it difficult to identify causality. Responding to these difficulties the article takes an innovative experimental design and explores different effects of symbolic representation using vignettes to test various hypotheses in a comparative study of Spain and Portugal. Findings highlight the impact of the media in shaping perceptions of women in office, their impact in office and satisfaction with the political system. The study contributes to consolidating and advancing work on symbolic representation through a method that is just beginning to be used in gender and politics. In doing so it shows that our methods should be multiple and advocated on the grounds of what they offer to the research questions we pose. Taken together, this paper reflects ECPG's high standards of rigour and innovation.
2015 AWARD COMMITTEE: Rosalind Cavaghan (Radboud University Nijmegen), Sarah Childs (Bristol University), Amy Mazur (Washington State University), and Liza Mügge (University of Amsterdam, co-convener of the ECPR Standing Group)
