1. Aim
The purpose of this award is to support the comparative research studies in the CEE region. Therefore, the winner of the award receives a financial donation .
2. Description of Award
On the
19thNISPAcee Annual Conference in Varna, Bulgaria, in 2011 was for the first time announced the Award for the the Best Comparative Paper. This award was created by NISPAcee with cooperation of
JCPA/ICPA-Forum (International Comparative Policy Analysis-Forum) affiliated with Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (JCPA). In affiliation with the ICPA-Forum, the JCPA is published five times per year and is the only explicit comparative journal of policy analytic studies. The Aims and Scope of the JCPA defining comparative policy scholarship can be found at:
http://www.jcpa.ca/
3. Submission Process
First 3 year of announcing of the award the submission of the papers for the award was manage by working group coordinators. From the 22nd NISPAcee Annual Conference in Budapest will be incorporated in Application for Paper Proposal.
4. Award Committee
A Joint Adjudication Committee comprised of NISPAcee and ICPA-Forum representatives will evaluate submissions.
Co-Chairs of the Joint Adjudication Committee:
Prof. Iris Geva-May
Founding Editor-in-Chief (JCPA) and Chair (ICPA-Forum) Simon Fraser University - Vancouver, Canada
Prof. Tiina Randma-Liiv
Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Prof. B. Guy Peters
Pittsburg University, USA
Prof. Juraj Nemec
Matej Bel University, Slovakia
5. Eligibility criteria
All comparative papers involving at least one country in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and presented at a NISPAcee Annual Conference, will be eligible for the Award.
6. Announcement of Award
The award is 500 USD to the author(s) and is underwritten by the publisher, Routledge: Oxford, UK.
In addition, the winner(s) will receive a Certificate acknowledging their contribution to comparative scholarship, and the winning paper will be published in the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (JCPA) following an expedited triple blind-fold review process.
AWARDS
AWARD 2023
Was presented by a member of the Award Selection Committee Juraj Nemec to the winner: Jozef Kucera, University of Matej Bel, Faculty of Economics, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. For the paper: "Comparative Analysis of The Sports´ Public Funding Systems Effectivity in The European Union".
AWARD 2022
Presented at the 30th NISPAcee Annual Conference 2022 to Vincent Mabillard, Free University of Brussels, Belgium by members of the Award Selection Committee Juraj Nemec and Tiina Randma.
Paper: Social media use in Central and Eastern European cities: Defining government-citizen relationships through phases
Authors: Raphaėl Zumofen, Vincent Mabillard, Martial Pasquier
AWARD 2021
Katarína Staroňová, Comenius University, Slovakia
Marek Rybár, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Paper: Still Hiding in the Shadows? Political Advisers in Central and Eastern Europe
AWARD 2019
Ringa Raudla, Tallinn University of Technology, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance
James W. Douglas, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jason H. Windett, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Paper: Financial bureaucracies of Europe: Finance Officers’Attitudes Regarding their Responsibilities and Roles
AWARD 2018
Ringa Raudla, Egert Juuse, Aleksandrs Cepilovs, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Paper: Policy Learning from Crisis in Financial Regulation and Supervision: Overcoming Coordination Challenges?
and
Paweł Swianiewicz and Anna Kurniewicz, Department for Local Development and Policy, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland and Desislava Kalcheva, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Paper: The Political Business Cycle in Policies of Tariffs for Local Public Services: A Comparison of Poland and Bulgaria
AWARD 2017
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, Tallinn University of
Technology, Estonia Paper: Citizen use of government eServices: Comparing
use, governance and cooperation models in Estonia and Georgia
Michal Plaček, Milan Půček, František Ochrana, Center for
Social and Economic Strategies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Paper: The Comparison of Bulgaria and the Czech Republic
in the Identification of Corruption Risk
AWARD 2016
Ringa Raudla, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
James W. Douglas, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA/Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Tiina Randma-Liiv, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Riin Savi, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Paper: Fiscal Crisis and Expenditure Cuts: The Influence of Public Management Practices on Cutback Strategies in Europe
AWARD 2015
Aleksander
Aristovnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tatjana Jovanovic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tereza Rogic-Lugaric,
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Paper: The construction of
regulations in Slovenia and Croatia – material and procedural aspects between
public and private interests
AWARD 2014
Riin Savi, Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and
Governance, Tallinn University of Technology
and
Aleksandrs Cepilov, Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn
University of Technology.
Paper: The Role of Agencies and Street-Level
Bureaucrats in Cutback Management: Comparing the Cases of Estonia and Latvia
Walter Kickert, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Tiina Randma-Liiv, Tallinn University of Technology and Riin Savi,
Tallinn University of Technology. Paper: Politics of Fiscal Consolidation in
Europe: A Comparative Analysis
AWARD 2013
Vitalis Nakrošis, Vilnius University, Lithuania,
Žilvinas Martinaitis, Vilnius University, Lithuania,
Calin Hintea, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania,
Dan Balica Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Adrian Hudrea, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Paper:
Ex post control and steering of government agencies in Lithuania and Romania
AWARD 2012:
Karin Hilmer Pedersen, Department of Political Science and Government, Aarhus University, Denmark
Lars Johannsen, Department of Political Science and Government, Aarhus University, Denmark
Paper: Pluralism in Public Administration and Shared Values: The Baltic countries
AWARD 2011:
Veronica Junjan, Department of Social Risks and Safety Studies, Univer
sity of Twente, The Netherlands,
Diana-Camelia Iancu, Faculty of Public Administration, National School of Political Studies and Public
Administration, Romania
Paper:Post EU accession reforms in Central and Eastern European countries: Who will (continue to) bother?