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Roberta Sigel Junior Scholar Paper Award


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The Sigel Award is given to junior scholar authors of the best papers presented at annual scientific meetings. Nominees must be current ISPP members.

ISPP first announced this award at its Vancouver meeting in 1996. Professor Sigel, whom the award honors, has been a distinguished professor of political science at Rutgers University since 1973. She is author and editor of seven books and many articles and book chapters, mostly in the areas of political socialization and democratic citizenship. She has had many leadership roles in the American Political Science Association and has served as program chair, Vice-President and President of ISPP.

All ISPP Junior Scholars who are current dues paid members of ISPP and had their paper accepted for the most recent summer meeting/ conference are eligible to be considered for the award to be presented during the next year's meeting. Junior Scholars are all students (graduate or undergraduate) and faculty who received their Ph.D. within the last eight years.

There are two prizes with slightly different criteria to accommodate the authorship and publication practices in the various disciplines represented in ISPP:

  • The first award will be given to the best paper written by Junior Scholars only. In the case of multiple authors, all co-authors must be Junior Scholars.
  • The second award will be conferred to the best paper with a Junior Scholar first author. This award allows, but does not require, non-Junior Scholar co-authors.

The 2008 award recipient will be strongly encouraged to attend the 2008 Annual Meeting and Award's Banquet in Paris, France.

To submit a paper for consideration for the 2008 award, please send an electronic copy by August 15, 2007 to:

Jonathan Renshon
Chair, Roberta Sigel Award Committee
at: jrenshon@fas.harvard.edu
with the subject heading: Robert Sigel Award Nomination

Only papers by current (dues paid for this year) ISPP members are eligible for consideration.

Past winners:

2007 Christopher Federico  
2006 Daphna Canetti-Nisim; Rajiv Jhangiani and Peter Suedfeld
2005 Romain Lachat
2004 James N. Druckman, Kjersten R. Nelson
2003 Celeste Lay
2002 vacant
2001 David Redlawsk
2000 James Druckman, Michael Allen, Sik Hung Ng
1999 vacant
1998 Kristin Hall Maher, David Redlawsk



Abstracts
of 2006 award winners:
 

Integrative Complexity and Emotional Positivity during a Terrorist Attack
by Rajiv Jhangiani and Peter Suedfeld


The Effect of Religiosity on Endorsement of Democratic Values: the Mediating Influence of Authoritarianism
by
Daphna Canetti-Nisim
 


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