Elinor Ostrom Prize
The annual “Elinor Ostrom” Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the previous year’s SISP Conference by scholars enrolled in a doctoral programme or who have obtained their Ph.D. no more than 7 years before the date of the Conference.
Nomination Procedure
The annual ‘Elinor Ostrom’ Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the previous year’s SISP Conference by scholars enrolled in a doctoral programme or who have obtained their Ph.D. no more than 7 years before the date of the Conference. In order for the paper to be eligible for the prize, all authors must meet the 7-year time criterion from the date of their Ph.D. achievement, but it is not necessary for them to be SISP members.
Nomination procedure: Section Chairs are required to submit through My Sisp up to a maximum of 3 papers presented within the panels organized within their Section (also based on recommendations received from Panel Chairs, discussants and any self-nominations). In case of failure to make a nomination, Section chairs are required to briefly explain the reasons. The selected papers must be submitted to the SISP Secretariat together with a declaration certifying for all authors the enrollment in a doctoral programme or the achievement of the Ph.D. degree no more than 7 years from the date of the conference at which the paper was presented.
Amount of the prize (total for each single paper): €500.00
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom (Los Angeles, August 7, 1933 – Bloomington, June 12, 2012) was a US Political Scientist awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, along with Oliver Williamson, for the analysis of governance and, in particular, common resources. She was the first woman and first political scientist to be awarded the Nobel Prize in this discipline.
Ostrom was a professor of Political Science and co-director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Political Analysis at Indiana University. Additionally, she founded and directed the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity at Arizona State University. From 1996 to 1997 she was President of the American Political Science Association. Among her works: “Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action” (1990); “Development: Infrastructure Policies in Perspective” (1993); “Pool Resources” (1994); “Understanding Institutional Diversity” (2005).
