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Call for IPSA Awards 2025

We are pleased to announce that the Call for IPSA Awards 2025 is now open! IPSA confers several prestigious awards, presented at the IPSA World Congresses, that recognize outstanding contributions to political science and include a monetary prize. 

IPSA members are invited to submit nominations before 1 November 2024 for the two awards: The Karl Deutsch Award and the Prize of the Foundation Mattei Dogan. Nominations for these awards can be submitted in one of the following ways:

a) by a national association of IPSA;
b) by an IPSA Research Committee (RC);
c) jointly by two or more IPSA members in good standing of at least two different nationalities;
d) by an incumbent IPSA Executive Committee (EC) member;
e) from outside IPSA, by established academic institutions active in political science.

You can also submit your application for the Global South Award, Stein Rokkan Travel Grant Award and the IPSA Guillermo O’Donnell Award for Latin-American Scholars by 1 March 2025

Launched at the 2023 IPSA World Congress in Buenos Aires, the IPSA Guillermo O'Donnell Award for Latin-American Scholars was established to recognize early-career scholars who obtained their Ph.D. within the past seven years, with no age restriction. The award is named in honor of Prof. Guillermo O’Donnell, IPSA's Past President and one of Latin America’s most prominent political scientists. The award will be presented for the first time at the 2025 World Congress in Seoul.

IPSA AwardsAmountDeadline
Karl Deutsch Award1,000 USD1 NOV 2024 (Nomination)
Prize of the Foundation Mattei Dogan 3,000 USD1 NOV 2024 (Nomination)
APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award   750 USD18 DEC 2024 (Nomination)
Global South Award1,000 USD1 MAR 2025 (Application)
IPSA Guillermo O’Donnell Award for Latin-American Scholars3,000 USD1 MAR 2025 (Application)
Stein Rokkan Travel Grant Award1,000 USD1 MAR 2025 (Application

For more information, please visit the IPSA Awards page.