UKPAC Prize Competition 2004: Prospectus

The Prospectus for the 2004 competition read, in part, as follows:

The competition, which is intended to encourage the participation of younger academics and practitioners in the work of the IIAS and its affiliate bodies (of which EGPA is one), is open to any UK citizen or to anyone employed or resident in the UK at the time that the winning entry was published. Although there are no formal age limits for the competition, the judges will give particular credit to work submitted by authors who are under 40 and/or at an early stage of their careers.

The judges will be looking for published work in any field of public administration or public management that makes a particularly important and original contribution to theory and/or practice in these fields. Contributions from cognate disciplines (such as public law, organisational psychology or sociology) will be eligible for consideration.

The requirements of the competition are as follows:

  1. Entry is not restricted to publications in UK books and journals. However, the publication must be in the English language.
  2. Publication must have taken place since 1 January 2003.
  3. The length of items submitted must be between 5,000 and 10,000 words.
  4. Items deemed eligible will include articles and book chapters. Other categories of publication such as pamphlets, reports and occasional papers may also be considered, at the judges’ discretion.
  5. Jointly-authored work will be eligible for consideration, but in the event of such work being the winning entry only one prize will be awarded. All the authors of such work must have given written permission (see (vi)) for its submission to the competition.
  6. Academics and practitioners are invited to nominate the work of colleagues (particularly more junior colleagues) for consideration, but entries may also be self-nominated. All the authors of items submitted must have given written consent for their work to be considered. Four copies (offprints or clear photocopies) of entries must be submitted.

The closing date for submission is 31 May 2004.