The Quality of Government Institute (QoG) at the University of Gothenburg announces the Best Paper Award for a paper on a QoG-related topic published as an article, book chapter, or working paper in a university, or otherwise recognizable working paper series. Papers must have been published or presented at an academic international conference between September 2025 and September 2026.
The QoG research agenda focuses on impartiality in the exercise of public power. The norm of im-partiality is compromised when corruption, clientelism, favoritism, discrimination, patronage, nepo-tism, or undue support to special interest groups occurs. We invite nominations of papers that re-search any of these topics, and welcome papers with any methodological approach.
To be eligible, the author(s) must be enrolled in a PhD program or hold a higher academic rank (postdoctoral researcher or above). Submissions are limited to one paper per author. Papers can be self-nominated or nominated by others. Both self-nominated papers and papers nominated by others should provide a one page motivation for recommending the paper.
Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of referees from the QoG Institute, and the award will be presented to the author(s) of a paper that demonstrates outstanding research based on its theoretical and empirical contributions.