Quality of Government (QoG) Institute Best Paper Award 2026 – YOA

Deadline: December 9, 2026

Applications are open for the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute Best Paper Award 2026. The Quality of Government Institute (QoG) on the University of Gothenburg declares the Best Paper Award for a paper on a QoG-associated matter revealed as an article, ebook chapter, or working paper in a college, or in any other case recognizable working paper sequence. Papers should have been revealed or offered at an instructional worldwide convention between September 2025 and September 2026.

The QoG analysis agenda focuses on impartiality within the train of public energy. The norm of impartiality is compromised when corruption, clientelism, favoritism, discrimination, patronage, nepotism, or undue help to particular curiosity teams happens. They invite nominations of papers that analysis any of these subjects, and welcome papers with any methodological strategy.

Benefits

• A go to to the QoG Institute for per week as a visitor scholar to current the paper or associated analysis (journey prices to and from Gothenburg and lodging in Gothenburg are lined).

Eligibility

• To be eligible, the creator(s) should be enrolled in a PhD program or maintain a better tutorial rank (postdoctoral researcher or above).
• Submissions are restricted to at least one paper per creator. Papers will be self-nominated or nominated by others.
• Both self-nominated papers and papers nominated by others ought to present a one-web page motivation for recommending the paper.

Application

All paperwork needs to be submitted in PDF. The submission window will shut 9 December 2026. The announcement can be made in January 2027.

The submission should:

• Not exceed 12,000 phrases (unique of references and appendices);
• Ensure references are formatted in accordance with an ordinary, constant, quotation type;
• Include tables, graphs, photographs, and many others. inside the physique of the paper;
• Be anonymized – (creator(s) title(s) shouldn’t seem wherever in the principle textual content);
• Have a motivation assertion (one web page max) for recommending the paper, even for self-nominated papers.

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For extra data, go to QoG Institute Best Paper Award.