SEAPRG gives two Best Paper Prizes for papers related to politics in Southeast Asia, presented at APSA in the prior year.\u00a0 We have two award categories: 1) open category; or (2) emerging scholar category. To be eligible for the emerging scholar category, all authors must have earned their PhDs no more than three years before the time of nomination. \u00a0\u00a0For co-authored papers, we use the most senior author to classify the paper.\u00a0 We welcome self-nominations.\u00a0 To be included in the consideration process, nominees must submit a PDF copy of the paper they presented at APSA, the section\/division\/panel title wherein the paper was presented, as well as all the names and institutions of all the authors.<\/p>\n
The winning papers are selected by SEAPRG\u2019s prize committee, which is typically comprised of the prior year\u2019s award winners.<\/p>\n
Winners are announced during SEAPRG\u2019s business meeting at APSA.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s prize winners <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n SEAPRG is pleased to announce the winners of its 2023 Best Paper Awards<\/strong>.\u00a0 This year’s winners are:<\/p>\n Emerging scholar category:<\/p>\n Htet Thiha Zaw<\/a> (University of British Columbia): “The Pre-colonial Roots of Colonial Coercion: Evidence from British Burma”<\/p>\n Open Category: Honorable Mention:\u00a0 Jeremy Siow<\/a> “Bilingual Education Reduces Ethnic Outgroup Discrimination Through Perspective-Taking”<\/p>\n These papers were selected from a strong pool of candidates that attests to the high quality of research being done on and in Southeast Asia by SEAPRG members. We thank this year\u2019s prize committee (Matthew Nanes, Dotan Haim, and Oren Samet) for their work!<\/p>\n IMPORTANT:<\/strong> Did you see a great paper on Southeast Asia presented at APSA 2024? Please nominate it for the 2024 Best Paper Awards!\u00a0 <\/strong>The call for nominations will be sent out to APSA SEAPRG members in October.<\/p>\n Previous Award Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n Open category:<\/p>\n Oren Samet<\/a> (UC Berkeley), Aila Matanock<\/a> (UC Berkeley), and Leonardo Arriola<\/a> (UC Berkeley): “Facebook Usage and Outgroup Intolerance in Myanmar ”<\/p>\n Dotan Haim<\/a> (Florida State University), Matthew Nanes<\/a> (St. Louis University), and Nico Ravanilla<\/a> (UC San Diego): \u201cHow does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes?\u201d<\/p>\n 2021 <\/strong><\/p>\n Emerging scholar category: “Can Encounters with the State Improve Minority-State Relations? Evidence from Myanmar,” by Jangai Jap<\/a> (UT Austin)<\/p>\n Open category: \u00a0“Is Electoral Accountability Possible in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam,” by Edmund Malesky<\/a> (Duke University), Jason Douglas Todd<\/a> (Duke Kunshan University), and Anh Tran<\/a> (Indiana University)<\/p>\n 2020: <\/strong><\/p>\n Emerging scholar category: “The Indigenous Civil Service in Late-Colonial Indonesia: Insights from a New Dataset,” by\u00a0 Nicholas Kuipers<\/a> (UC Berkeley)<\/p>\n 2019: <\/strong><\/p>\n Emerging scholar category: \u201cRecognition as Integration: Indigenous Rights and National Citizenship in the Philippines,\u201d\u00a0 by Nina McMurry<\/a> (WZB Berlin)<\/p>\n Open category: \u201cDeadly Populism: How Local Political Outsiders Drive Duterte\u2019s War on Drugs in the Philippines\u201d by Nico Ravanilla<\/a> (University of California, San Diego), Renard Sexton<\/a>\u00a0(Emory University), and\u00a0Dotan Haim<\/a>\u00a0(Florida State University)<\/p>\n 2018:<\/strong> \u201cMerit, Discrimination, and Democratization: An Analysis of Promotion Patterns in Indonesia\u2019s Civil Service,\u201d by Jan Pierskalla<\/a> (Ohio State University), Adam Lauretig (Ohio State University), Andrew Rosenberg (Ohio State University), and Audrey Sacks (World Bank)<\/p>\n 2017:<\/strong> \u201cCivilian Social Networks and Credible Counterinsurgency,\u201d by Dotan Haim<\/a> (University of California, San Diego)<\/p>\n 2016:<\/strong> \u201cExplaining Elections in Singapore: Party Credibility and Valence Politics,\u201d by Steven Oliver (Yale-NUS College) and Kai Ostwald (University of British Columbia)<\/p>\n 2015:<\/strong> \u201cInducement or Entry Ticket? Broker Networks and Vote Buying in Indonesia,\u201d by Edward Aspinall (Australian National University), Michael Davidson (University of California, San Diego), Allen Hicken (University of Michigan), and Meredith Weiss (SUNY Albany)<\/p>\n 2014:<\/strong> \u201cProductive Intolerance: Godly Nationalism in Indonesia,\u201d by Jeremy Menchik (Boston University)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SEAPRG gives two Best Paper Prizes for papers related to politics in Southeast Asia, presented at APSA in the prior year.\u00a0 We have two award categories: 1) open category; or (2) emerging scholar category. 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\nNathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo<\/a> (National University of Singapore): “The Broader Political Significance of Houses of Worship”<\/p>\n