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2003 Award for Conceptual Innovation
in Democratic Studies
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Munck and Verkuilen Win First C&M Award
The 2003 Award for Conceptual Innovation in Democratic Studies was awarded
to Gerardo L. Munck (University of Southern California) and Jay Verkuilen
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) for their article
"Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: Evaluating Alternative Indices,"
published in Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, February 2002, pp. 5-34.
Our warm congratulations to the authors!
Sponsors
The award, set at 1.500 USD, was sponsored by
the IPSA Committee on Concepts and Methods (C&M)
and the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Mexico City.
Jury
The jury was composed by Professor Terry Karl (Chair), Stanford University,
Professor Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
and Professor Axel Hadenius, University of Uppsala.
Many thanks for their most valuable work!
The Article
The article by Gerardo Munck and Jay Verkuilen was chosen
from an exceptionally strong set of top-quality submissions.
The C&M board thanks all authors, colleagues, and publishers
who submitted their own work, the work of their colleagues,
or their authors' work to the committee.
In its justification, the Jury describes Munck and Verkuilen's prize-winning article
the following way:
"The jury chose the article 'Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy:
Evaluating Alternative Indices' by Gerardo L. Munck and Jay Verkuilen,
published in Comparative Political Studies 35/1 (February 2002) for the
award out of a very strong field of submissions.
This article makes a contribution in the fields of conceptualization AND measurement,
and it provides an important service to the scholarly community involved in the
study of democracy because it analyzes the conceptualization,
measurement, and aggregation rules followed by the authors of the most
frequently used indices of democracy.
Given that quantitative studies of democracy and democratization have become
a growth industry, it is crucial that scholars be aware of the comparative strengths and
weaknesses of the various indices available for their analyses.
The article goes beyond an evaluation of existing indices by offering a
comprehensive framework for the generation of data and thus elucidating
one of the crucial components of research aimed at causal inference.
Finally, it makes useful suggestions for improving the quality of data
on democracy."
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