The Prize of the Foundation Mattei Dogan awarded by the International Political Science Association for High Achievement in Political Science is to honour scholars of high international reputation in recognition of their contribution to the advancement of political science, with a particular focus on recognizing outstanding scholarship on comparative studies of political elites.
Chaired by Executive Committee (EC) member Pablo Oñate, this award session gathered two leading scholars.
The 2018 Prize of the Foundation Mattei Dogan awarded by the International Political Science Association for High Achievement in Political Science recipient, James Scott, who postponed his award lecture to the 2021 IPSA World Congress, discussed human interventions on rivers and their implications. His presentation, titled “In Praise of Floods,” indicated that rivers are actually living organisms: They are born, move, merge or die. However, exploiting them by building big dams, changing their courses or depleting them for irrigation affects the nature and creatures that depend on them. As Prof. Scott puts it, the result is usually a disaster.
Maurizio Ferrera, the recipient of the 2021 Prize of the Foundation Mattei Dogan awarded by the International Political Science Association for High Achievement in Political Science recipient, also gave a lecture, titled “The EU as an Experimental Polity-builder - Lessons from the Crisis Decade and Post-pandemic Prospects.” In his lecture, Prof. Ferrera focused on the EU and its ability to deal with the current and future crisis including Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic, border controls, the EU enlargement in the Balkans etc.
