We changed the process for selecting recipients of the JEPP best paper prize this year. Instead of awarding a prize on the basis of downloads as in previous years, we asked two members of the Editorial Board (Daniel Kelemen and Sebastiaan Princen), to select what they considered to be the best article published in JEPP in 2014 (excluding those published as part of a ‘Special issue’). They have now made their selection and report as follows:
Winner:
Kuhn, T. and Stoeckel, F. (2014) ‘When European integration becomes costly: the euro crisis and public support for European economic governance’, Journal of European Public Policy 21(4): 624–41
Statement:
‘We looked for papers that stood out in terms of theoretical and methodological sophistication and that made an original and significant contribution to the field.
The article by Theresa Kuhn and Florian Stoeckel fitted all these criteria. In it, they analyse support among citizens for further economic integration in the European Union, an issue that has become highly relevant following the global financial crisis. On the basis of a careful analysis, they show that support for further economic integration is determined by a different set of factors than support for the EU in general. This finding has important implications for our understanding of public support for European integration.
In short, the article makes a convincing, original and important argument about one of the key issues of European public policy today. It therefore justly deserves to win JEPP's 2014 best article award.’
As JEPP Editors, we congratulate Theresa Kuhn and Florian Stoeckel on winning the JEPP prize for 2015.