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RC20 Best Paper Award

First edition: 2022. Next edition: 2026.

The RC20 (Comparative Sociology) board is pleased to announce the Best Paper Award in comparative sociology. The award will honor an outstanding published work in comparative sociology by a member of RC20. The winner will be announced at the 2nd RC20 Regional Conference on Comparative Sociology & the 1st RC56 Regional Conference on Historical Sociology & the 5th RC33 Regional Conference on Social Science Methodology: Asia (Khon Kaen, Thailand, 24 – 28 August in 2026, Khon Kaen University) and will receive a prize of 300€. The award is open to all RC20 members. Papers may be empirical or theoretical and may use quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods.

Criteria

Submissions will be judged by an award committee, which will include RC20 board members excluding applicants. The winner will be chosen based on contribution to comparative sociology and effective writing and presentation.

Eligibility

All RC20 members are eligible to submit a paper for consideration, or to nominate papers written by other members of RC20. Submitted papers should be on a topic in comparative sociology, written in English, and published in a peer-reviewed journal or as a chapter in an edited book no earlier than 1 January 2023. Forthcoming articles will be considered (please include the acceptance letter with your submission). In order for the paper to be considered, at least one of the authors should be an RC20 member.

Submission

To submit a paper, please send an electronic copy to Fumiya ONAKA, RC20 Executive Secretary, at fonaka@fc.jwu.ac.jp.

Submissions will close on December 31, 2025.

Winning Paper of the 2022 Edition

  • Winning paper:

Sung Hee Ru. “Historical geographies of Korea’s incorporation: The rise of underdeveloped and modernized colonial port cities.” Journal of Historical Geography 76 (2022): 42-55.

  • Honorable mention:

Andrew Dawson. “The achilles heel of democracy? A macro cross-national assessment of the correlates of state legitimacy.” Social Science Research 97 (2021) 102574.