Janina Grabs recipient of the Giandomenico Majone Prize
At the 7th Biennial Conference of the ECPR’s Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, held in Lausanne from 4 to 6 July 2018, TRANS SUSTAIN’s Janina Grabs was awarded the Sixth Giandomenico Majone Prize for her submission “The Effectiveness of Private Sustainability Governance: A Micro-Institutional Approach”. The prize recognizes the best paper presented at the conference by an early career researcher (up to 7 years after PhD). According to the awards committee, the paper posed important questions on the effectiveness of private regulatory governance; the data collection effort was vast, yet conducted with precision and care; the methods were rigorous and the paper had a high level of real-world applicability, given the direct questions on regulatory compliance and effectiveness. The committee noted that “consequently, the paper makes a strong theoretical contribution to the broad field of regulatory governance and we are happy to award it the 2018 Majone Prize!”