The academic association for Contemporary European Studies UACES and the Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER) have announced the winners of this year’s Luke Foster Prize for the best article by an early-career researcher published in JCER.
My article ‘Far Beyond the Treaties’ Clauses: The European Parliament’s Gain in Power, 1952-1979′ has reached the runner-up position. I am very grateful for the acknowledgment of this paper, which refutes dominant theories of the European Parliament as a fairly powerless talking shop prior to its first direct elections in 1979.