Past Recipients of the Mayer Journal Article Prize

• 2023: Michelle Evans and Duncan McDonnell, “More partisans than parachutes, more successful than not: Indigenous candidates of the major Australian parties”
  Honourable mention: Amy Nethery, Zim Nwokora, Peter Ferguson & Matthew Clarke, “Politics as a transitory vocation: a case study of the post-parliamentary challenges experienced by former Victorian MPs”
• 2022: Philip Mendes, Steven Roche, Greg Marston, Shelley Bielefeld, Michelle Peterie, Zoe Staines and Louise Humpage, ‘‘Is conditional welfare an effective means for reducing alcohol and drug abuse? An exploration of compulsory income management across four Australian trial sites’
• 2021: Sarah Cameron, ‘Government Performance and Dissatisfaction with Democracy in Australia’,
• 2020: Elizabeth Strakosch, ‘The technical is political: settler colonialism and the Australian Indigenous policy system’
• 2019: Alastair Stark, ‘New institutionalism, critical junctures and post-crisis policy reform’
• 2018: Carolyn Hendriks, ‘Citizen-led Democratic Reform: Innovations in Indi.’
• 2017: Dennis Grube, ‘Sticky Words? Towards a theory of rhetorical path dependency.’
• 2016: Alan Fenna & Alan Tapper, ‘Economic Inequality in Australia: A Reassessment.’
• 2015: Dennis Grube, ‘Administrative learning or political blaming? Public servants, parliamentary committees and the drama of public accountability.’
• 2014: Professors Kath Gelber and Luke McNamara, ‘Freedom of speech and racial vilification in Australia: “The Bolt case” in public discourse.’
• 2013: Alan Fenna & Alan Tapper, ‘The Australian Welfare State and the Neoliberalism Thesis.’
• 2011: John Kane and Haig Patapan, ‘The Artless Art: Leadership and the Limits of Democratic Rhetoric.’
• 2010: Tim Rowse, ‘Indigenous politics.’
• 2009: Linda Botterill and Anne McNaughton, Australian National University, ‘Laying the Foundations for the Wheat Scandal: UN sanctions, Private actors and the Cole inquiry
• 2008: Sally Young, University of Melbourne, ‘Policy-making in a ‘cold climate‘ of ruling party benefit: Party government and the regulation of government advertising in Australia.’
• 2001: Judith Brett, Latrobe University, ‘Retrieving the Partisan History of Australian Citizenship.’
• 2000: Stephen Crook, Jan Pakulski and Bruce Tranter, University of Tasmania, ‘The Dynamics of environmental issues in Australia: Concerns, clusters and carriers’.
• 1999: Murray Goot, ‘Whose Mandate? Policy Promises, Strong Bicameralism and Polled Opinion’