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Best Book Award voor Adriaan Schout
September 10, 2007. Het Clingendael Europese Studies Programma feliciteert met trots dr. Adriaan Schout - senior research fellow bij het CESP - voor het ontvangen van de prestigieuze prijs voor 'Best Book in European Studies' van de UACES (University Association for Contemporary European Studies). Schout en co-auteur Andrew Jordan ontvingen de prijs voor het boek The Coordination of the European Union: Exploring the Capacities of Networked Governance (Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-19-9286957). De award werd hen op 4 september overhandigd tijdens een ceremonie in Portsmouth.
Enige citaten uit het zeer lovende juryrapport: "...The authors are praised for raising 'big political science questions' regarding political coordination and network governance, and answering them by drawing on a rich empirical study focusing on EU environmental policy and its coordination at, and between, the various levels of governance in the emerging Euro-polity. The judges considered the book to be a 'model of clarity, with a tightly argued thesis and structure', and destined to be 'a standard reference book across disciplines'. Setting the bar for work in the field very high, this book was considered by the judges to be an excellent and extremely deserving recipient of the award."
Het juryrapport stelt ook dat het boek aangeeft: "how well our field can function as a transmission belt of ideas between areas and disciplines: Andrew Jordan and Adriaan Schout's work is of relevance to all scholars of contemporary public policy and governance".