The ECPR will award Imke Harbers MA with the Rudolf Wildenmann Prize for her paper "Decentralization as a condition of Party System Nationalization: Evidence from Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe" which she submitted at the Rennes Joint Sessions in 2008. The prize will be awarded during the Joint session in Lissbon. The Rudolf Wildenmann Prize is awarded annually by the ECPR to a young colleague for an outstanding paper presented at the Joint Sessions of workshops. For more information on this prize visit the ECPR website.