McDougall Trust

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5 Jun 2026

McDougall Trust Dissertation Prize Winner Announced

This year’s winner of the McDougall Trust prize for Outstanding dissertation on elections, electoral systems and representation is Lucas Paulo da Silva, Universität Zürich.

His dissertation was: Ideological Media Markets, Cross-Pressured Voters, and Spatial Voting: A Computational and Experimental Approach

The annual prize is awarded via the Political Studies Association and details of all of their 2026 prize winners are availabe here

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