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‘Policing in Patriarchy’ Wins the 2025 APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award

1 May 2025
 

The American Political Science Association (APSA) and the Political Studies Association (PSA) are delighted to announce the 2025 winner of this award which celebrates outstanding and innovative cross-national scholarly partnerships.

Congratulations to Akshay Mangla (Associate Professor of International Business, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Sandip Sukhtankar (Professor, Department of Economics, University of Virginia) and Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner (Associate Professor of Politics & Global Studies, University of Virginia), for ‘Policing in patriarchy - an experimental evaluation of reforms to improve police responsiveness to women in India.’

The award was judged by a joint APSA and PSA panel of PSA Trustees Dr. Donna Smith (The Open University, UK), Professor John Craig (University of Hull, UK) and APSA representatives - Emeritus Professor John Berg (Suffolk University, USA) and Professor Karen Beckwith (Case Western Reserve University, USA) who said:

We were very impressed by the high level of scholarship, the public policy results, the impact on actual practice, and the excellent example of international cooperation with others to create change.”

We thank Donna, John, Karen and John for their careful consideration of an exceptionally strong field of submissions this year.

On behalf of the winning team, Dr Akshay Mangla said:

It is a tremendous honour for us to be recognised with this award. Our multi-method research on policing and gender-based violence involves a longstanding collaboration with police agencies in India, and in particular the Madhya Pradesh police, who have been terrific partners. It is a joy to learn from this diverse, interdisciplinary team. And it is truly rewarding to see our research play a role in strengthening police training and practices aimed at improving women’s security.”

You can read more about this work here: Article in Science July 2022

Applications for 2026 nominations is expected to open in early November 2025 and close in mid-February 2026, details will be announced on PSA and APSA websites.  Awards will be presented at the 2026 APSA Annual Meeting in Boston, MA, 3 – 6 September 2026.