The Specialist Group on Autocracies and Regime Change's Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on issues relating to autocracies or regime change presented at the PSA Annual Conference 2024.

Anyone can nominate a paper for the award by emailing arc.psa.sg@gmail.com until 31 March 2024. Self-nominations are welcome. All papers presented in the specialist group's panels will automatically be considered as nominated.

The 2024 Award committee consists of Katerina Tertytchnaya (University of Oxford) and Nils Metternich (University College London).