Every year the editors of Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy awards a prize for the best paper published in the previous year. This award is given in recognition of Professor Robert Bennett, the founding editor of the journal.

Below are listed the winners of the prize, with links to the winning papers. The abstracts are freely available; the full-text PDFs are available to only subscribers.

Volume 30(2)		Urban sustainability, conflict management, and the geographies of postpoliticism: a case study of Taipei (2012)
		Mike Raco, Wen-I Lin
Volume 29(6)		Do local policy networks deter the race to the bottom in environmental regulation? The case of South Korea (2011)
		Doo-Rae Kim