The Committee of the Standing Group “Presidential Politics” congratulates the 2018 winner of the ‘Robert Elgie ‘ Best Paper Prize” Huang Ting-Yan for his paper “Prime Minister Autonomy and Intra-Executive Conflict under Semi-Presidentialism” presented at the ECPR General Conference in Hamburg.  Yan’s paper examines the potential for intra-executive conflict in semi-presidential democracies. While most research on this … ‘Robert Elgie’ Best Paper Prize 2018