To encourage the studies of Taiwan politics, CGOTS offers two awards for the articles presented in the APSA-CGOTS panels: The Best Paper Award and The Young Scholar Best Paper Award. The two awards are partly sponsored by Dr. Chi Huang, The University Chair Professor in the Department of Political Science at the National Chengchi University, Taipei Taiwan, who also served as the co-founder of CGOTS in 1992. 

Best Paper Award
2022
"Symbolic versus Pragmatic Politics in Taiwan" by Tse-min Lin, Chun-Ying Wu, and Theodore Charm
"Paradiplomacy as a Response to International Isolation: The Case of Taiwan" by Sara Newland

Young Scholar Best Paper Award
2022
"Political Regimes and Minority Language Policies: Evidence From Taiwan"  by Chun-Ying Wu