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
2025
Will be announced at the 2026 APSA Annual Meeting

2024
"Gendered Candidate Persistency Across National and Local Elections" by David Yu-Siang Huang

2023
"Deterring the Patron, Compelling the Client: China’s Strategic Signaling in the 2022 Taiwan Strait Crisis as Revealed on Social Media" by Titus C. Chen​ and Nien-Chung Chang-Liao

2022
"Hyperpartisanship in Taiwan Media and Electorate" by Karl Ho, Cal Clark, and Alexander C. Tan
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2021
"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
2025
​Will be announced at the 2026 APSA Annual Meeting

2024
"Judicial Repression and Opposition to Autocracy: Evidence from Hong Kong" by Ruilin Lai

2023
"Accounting for Media Bias: Evidence from Major News Outlets in Taiwan, 2004-2020" by Isaac Shih-hao Huang and Yi-Ting Chen​                                                                                                          

2022
"A Difficult Decision to Repress? Understanding Political Violence and Dissent in Taiwan’s Autocratic era" by Yi-Jhan(Shaka) Li and Dennis Lu-Chung Weng​

2021
"Political Regimes and Minority Language Policies: Evidence From Taiwan"  by Chun-Ying Wu