Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research

Summary

The Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research is an academic honour awarded by the International Science Council, the University of Bergen and the European Consortium for Political Research, in memory of the political scientist and sociologist Stein Rokkan. It is awarded to scholars making "a very substantial and original contribution in comparative social science research".[1][2]

Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research
Awarded forA very substantial and original contribution in comparative social science research
Presented byInternational Science Council, University of Bergen and European Consortium for Political Research
First awarded1981
Websiteecpr.eu/Prizes

These contributions can be in the form of book-length, unpublished manuscripts, published books, or collections of works published no more than two years prior to the award year. The prize is awarded annually and is worth $5000.[1][2][3]

According to a reputation survey conducted in 2013 and 2014, the Stein Rokkan Prize is the second most prestigious international academic award in political science, after the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science.[4][5] A reputation survey conducted in 2018 found the Stein Rokkan Prize to be the most prestigious interdisciplinary award in the social sciences (jointly with the Holberg Prize).[6]

Prizewinners edit

Sources: The European Consortium for Political Research,[7] the European University Institute[8] and the International Social Science Council[9]

Year Prizewinner Country Work
1981 Manfred G. Schmidt   Germany Wohlfahrtsstaatliche Politik unter bürgerlichen und sozialdemokratischen Regierungen: Ein internationaler Vergleich
1983 Jens Alber   Germany Vom Armenhaus zum Wohlfahrtsstaat: Analysen zur Entwicklung der Sozialversicherung in Westeuropa (From the Poor House to the Welfare State: Analysis of the Development of Social Insurance in Western Europe),
"Einige Grundlagen und Begleiterscheinungen der Entwicklung der Sozialausgaben in Westeuropa, 1949-1977" ("Some Causes and Consequences of Social Security Expenditure Development in Western Europe, 1949-1977")
1986 Louis M. Imbeau [fr]   Canada Donor Aid: The Determinants of Development Allocations to Third World Countries
1988   Charles C. Ragin   United States The Comparative Method: Moving beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies
1990   Stefano Bartolini   Italy Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability: The Stabilisation of European Electorates 1885-1985
Peter Mair   Ireland
  Italy
  Netherlands
1992 Kaare Strøm   Norway Minority Government and Majority Rule
1996 Kees van Kersbergen   Netherlands Social Capitalism: A Study of Christian Democracy and the Welfare State
1998 Robert Rohrschneider   Germany
  United States
Learning Democracy: Democratic and Economic Values in Unified Germany
2000 Eva Anduiza-Perea   Spain Individual and Systemic Determinants of Electoral Abstention in Western Europe
2002   Patrick Le Galès   France European Cities: Social Conflicts and Governance
2004   Daniele Caramani   Italy
   Switzerland
The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe
2006 Milada Anna Vachudova   United States Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage, and Integration after Communism
2008   Cas Mudde   Belgium
  Netherlands
Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe
2009   Robert E. Goodin   Australia
  United States
Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom
  James Mahmud Rice   Australia
  United States
  Antti Parpo   Finland
  Lina Eriksson   Australia
  Sweden
2010   Beth A. Simmons   United States Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics
2011 James W. McGuire   United States Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America
2012 Pepper D. Culpepper   Italy
  United States
Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan
2013 Dorothee Bohle   Germany
  Hungary
Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery
Béla Greskovits   Hungary
2014   Christian Welzel   Germany Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
2015 Marius Busemeyer   Germany Skills and Inequality: Partisan Politics and the Political Economy of Education Reforms in Western Welfare States
2016 Stanislav Markus   United States Property, Predation, and Protection: Piranha Capitalism in Russia and Ukraine
2017 Abel Escribà-Folch   Spain Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival
Joseph Wright   United States
2018   Rafaela M. Dancygier   United States Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics
2019 Andreas Wimmer    Switzerland
  United States
Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together while Others Fall Apart
2020 Jeffrey M. Chwieroth   United Kingdom
  United States
The Wealth Effect: How the Great Expectations of the Middle Class Have Changed the Politics of Banking Crises
Andrew Walter   Australia
2021 Ran Hirschl   Canada City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity
2022   Vineeta Yadav   India
  United States
Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties
2023   Elisabeth Anderson   Germany
  United Arab Emirates
  United States
Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Call for Nominations: Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research". International Science Council. 16 October 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Stein Rokkan Prize". European Consortium for Political Research. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Stein Rokkan Prize Nomination Procedure". European Consortium for Political Research. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  4. ^ IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence. IREG List of International Academic Awards (PDF). Brussels: IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  5. ^ Zheng, Juntao; Liu, Niancai (2015). "Mapping of important international academic awards". Scientometrics. 104 (3): 763–791. doi:10.1007/s11192-015-1613-7. S2CID 255009397.
  6. ^ Jiang, Fan; Liu, Niancai (2018). "The hierarchical status of international academic awards in social sciences". Scientometrics. 117 (3): 2091–2115. doi:10.1007/s11192-018-2928-y. S2CID 255010896.
  7. ^ "Stein Rokkan Prize Winners". European Consortium for Political Research. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  8. ^ "Pepper Culpepper Receives the XVIIth Stein Rokkan Prize". European University Institute. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  9. ^ "Stein Rokkan". International Social Science Council. Retrieved 18 August 2019.

External links edit

  • Stein Rokkan Prize, European Consortium for Political Research