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Stein Rokkan Prize

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The annual Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research is presented by the International Science Council (ISC), the University of Bergen and the ECPR. Thanks to the generosity of the University of Bergen, it now carries a prize fund of €5,000. 

The prize is open to works in comparative studies from all social science disciplines. It is given to a submission deemed by the Jury to be a substantial and original contribution in comparative social science research.

Nominations for the 2025 award will open in January 2025.


Stein Rokkan

About Stein Rokkan

Stein Rokkan was a pioneer of comparative political and social science research, renowned, among other things, for his groundbreaking work on the nation state and democracy.

A brilliant researcher and a professor at the University of Bergen, where he spent most of his career, Rokkan was also president of the International Social Science Council (an organisation that merged to form the ISC in 2018), and one of the founder members of the ECPR.

Nominations open: 17 January 2025
Nominations close: 24 April 2025

Submitting a nomination

To nominate, please use the Nomination Form which will display at the top of this page during the nomination period.

Nominations can be made by scientific institutions (including Universities and Departments, Research Centres, Academies, disciplinary unions or associations and Research Institutions), and should come via the head of the organisation/department.

Only one nomination may be received per institution. Institutions do not need to be members of either the ISC or ECPR.

Nominations must include, as three separate PDF files:

  • Formal nomination letter expressing support of the nominee's candidacy for this award (Document 1)
  • Biography of the candidate including an outline of their work and research interests (Document 2)
  • Book title and year of publication (Document 2)
  • A PDF copy of the book (Document 3) (please note this must be a searchable PDF)

Eligibility 

  • The Stein Rokkan Prize is open to candidates from all social science disciplines, who need not be affiliated with a Member institution of either the ISC or ECPR.
  • The work should be a substantial and original contribution to comparative social science research.
  • The work must be a published monograph. Unpublished manuscripts, edited collections, and collected works are not eligible.
  • The book must have been published within the two calendrical years preceding the award. For the Stein Rokkan Prize 2025, books must have been published in 2023 or 2024. No book should be nominated in more than one year.
  • The work should preferably be in English; however, a submission written in another language can be nominated as long as it is accompanied by an English summary of the work.

After the closing date for nominations, publishers may be asked to provide copies of the book in alternative formats for the members of the jury.

Exclusions

  • Self-nominations are not accepted.
  • Nominations from publishers and agencies are not accepted.
  • Members of the ECPR Executive Committee, ISC Governing Board and Secretariat, and ECPR Editors are not eligible for this prize during their term and for a certain buffer period afterwards. 
    • Members of the Executive Committee and ISC Governing Board become eligible after three buffer years, the ISC Secretariat and ECPR editors after one. The requirement that a work have been published in the previous two years may be waived in this case.

Jury

The Jury for this prize is Chaired by a member of the ECPR Executive Committee, and includes a representative from the Universitetet i Bergen and the ISC, as well as two other eminent scholars in the field of social science.

The Jury for 2024 comprised:

  • Amy Verdun, Chair, member of the Executive Committee, University of Victoria
  • Kristin Strømsnes, University of Bergen
  • Marta Arretche, University of São Paulo
  • Amy G. Mazur, Washington State University
  • Dimiter Toshkov, Leiden University

The jury for 2025 will be confirmed.

Prize announcement and delivery

The winner will be announced in autumn 2025, firstly by the International Science Council.

Questions? Email prizes@ecpr.eu

2024 – Anu Bradford

Anu Bradford

Columbia Law School

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

Oxford University Press, 2023


2023 – Elisabeth Anderson


2022 – Vineeta Yadav

2022 – Vineeta Yadav

Penn State University

Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties

Oxford University Press, 2021


2021 – Ran Hirschl

Ran Hirschl

University of Toronto

City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity

Oxford University Press, 2020


2020 – Jeffrey M. Chwieroth and Andrew Walter

Jeffrey M. Chwierotht Andrew Walteri

London School of Economics and Political Science and University of Melbourne

The Wealth Effect: How the Great Expectations of the Middle Class Have Changed the Politics of Banking Crises

Cambridge University Press, 2019


2019 – Andreas Wimmer


2018 – Rafaela Dancygier

Rafaela Dancygier

Princeton University

Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics

Princeton University Press, 2017


2017 – Abel Escribà-Folch and Joseph Wright

Abel Escribà-Folcht Joseph Wright

Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Penn State University

Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival

Oxford University Press, 2015


2016 – Stanislav Markus


2015 – Marius Busemeyer


2014 – Christian Welzel

Christian Welzel

Leuphana University Lüneburg

Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

Cambridge University Press, 2013


2013 – Dorothee Bohle & Béla Greskovits

Dorothee Bohle and Béla Greskovits

Central European University

Capitalist Diversity on Europe’s Periphery

Cornell University Press, 2012


2012 – Pepper D. Culpepper

Pepper D. Culpepper

European University Institute

Quiet Politics & Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe & Japan

Cambridge University Press, 2011


2011 – James McGuire

James McGuire

Wesleyan University

Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010


2010 – Beth A. Simmons

Beth A. Simmons

Harvard University

Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics

Cambridge University Press, 2009


2009 – Robert E Goodin, James Mahmud Rice, Antti Parpo, Lina Eriksson

Australian National University and Somero Social and Health Services

Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom

Cambridge University Press, 2008


2008 – Cas Mudde

University of Georgia

Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe

Cambridge University Press, 2007


2006 – Milada Anna Vachudova

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage and Integration after Communism

Oxford University Press, 2005


2004 – Daniele Caramania

University of Birmingham

The Nationalization of Politics

Cambridge University Press, 2004


2002 – Patrick Le Galès

France

European Cities, Social Conflicts and Governance

Oxford University Press, 2002


2000 – Eva Anduiza-Perea

Spain

Individual and Systemic Determinants of Electoral Abstention in Western Europe


1998 – Robert Rohrschneider

United States of America

Learning Democracy: Democratic and Economic Values in Unified Germany

Oxford University Press, 1999


1996 – Kees van Kersbergen

The Netherlands

Social Capitalism: A Study of Christian Democracy and the Welfare State

Routledge, 1995