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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 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
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:
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.
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:
The jury for 2025 will be confirmed.
The winner will be announced in autumn 2025, firstly by the International Science Council.
Columbia Law School
Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
Oxford University Press, 2023
NYU Abu Dhabi
Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State
Princeton University Press, 2022
Penn State University
Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties
Oxford University Press, 2021
London School of Economics and Political Science and University of Melbourne
Cambridge University Press, 2019
Columbia University
Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart
Princeton University Press, 2018
Princeton University
Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics
Princeton University Press, 2017
Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Penn State University
Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival
Oxford University Press, 2015
University of South Carolina
Property, Predation, and Protection: Piranha Capitalism in Russia and Ukraine
Cambridge University Press, 2015
University of Konstanz
Cambridge University Press, 2014
Leuphana University Lüneburg
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Cambridge University Press, 2013
Central European University
Capitalist Diversity on Europe’s Periphery
Cornell University Press, 2012
European University Institute
Quiet Politics & Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe & Japan
Cambridge University Press, 2011
Wesleyan University
Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010
Harvard University
Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics
Cambridge University Press, 2009
Australian National University and Somero Social and Health Services
Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom
Cambridge University Press, 2008
University of Georgia
Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe
Cambridge University Press, 2007
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage and Integration after Communism
Oxford University Press, 2005
University of Birmingham
The Nationalization of Politics
Cambridge University Press, 2004
France
European Cities, Social Conflicts and Governance
Oxford University Press, 2002
Spain
Individual and Systemic Determinants of Electoral Abstention in Western Europe
United States of America
Learning Democracy: Democratic and Economic Values in Unified Germany
Oxford University Press, 1999
The Netherlands
Social Capitalism: A Study of Christian Democracy and the Welfare State
Routledge, 1995