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 who have made "a very substantial and original contribution in comparative social science research" in the form of a published monograph. The monograph must have been published within the two calendrical years preceding the award. The prize is awarded annually and is worth €5000.
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. 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).
Prize winners Year Image Prize winner Country Work1981Manfred G. SchmidtWohlfahrtsstaatliche Politik unter bürgerlichen und sozialdemokratischen Regierungen: Ein internationaler Vergleich1983Jens AlberVom 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")1986Donor Aid: The Determinants of Development Allocations to Third World Countries1988Charles C. RaginThe Comparative Method: Moving beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies 1990Stefano BartoliniIdentity, Competition and Electoral Availability: The Stabilisation of European Electorates 1885-1985 Peter Mair1992Kaare StrømMinority Government and Majority Rule1996Social Capitalism: A Study of Christian Democracy and the Welfare State1998Learning Democracy: Democratic and Economic Values in Unified Germany2000Individual and Systemic Determinants of Electoral Abstention in Western Europe2002Patrick Le GalèsEuropean Cities: Social Conflicts and Governance2004Daniele CaramaniThe Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe2006Milada Anna VachudováEurope Undivided: Democracy, Leverage, and Integration after Communism2008Cas MuddePopulist Radical Right Parties in Europe 2009Robert E. GoodinDiscretionary Time: A New Measure of FreedomJames Mahmud RiceAntti ParpoLina Eriksson2010Beth A. SimmonsMobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics2011James W. McGuireWealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America2012Pepper D. CulpepperQuiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan 2013Dorothee BohleCapitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery2014Christian WelzelFreedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation2015Skills and Inequality: Partisan Politics and the Political Economy of Education Reforms in Western Welfare States2016Stanislav MarkusProperty, Predation, and Protection: Piranha Capitalism in Russia and Ukraine 2017Abel Escribà-FolchForeign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic SurvivalJoseph Wright2018Rafaela M. DancygierDilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics2019Andreas WimmerNation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together while Others Fall Apart 2020Jeffrey M. ChwierothThe Wealth Effect: How the Great Expectations of the Middle Class Have Changed the Politics of Banking CrisesAndrew Walter2021Ran HirschlCity, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity2022Vineeta YadavReligious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties2023Elisabeth AndersonAgents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State2024Anu BradfordDigital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology2025Vicente ValentimThe Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand Sources: The International Science Council and the European Consortium for Political Research.
See also
List of social sciences awards
References
External links Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research, International Science Council Stein Rokkan Prize, European Consortium for Political Research