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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 science|political scientist]] and [[Sociology|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.<ref name="ISC">{{cite web|title=Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research|url=https://council.science/our-work/stein-rokkan-prize/|website=International Science Council|accessdate=22 November 2024}}</ref><ref name="ECPR">{{cite web|title=Stein Rokkan Prize|url=https://ecpr.eu/prizes/stein-rokkan|website=European Consortium for Political Research|accessdate=22 November 2024}}</ref> The monograph must have been published within the two calendrical years preceding the award. The prize is awarded annually and is worth €5000.<ref name="ISC" /><ref name="ECPR" />

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]].<ref>{{cite book|author=IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence|title=IREG List of International Academic Awards|publisher=[[IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence]]|location=Brussels|url=https://ireg-observatory.org/en/pdfy/ireg-list-academic-awards.pdf|accessdate=20 June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Zheng|first1=Juntao|last2=Liu|first2=Niancai|title=Mapping of important international academic awards|journal=Scientometrics|date=2015|volume=104|issue=3 |pages=763–791|doi=10.1007/s11192-015-1613-7|s2cid=255009397 }}</ref> 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]]).<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Jiang|first1=Fan|last2=Liu|first2=Niancai|title=The hierarchical status of international academic awards in social sciences|journal=Scientometrics|date=2018|volume=117 |issue=3 |pages=2091–2115 |doi=10.1007/s11192-018-2928-y|s2cid=255010896 }}</ref>

==Prize winners==
Sources: The International Science Council<ref name="ISC" /> and the European Consortium for Political Research.<ref name="ECPR" />

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" class="unsortable" |
! scope="col" | Prize winner
! scope="col" | Country
! scope="col" | Work
|-
|1981
|
|[[Manfred G. Schmidt]]
|{{flag|Germany}}
|''Wohlfahrtsstaatliche Politik unter bürgerlichen und sozialdemokratischen Regierungen: Ein internationaler Vergleich''
|-
|1983
|
|[[Jens Alber]]
|{{flag|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''),<br>"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
|
|{{ill|Louis M. Imbeau|fr}}
|{{flag|Canada}}
|''Donor Aid: The Determinants of Development Allocations to Third World Countries''
|-
|1988
|[[File:Ragin.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|alt=Charles Ragin]]
|[[Charles C. Ragin]]
|{{flag|United States}}
|''The Comparative Method: Moving beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies''
|-
|rowspan="2" | 1990
|[[File:Stefano Bartolini (8802121703).jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|alt=Stefano Bartolini]]
|[[Stefano Bartolini]]
|{{flag|Italy}}
|rowspan="2" |''Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability: The Stabilisation of European Electorates 1885-1985'' 
|-
|
|[[Peter Mair]]
|{{flag|Ireland}}<br>{{flag|Italy}}<br>{{flag|Netherlands}}
|-
|1992
|
|[[Kaare Strøm (political scientist)|Kaare Strøm]]
|{{flag|Norway}}
|''Minority Government and Majority Rule''
|-
|1996
|
|{{ill|Kees van Kersbergen|de}}
|{{flag|Netherlands}}
|''Social Capitalism: A Study of Christian Democracy and the Welfare State''
|-
|1998
|
|{{ill|Robert Rohrschneider|de}}
|{{flag|Germany}}<br>{{flag|United States}}
|''Learning Democracy: Democratic and Economic Values in Unified Germany''
|-
|2000
|
|{{ill|Eva Anduiza Perea|de|Eva Anduiza}}
|{{flag|Spain}}
|''Individual and Systemic Determinants of Electoral Abstention in Western Europe''
|-
|2002
|[[File:Reconfiguring European States in Crisis - A Lunch Talk by Patrick Le Gales, April 5, 2017.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|alt=Patrick Le Galès]]
|Patrick Le Galès
|{{flag|France}}
|''European Cities: Social Conflicts and Governance''
|-
|2004
|[[File:Daniele Caramani 3.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|alt=Daniele Caramani]]
|[[Daniele Caramani]]
|{{flag|Italy}}<br>{{flag|Switzerland}}
|''The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe''
|-
|2006
|
|{{ill|Milada Anna Vachudova|de|Milada Anna Vachudová}}
|{{flag|United States}}
|''Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage, and Integration after Communism''
|-
|2008
|[[File:Cas Mudde in 2018 05.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|alt=Cas Mudde]]
|[[Cas Mudde]]
|{{flag|Belgium}}<br>{{flag|Netherlands}}
|''Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe''
|-
|rowspan="4" | 2009
|[[File:Robert E. Goodin February 2006.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|alt=Robert E. Goodin]]
|[[Robert E. Goodin]]
|{{flag|Australia}}<br>{{flag|United States}}
|rowspan="4" |''[[Discretionary Time|Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom]]''
|-
|[[File:James Mahmud Rice February 2006.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|alt=James Mahmud Rice]]
|[[James Mahmud Rice]]
|{{flag|Australia}}<br>{{flag|United States}}
|-
|[[File:Antti Parpo February 2006.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|alt=Antti Parpo]]
|Antti Parpo
|{{flag|Finland}}
|-
|[[File:Lina Eriksson February 2006.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|alt=Lina Eriksson]]
|Lina Eriksson
|{{flag|Australia}}<br>{{flag|Sweden}}
|-
|2010
|[[File:Beth A. Simmons 2012_04.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|alt=Beth A. Simmons]]
|[[Beth A. Simmons]]
|{{flag|United States}}
|''Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics''
|-
|2011
|
|James W. McGuire
|{{flag|United States}}
|''Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America''
|-
|2012
|
|[[Pepper D. Culpepper]]
|{{flag|Italy}}<br>{{flag|United States}}
|''Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan''
|-
|rowspan="2" | 2013
|rowspan="2" |
|[[Dorothee Bohle]]
|{{flag|Germany}}<br>{{flag|Hungary}}
|rowspan="2" |''Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery''
|-
|{{ill|Béla Greskovits|de}}
|{{flag|Hungary}}
|-
|2014
|[[File:Christian Welzel, Political Scientist.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|alt=Christian Welzel]]
|[[Christian Welzel]]
|{{flag|Germany}}
|[[Freedom Rising|''Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation'']]
|-
|2015
|
|{{ill|Marius R. Busemeyer|de}}
|{{flag|Germany}}
|''Skills and Inequality: Partisan Politics and the Political Economy of Education Reforms in Western Welfare States''
|-
|2016
|
|Stanislav Markus
|{{flag|United States}}
|''Property, Predation, and Protection: Piranha Capitalism in Russia and Ukraine''
|-
|rowspan="2" | 2017
|rowspan="2" |
|Abel Escribà-Folch
|{{flag|Spain}}
|rowspan="2" |''Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival''
|-
|Joseph Wright
|{{flag|United States}}
|-
|2018
|[[File:Hating and Mating How Fears over Mate Competition Shape Violent Hate Crime against Refugees — A lecture by Rafaela Dancygier (47547367502).jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|alt=Rafaela M. Dancygier]]
|[[Rafaela Dancygier|Rafaela M. Dancygier]]
|{{flag|United States}}
|''Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics''
|-
|2019
|
|[[Andreas Wimmer]]
|{{flag|Switzerland}}<br>{{flag|United States}}
|''Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together while Others Fall Apart''
|-
|rowspan="2" | 2020
|rowspan="2" |
|Jeffrey M. Chwieroth
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}<br>{{flag|United States}}
|rowspan="2" |''The Wealth Effect: How the Great Expectations of the Middle Class Have Changed the Politics of Banking Crises''
|-
|Andrew Walter
|{{flag|Australia}}
|-
|2021
|
|[[Ran Hirschl]]
|{{flag|Canada}}
|''City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity''
|-
|2022
|[[File:Vineeta-Yadav-edited-150x150.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|alt=Vineeta Yadav]]
|Vineeta Yadav
|{{flag|India}}<br>{{flag|United States}}
|''Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties''
|-
|2023
|[[File:Elisabeth_Anderson.png|frameless|upright=0.45|alt=Elisabeth Anderson]]
|Elisabeth Anderson
|{{flag|Germany}}<br>{{flag|United Arab Emirates}}<br>{{flag|United States}}
|''Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State''
|-
|2024
|[[File:AnuBradford.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|alt=Anu Bradford]]
|[[Anu Bradford]]
|{{Flag|Finland}}<br>{{Flag|United States}}
|''Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology''
|}

==See also==

* [[List of social sciences awards]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://council.science/our-work/stein-rokkan-prize/ Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research, International Science Council]
*[https://ecpr.eu/prizes/stein-rokkan Stein Rokkan Prize, European Consortium for Political Research]

[[Category:Awards established in 1981]]
[[Category:International academic awards]]
[[Category:Political science awards]]
[[Category:Political science organizations]]
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[[Category:Sociology awards]]
[[Category:International Science Council]]
[[Category:European Consortium for Political Research]]
[[Category:Winners of the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research]]