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Swedish Krona>SEKUppsala, Sweden>date=}}The Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science () was established in 1995 by the Johan Skytte Foundation at Uppsala University. The foundation itself goes back to the donation in 1622 from Johan Skytte (1577–1645), politician and chancellor of the university, which established the Skyttean professorship of Eloquence and Government.The prize, 500,000 Swedish kronor (approximately $52,000) is to be given “to the scholar who in the view of the Foundation has made the most valuable contribution to political science”. Since its creation in 1995, the Johan Skytte Prize has garnered a prestigious reputation within the social science community, earning the nickname “the Nobel Prize for Political Science.“WEB,economics.harvard.edu/news/congratulations-professor-amartya-sen-his-award-2017-johan-skytte-prize-political, Congratulations to Professor Amartya Sen on His Award of the 2017 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science!, April 26, 2017, Harvard University Department of Economics, 8 August 2017, 8 August 2017,web.archive.org/web/20170808115005/https://economics.harvard.edu/news/congratulations-professor-amartya-sen-his-award-2017-johan-skytte-prize-political, dead, BOOK, On Democracy: Second Edition, Dahl, Robert, Shapiro, Ian, Yale University Press, 2015, New Haven, Connecticut, vii, According to reputation surveys conducted in 2013–2014 and 2018, it is the most prestigious international academic award in political science.BOOK, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, IREG List of International Academic Awards, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, Brussels,ireg-observatory.org/en/pdfy/IREG-list-academic-awards-EN.pdf, 3 March 2018,ireg-observatory.org/en/pdfy/IREG-list-academic-awards-EN.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20190312125455ireg-observatory.org/en/pdfy/IREG-list-academic-awards-EN.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20190312125455ireg-observatory.org/en/pdfy/IREG-list-academic-awards-EN.pdf, 12 March 2019, dead, JOURNAL, Jiang, Fan, Liu, Niancai, The hierarchical status of international academic awards in social sciences, Scientometrics, 2018, 10.1007/s11192-018-2928-y, JOURNAL, Zheng, Juntao, Liu, Niancai, Mapping of important international academic awards, Scientometrics, 2015, 104, 763–791, 10.1007/s11192-015-1613-7,

Recipients of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science{| class“wikitable sortable” align“center”

! width=“5%” |Year! colspan=“2” width=“15%” |Recipient! width=“15%” |Country! width=“50%” |Rationale! width=“15%” |Affiliation|1995100x100px)Robert A. Dahl>Robert Alan Dahl(1915–2014)United States of America}}Polyarchy>democratic theory, characterized by deep learning and breadth of mind, combined with epochal empirical studies of the actual functioning of representative government”.HTTP://SKYTTEPRIZE.STATSVET.UU.SE/PRIZEWINNERS/TABID/1953/LANGUAGE/EN-US/DEFAULT.ASPX>TITLE=THE JOHAN SKYTTE PRIZE IN POLITICAL SCIENCEARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20090507145830/HTTP://SKYTTEPRIZE.STATSVET.UU.SE/PRIZEWINNERS/TABID/1953/LANGUAGE/EN-US/DEFAULT.ASPX, May 7, 2009, |Professor emeritus, Yale University|1996||Juan José Linz(1926–2013)Spain}}{{flag|Germany}}{{flag|United States of America}}Authoritarianism#Authoritarian government and states>authoritarian threat, characterized by methodological versatility and historical and sociological breadth”.|Professor, Yale University|1997|Arend Lijphart>Arend d’Angremond Lijphart(b. 1936)United Kingdom}}{{flag|Netherlands}}{{flag|United States of America}}|“for his theoretically and empirically pathbreaking research on the function of consensus in democratic politics in divided as well as in homogeneous societies”.|Professor, University of California, San Diego|1998||Alexander L. George(1920–2006)United States of America}}|“for his pathbreaking analysis of statecraft, its possibilities and limits, performed with great sensitivity for the importance of judgement, reasoned argumentation and responsible leadership in foreign policy decision-making”.|Professor, Stanford University|1999100x100px)Elinor Ostrom>Elinor Claire Ostrom(1933–2012)United States of America}}|“for her profound, empirical as well as theoretical, analysis of the nature of collective action and rational choice”.|Professor, Indiana University Bloomington|2000||Fritz W. Scharpf(b. 1935)Germany}}|“for having analysed key concepts of political science with theoretical clarity and empirical thoroughness during an era of transnational change”.Max Planck Institute>Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne|2001100x100px)|Brian Barry(1936–2009)United Kingdom}}{{flag|United States of America}}|“for his profound contribution to normative political theory performed with passion as well as clarity in the grand tradition from the Enlightenment.“|Professor, Columbia University, London School of Economics|2002||Sidney Verba(1932–2019)United States of America}}The Civic Culture>analysis of political participation and its significance for the functioning of democracy.“|Professor, Harvard University|2003|Hanna Pitkin>Hanna Fenichel Pitkin(1931–2023)Germany}}{{flag|United States of America}}Representation (politics)#Theories>representation.“|Professor emerita, University of California, Berkeley|2004100x100px)|Jean Blondel(1929–2022)France}}|“for his outstanding contribution to the professionalisation of European political science, both as a pioneering comparativist and an institution builder“|Professor, European University Institute, Florence|2005100x100px)Robert Keohane>Robert Owen Keohane(b. 1941)United States of America}}|“for his significant contribution to our understanding of world politics in an era of interdependence, globalisation and terrorism.“|Professor, Princeton University|2006100x100px)Robert D. Putnam>Robert David Putnam(b. 1941)United States of America}}Bowling Alone>social capital.“|Professor, Harvard University|2007100x100px)|Theda Skocpol(b. 1947)United States of America}}States and Social Revolutions>revolutions, welfare and political trust, pursued with theoretical depth and empirical evidence.“NEWSMAKERS > WEBSITE=HARVARD GAZETTE URL=HTTPS://NEWS.HARVARD.EDU/GAZETTE/STORY/2007/04/NEWSMAKERS-31/ ARCHIVE-DATE=21 SEPTEMBER 2020 URL-STATUS=LIVE, |Professor, Harvard University|2008 100x100px)|Rein Taagepera(b. 1933)Estonia}}{{flag|United States of America}}|“for his profound analysis of the function of electoral systems in representative democracy”.|Professor, University of Tartu and professor emeritus, University of California, Irvine|2009100x100px)|Philippe C. Schmitter(b. 1936)United States of America}}|“for his path-breaking work on the role of corporatism in modern democracies, and for his stimulating and innovative analysis of democratization”.|Professorial fellow, European University Institute, Florence|2010||Adam Przeworski(b. 1940)Poland}}{{flag|United States of America}}|“raising the scientific standards regarding the analysis of the relations between democracy, capitalism and economic development.“|Professor, New York University2011|Ronald Inglehart>Ronald F. Inglehart(1934–2021)United States of America}}“for contributing innovative ideas about the relevance and roots of political culture in a global context, transcending previous mainstream approaches of research.“HTTP://WWW.UU.SE/EN/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/PRESS-RELEASE/?ID=1352&AREA=2,3,16&TYP=PM&LANG=EN>TITLE=THIS YEAR’S JOHAN SKYTTE PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCEDWEBSITE=UPPSALA UNIVERSITETARCHIVE-DATE=8 AUGUST 2017URL-STATUS=LIVE, |Professor, University of Michigan 100x100px)|Pippa Norris(b. 1953)United Kingdom}}{{flag|United States of America}}|Professor, Harvard University|2012100x100px)|Carole Pateman(b. 1940)United Kingdom}}{{flag|United States of America}}DATE=AUGUST 7, 2017ACCESS-DATE=22 APRIL 2017ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20161005232547/HTTP://SKYTTEPRIZE.COM/, live, |Professor emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles|2013100x100px)Robert Axelrod>Robert Marshall Axelrod(b. 1943)United States of America}}The Evolution of Cooperation>preconditions for human cooperation.“|Professor, University of Michigan|2014| David Collier (political scientist)>David Collier (b. 1942)United States of America}}Qualitative research>qualitative methods in Political Science.“|Professor, University of California, Berkeley|2015100x100px)Francis Fukuyama>Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama(b. 1952)United States of America}}The End of History and the Last Man>growth of modern political order.“|Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University|2016100x100px)|Jon Elster (b. 1940)Norway}}|“for incisive, penetrating, and unceasing drive to examine and reexamine that which explains human behavior.“|Robert K. Merton Professor in Social Sciences, Columbia University|2017100x100px)Amartya Sen>Amartya Kumar Sen (b. 1933)India}}|for his multifaceted achievement that “combines insights into human vulnerability with knowledge about the potential of democratic political power to redress and relieve this deprivation.“|Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, Harvard University|2018100x100px)|Jane Mansbridge (b. 1939)United States of America}}|for “having shaped our understanding of democracy in its direct and representative forms, with incisiveness, deep commitment and feminist theory.“|Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard University|2019frameless|150x100px)|Margaret Levi (b. 1947)United States of America}}|for “having laid the foundations of our understanding of why citizens accept state coercion, by combining theoretical acumen and historical knowledge.“| Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) and professor of political science, Stanford University|2020||Peter J. Katzenstein(b. 1945)Germany}}{{Flag|United States of America}}Constructivism (international relations)>history, culture, and norms shape economies, as well as national and global security policy.“|Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University|2021||David D. Laitin(b. 1945)United States of America}}|for his “original and objective explanation of how politics shapes cultural strategies in heterogeneous societies.“|James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University|2022frameless|100x100px)|Robert E. Goodin(b. 1950)Australia}}{{Flag|United States of America}}| for his impressive work in which he “with acuity and success endeavored to blend political philosophy with empirical political science to increase the understanding of how decent and dignified societies can be shaped.“|Professor emeritus, Australian National University2023||Alexander Wendt(b. 1958)United States of America}}“for having formulated and empirically demonstrated the fruitfulness of constructivism, thus renewing and deepening the understanding of international politics.“HTTPS://WWW.SKYTTEPRIZE.COM/WENFINN-PRESS/>TITLE=ALEXANDER WENDT AND MARTHA FINNEMORE AWARDED THE JOHAN SKYTTE PRIZE IN POLITICAL SCIENCEWEBSITE=THE JOHAN SKYTTE PRIZEARCHIVE-DATE=3 JUNE 2023URL-STATUS=LIVE, |Mershon Professor of International Security and Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University ||Martha Finnemore(b. 1959)United States of America}}|University Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University

External links

• The Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, official website

Literature

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References

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