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Lifetime Achievement Award
The ECPR's Lifetime Achievement Award is presented on a biennial basis to a scholar who has made an outstanding
contribution to European political science. The next prize will be awarded in 2009 during the Potsdam General
Conference.
The deadline for nominations for the 2009 Prize is 1 March, 2009.
Nomination Procedure:
- All nominations should be accompanied by (a) a curriculum vitae and bibliography of the nominee(s) and
(b) a letter(s) of recommendation from the nominator(s).
- The prize is conferred every two years at an award ceremony
at the European Consortium for Political Research's General Conference.
- The amount of the prize is 5000 euros. The ECPR will also cover travel within Europe (standard class) and
accommodation for the laureate to attend the prize giving ceremony.
- The jury will be composed of the ECPR Chair and two other scholars chosen by the ECPR Executive Committee.
The Academic Director will also be an ex-officio member of the jury.
- Nominations for the prize can be made by the Official Representatives of ECPR member institutions or by
national political science associations.
- Current members of the ECPR Executive Committee are not eligible for this prize.
- Nominations should be sent by email to the ECPR Central Services.
Nominations must normally be received 1 March in the year the prize is to be awarded.
- A copy of the jury's report and laudatio will be made publicly available.
2009 ECPR Lifetime Achievement Award
Gerhard Lehmbruch was awarded the 2009 ECPR Lifetime Achievement Award during the 5th ECPR General Conference
at the University of Potsdam in September 2009 for his outstanding contribution to European Political Science
Gerhard Lehmbruch is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz, Germany,
and has been President of the German Political Science Association and Vice-president of the
International Political Science Association. After studying political science, history, and sociology
in Paris and Tübingen from 1954-59, he received his doctor’s degree in Tübingen in 1961, where he also
habilitated in 1969. From 1969-1973 he worked as academic assistant and professor in Heidelberg,
followed by professorships in Tübingen (1973-1978) and Konstanz (1978-1996).
His research focused on institutions, political regulation and comparative politics, including
his studies on “negotiated democracy” and structural incongruence between federal state polities
and party competition (‘Strukturbruchthese’). In 2003, the German Political Science Association
honoured him with the Theodor-Eschenburg-Prize for his lifetime achievements.
2007 ECPR Lifetime Achievement Award
Philippe Schmitter was awarded the 2007 ECPR Lifetime Achievement Award during the 4th ECPR General Conference
at the University of Pisa in September 2007 for his outstanding contribution to European Political Science
Philippe Schmitter (1936) studied at the Graduate Institute for International Studies of the University of
Geneva and subsequently took his doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1967 he was
appointed as assistant professor by the Department of Political Science of the University of Chicago,
where he later became full professor. Between 1986 and 1996 he taught at the European University Institute
(1982-86), then moved to Stanford (1986-96). He taught again at the EUI until 2004 and was thereafter
nominated Professorial Fellow of the Department of Social and Political Sciences of that Institute.
Prof. Schmitter has published numerous books and articles on comparative politics, on regional integration
in Western Europe and Latin America, on the transition from authoritarian rule in Southern Europe and Latin
America, and on the intermediation of class, sectoral and professional interests.
2005 ECPR Lifetime Achievement Award
The prize was conferred for the first time during the Budapest General Conference in September 2005 to
Giovanni Sartori on the grounds of his substantive and organisational contribution to European Political
Science over a long career. Particular mention was made of the application of his theory of parties to
the study of European party systems and his founding of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica.
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