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The Mattei Dogan Foundation Prize in European Political Sociology
General Information:
Political sociology studies political life by sociological methods, combining theory and empirical evidence;
it is the domain where the best of political science overlaps the best of sociology. The Dogan Foundation Prize
in European Political Sociology is awarded by the European Consortium of Political Research to a scholar who
has produced a major contribution to the advancement of political sociology by an ensemble of outstanding
scientific publications and constructive professional achievements. The prize may also be offered to a coherent
team of several researchers enjoying a high reputation in the international community of political sociologists.
The jury is composed of four or five scholars designated by the ECPR Executive Committee.
The prize is conferred every two years at one of the plenary sessions of the ECPR General Conference.
The amount of the prize is 3000 U.S. dollars.
Eligibility criteria:
All scholars residing in a country defined as European by the criteria for full membership of the ECPR
are eligible. The prize is awarded exclusively on scientific and academic criteria, at the exclusion of
any ascriptive characteristic.
The current members of the ECPR Executive Committee are not eligible for this prize. Former members become
eligible three years after the end of their mandate.
The recipient is chosen among scholars who would normally be less than 75 years old on the 1st of January of
the year of the prize, because it is presumed that at this stage in their careers, the eminent scholars have
already seen their merits recognized and recompensed. In exceptional cases, the ECPR executive committee may
forgo this requirement. The age condition is not applicable to the former members of the ECPR executive committee.
Nominations:
The deadline for nominations for the 2011 Prize is 1 March 2011
The documents required for a nominee's dossier are
a) biography and bibliography of the nominee
b) evidence of the visibility of the nominee in the literature
c) letters of recommendation from well-known scholars who may not be necessarily ECPR members
d) any document that would enhance the merits of the nominee.
Nomination for the prize can be made by ECPR member institutions, or from outside the ECPR by professional
associations, universities, or research centers. Two or three political sociologists may jointly nominate
a candidate.
Nominations should be sent to the ECPR's Administrative Director either by emailor
by post to ECPR Central Services, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, COLCHESTER CO4 3SQ, Essex, UK.
2009 Prize Winner
Professor Richard Rose has been awarded the
2009 Prize in Political Sociology, given
jointly by the Fondation Mattei Dogan and
the European
Consortium for Political Research. A
founding father of the ECPR, he has been one
of the biggest names in political science
and 'political
sociology' since the late 1950s and early
1960s. He has written frequently and across
the range and has published on Northern
Ireland,
the United States English and British
Politics, and most recently post-Communist
politics. He has been widely translated and
served the
profession across the world. His most recent
publication, Parties and Elections in New
European Democracies (with Neil Munro) was
published by
ECPR Press in April 2009. The Prize will be
awarded at a special ceremony during the
ECPR's General Conference in Potsdam in
September
2009.
2007 Prize Winner
Giovanni Sartori was awarded the 2007 Dogan Foundation Prize during the 4th ECPR General Conference at
the University of Pisa in September 2007.
Born in Florence in 1924, Giovanni Sartori graduated in Political and Social Sciences at the University of
Florence in 1946 where, after qualifying for teaching History of Modern Philosophy and Doctrine of the State,
he became lecturer of Modern Philosophy (1950-56) and Political Science (1956-63), and professor of Sociology
(1963-66). After becoming full professor of Political Science and teaching at Florence University from 1966
to 1976 he taught also at the European University Institute (1974-76) and later became professor of Political
Science at Stanford University (1976-79). Professor Sartori is currently Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus
in the Humanities at Columbia University, New York (since 1994), and Professor Emeritus at the University of
Florence (since 1992). After having given a vital contribution to the development of the «Rassegna Italiana di
Sociologia», Professor Sartori was the founder and long time director of the «Rivista Italiana di Scienza
Politica» (1971-2003).
He has received numerous honours, awards and prizes, among which the Gold Medal for cultural and educational
merits from the President of the Italian Republic, the Outstanding Book Award of the American Political Science
Association (Apsa) for Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis (1998), the Principe de Asturias
Prize in the Social Sciences (2005), the ECPR Lifetime Achievement Award (2005), the APSA - Methodology
Section - Lifetime Achievement Award (2006).
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