Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science

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The Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (in Swedish Skytteanska priset) 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 crowns (approximately $70,000) is to be given "to the scholar who in the view of the Foundation has made the most valuable contribution to political science".

[edit] Recipients of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science

Year	Recipient
1995	Robert A. Dahl (b. 1915), professor emeritus, Yale University
1996	Juan J. Linz (b. 1926), professor, Yale University
1997	Arend Lijphart (b. 1936), professor, University of California, San Diego
1998	Alexander L. George (1920-2006), professor, Stanford University
1999	Elinor Ostrom, professor, Indiana University Bloomington
2000	Fritz W. Scharpf, professor, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne
2001	Brian Barry (b. 1936), professor, Columbia University
2002	Sidney Verba (b. 1932), professor, Harvard University
2003	Hanna Pitkin, professor emerita, University of California, Berkeley
2004	Jean Blondel (b. 1929), professor, European University Institute, Florence
2005	Robert Keohane (b. 1941), professor, Princeton University
2006	Robert Putnam (b. 1941), professor, Harvard University
2007	Theda Skocpol (b. 1947), professor, Harvard University
2008	Rein Taagepera (b. 1933), professor, University of California, Irvine