The Pisa conference was also the occasion for presenting three of the
ECPR's prizes. The first was the ECPR's Lifetime Achievement Award
for an outstanding contribution to European political science, which
went to an American: Philippe Schmitter (European University,
Florence, and formerly Stanford University). Second, the annual Jean
Blondel Ph.D. Prize was awarded to Tanja Aalberts (Leiden
University) for her dissertation on the politics of sovereignty.
Finally, the Mattei Dogan Foundation Prize in European Political
Sociology went to Giovanni Sartori (professor emeritus, University
of Florence and Columbia University).