For his “original and objective explanation of how politics shapes cultural strategies in heterogeneous societies.”

For “furthering the understanding of how history, culture, and norms shape economies, as well as national and global security policy.”

For “having laid the foundations of our understanding of why citizens accept state coercion, by combining theoretical acumen and historical knowledge.”

For “having shaped our understanding of democracy in its direct and representative forms, with incisiveness, deep commitment and feminist theory.”

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.”

For “incisive, penetrating, and unceasing drive to examine and reexamine that which explains human behavior.”

For “breath-taking learnedness, clarity and courage thrown new light over the growth of modern political order.”

For “his contribution to the conceptual development and the re-thinking of qualitative methods in political science.”

For “profoundly having changed our presumptions about the preconditions for human cooperation.”

For “in a thought-provoking way challenging established ideas about participation, sex and equality.”

For “contributing innovative ideas about the relevance and roots of political culture in a global context, transcending previous mainstream approaches of research.”

For “raising the scientific standards regarding the analysis of the relations between democracy, capitalism and economic development.”

For “his path-breaking work on the role of corporatism in modern democracies, and for his stimulating and innovative analysis of democratization.”

For “his profound analysis of the function of electoral systems in representative democracy.”

For “her visionary analysis of the significance of the state for revolutions, welfare and poltical trust, pursued withy theoretical depth and empirical evidence.”

For “his theory of the social capital.”

For “his significant contribution to our understanding of world politics in an era of interdependence, globalisation and terrorism.”

For “his outstanding contribution to the professionalisation of European political science, both as a pioneering comparativist and an institution builder.”

For “her pathbreaking theoretical work, predominantly on the problem of representation.”

For “his penetrating empirical analysis of political participation and its significance for the functioning of democracy.”

For “his profound contribution to normative political theory performed with passion as well as clarity in the grand tradition from the Enlightenment.”

For “having analysed key concepts of political science with theoretical clarity and empirical thoroughness during an era of transnational change.”

For “her profound, empirical as well as theoretical, analysis of the nature of collective action and rational choice.”

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.”

For “his theoretically and empirically pathbreaking research on the function of consensus in democratic politics in divided as well as in homogeneous societies.”

For “his global investigation of the fragility of democracy in the face of the authoritarian threat, characterized by methodological versatility and historical and sociological breadth.”

For “his penetrating analysis of democratic theory, characterized by deep learning and breadth of mind, combined with epochal empirical studies of the actual functioning of representative government.”