News & Updates

2023-02-07 by Leif Lewin, translation: Hanns Lehner, illustration: Anna Illeby Just before Christmas, European political science lost one of its greatest champions. Jean Blondel (1929–2022), the...

On January 21, the Johan Skytte Foundation board has taken a unanimous decision to remodel the format of the Skytte Prize conferment ceremony. The ceremony will from now on become a biannual event....

2023-01-31 by Michal Grahn We are proud to announce that the Johan Skytte Foundation and the American Political Science Association (APSA) have recently signed a memorandum of understanding...

On October 1, 2022 it is exactly 400 years since Johan Skytte, then vice-chancellor of Uppsala University, signed off a donation through which he founded the Johan Skytte Chair in Eloquence and...

2022-09-27 by Michal Grahn Robert E. Goodin, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Social and Political theory at the Australian National University and the recipient of the 2022 Johan Skytte...

2022-04-27 by Li Bennich-Björkman, illustration: Anna Illeby What runs and runs but never comes to the door? So went a Swedish riddle I heard as a child. The answer was “The clock.” But it could...

2022-04-25 by Michal Smrek, illustration: Anna Illeby Robert E. Goodin is the recipient of the 2022 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. Goodin is awarded the prize for an impressive volume of...

The virtual prize award ceremony of the 2020- and 2021 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science was held on October 1, 2021. A video recording of the ceremony is now available for viewing. View it...

2021-07-04 by Michal Smrek (last update: 2021-09-22), photo: Mikael Wallerstedt We are happy to announce that we will hold a virtual prize award ceremony to celebrate the 2020- and 2021 Skytte Prize...