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Elinor Claire Ostrom

1999

Elinor Ostrom wins the 1999 Johan Skytte Prize "for her profound, empirical as well as theoretical, analysis of the nature of collective action and rational choice."

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Prize Laureate illustration

Illustration by Anna Ileby

Johan Skytte Prize

in Political Science

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The Johan Skytte chair in Political Science and Eloquence is highly likely the world’s oldest active professorship in political science. The original donation made in 1622 continues to finance research and the Johan Skytte Prize. The prize money of SEK 500,000 is awarded every year by the Johan Skytte Foundation in Uppsala to those who made most valuable contributions to political science.

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The Johan Skytte Foundation

Valvgatan 4

753 10 Uppsala

Sweden

markus.sjolen@statsvet.uu.se

+46 73-656 88 03

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Organisation no: 817603-3028

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Main website photographer Mikael Wallerstedt

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Main website illustrator Anna Ileby

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Website designer Tove Hellkvist

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