Stein Rokkan Prize / en Ran Hirschl receives 2021 Stein Rokkan Prize /celebrates/ran-hirschl-receives-2021-stein-rokkan-prize <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Ran Hirschl receives 2021 Stein Rokkan Prize</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-10-07T12:42:37-04:00" title="Thursday, October 7, 2021 - 12:42" class="datetime">Thu, 10/07/2021 - 12:42</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-law" hreflang="en">Faculty of Law</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/stein-rokkan-prize" hreflang="en">Stein Rokkan Prize</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Hirschl-03-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Ran Hirschl"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The University of Toronto’s <strong>Ran Hirschl</strong> has won <a href="https://ecpr.eu/prizes/prizedetails.aspx?PrizeID=6">the 2021 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research</a> for his book <i><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/city-state-9780190922771?cc=ca&amp;lang=en&amp;">City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity</a></i> (Oxford University Press, 2020).</p> <p>“Like many others, I studied Rokkan’s groundbreaking work in my comparative politics courses back in the day,” said Hirschl, a professor in the department of political science at the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science and in the Faculty of Law. “Writing a book of this scope on a vitally important yet understudied topic at the intersection of public law and comparative politics requires tremendous devotion and research.</p> <p>“It is very gratifying to receive this prestigious award, with its European and international outreach.”</p> <p>Awarded by the International Science Council, the University of Bergen and the ECPR, the prestigious recognizes prize recognizes a substantial and original contribution to comparative social science research.</p> <p><a href="https://ecpr.eu/Filestore/CustomContent/Prizes/stein-rokkan-2021-laudation-hon-ment.pdf">In their <em>laudatio</em></a>, the jury called the book “original, innovative and deeply comparative,” noting it brought together perspectives from political science, law, and sociology to show the economic and political importance of the city and how cities are diminished by the lack of constitutional authority to protect themselves.</p> <p>“Readers will not think about cities and constitutions the same way after reading this book,” the jury wrote. “The author points out the glaring absence of a place for cities on constitutional law thinking, despite their concentration of the world’s population at this point.</p> <h4><a href="https://www.law.utoronto.ca/news/professor-ran-hirschl-awarded-2021-stein-rokkan-prize">Read the Faculty of Law story</a></h4> <h4><a href="https://politics.utoronto.ca/2021/09/a-field-defining-book-by-professor-ran-hirschl-wins-the-2021-stein-rokkan-prize/">Read the department of political science&nbsp;story</a></h4> <h4><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq9Wk4aUArI">Watch the video</a></h4> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 07 Oct 2021 16:42:37 +0000 lanthierj 170401 at