Priser och utmärkelser

• Prize from the Royal Society for Science in Uppsala for Interdisciplinary Research (2004).
• Prize from the Swedish Association of University Teachers for the Promotion of Academic Freedom (2003).
• Prize for best paper in Comparative Politics presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (2003, together with Dietlind Stolle).
• The Stein Rokkan Lecture (key-note speech) at the Annual Meeting of the European Consortium for Political Research, Uppsala 2003.
• The Shapiro Lecture (key-note speech) at the Annual Meeting of the UK Political Science Association, Leeds 2004.
• Named second most important Swedish Political Scientist ever by the Swedish Association for Political Science in 2006 (# 1 was Herbert Tingsten 1896-1973, # 3 was Jörgen Westerståhl 1916-2006).
• Awarded by the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation as Wallenberg Scholars in 2009. The foundation asked all Swedish universities to nominate their “leading scholars” (all together, Swedish universities nominated 60 scholars). In May 2009, based on recommendations from an international group of distinguished scholars, the Foundation decided to give out ten awards with me as the only social scientist. The award is Euro1.5 mil. over five years to support my research.