The purpose of the Karl Deutsch Award is to honour a prominent scholar engaged in the cross-disciplinary research of which Karl Deutsch was a
master. The recipient presents the Karl Deutsch lecture or leads a special session at the world congress. The award is made on the
recommendation of the committee on awards. It is supported by the Karl Deutsch fund.

Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1912-1992)

Born in Prague, Karl Deutsch immigrated to the US in the late '30s. He taught at the MIT, Yale, and Harvard. He assumed the role of President
of IPSA from 1976-79. He was also President of the American Political Science Association and director of the International Institute of
Comparative Social Research at the Science Center in Berlin. He died in November 1992.

Karl Deutsch Award Recipients

2009 Prof. Giovanni Sartori
Giovanni Sartori is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, New York. Professor Sartori has made lasting contributions
to the fields of democratic theory, party systems, and constitutional engineering. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he
has been awarded of several prizes, including the Outstanding Book Award of the American Political Science Association. His most recent
publications include La democrazia in trenta lezioni, edited by Lorenza Foschini (Mondadori 2008), Mala costituzione e altri malanni (Laterza
2006), Semantics, Concepts and Comparative Method  edited by S. Sepheriades, (Papazisis, Greek edition 2005) and  Mala tempora (Laterza, fifth
reprint 2004).He served as Dean of the Department of Political Science of the University of Florence from 1969 to 1972, then as Albert Schweitzer
Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University from 1979 to 1994, and was later appointed Professor Emeritus. He also has taught at Stanford,
Yale, and Harvard University.

2006 Dr. Charles Tilly 
Charles Tilly's work focuses on large-scale social change and its relationship to contentious politics, especially in Europe since 1500. His most recently published books are Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States (co-edited with Michael Hanagan, Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), How Social Movements Matter (co-edited with Marco Giugni & Doug McAdam, University of Minnesota Press, 1999), Dynamics of Contention (co-authored with Doug McAdam & Sidney Tarrow, Cambridge University Press, 2001), and Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics (co-authored with Ronald Aminzade et al., Cambridge University Press, 2001). He has recently completed Stories, Identities, and Political Change (Rowman & Littlefield 2002), The Politics of Collective Violence (Cambridge University Press, scheduled for 2003), and Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000 (under review at Cambridge University Press). He is currently co-authoring Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History (Wadsworth). He is also helping run the Russian Academy of Sciences - National Academy of Sciences collaborative project on conflict in multi-ethnic societies.