Donatella della Porta Has Been Awarded the Dogan Prize in European Political Sociology

Donatella della Porta  has been awarded the Fondation Mattei Dogan  and European Consortium for European Research  (ECPR) Prize in European Political Sociology for 2011. The Prize Jury stated that her "work across a whole range of key sub-fields in the discipline (civil society, political violence, policing and public order, terrorism, and most prominently social movements) as well as professional engagement as the coordinator of several European research projects (on democratization, contentious politics and social activism) greatly impressed the jury and affirmed the high standards of this prestigious award". The previous two prize-holders have been Giovanni Sartori and Richard Rose.

The prize will be awarded during a special ceremony on Thursday, 25 August as part of the upcoming ECPR General Conference in Reykjavik .