Biennal Prize
Pietro Grilli di Cortona
The biennial ‘Pietro Grilli di Cortona’ Prize is awarded to the best book published by at least one SISP member.
Nomination Procedure
The biennial ‘Pietro Grilli di Cortona’ Prize is awarded to the best book published by at least one SISP member. In order for the book to be eligible for the prize, all authors must have obtained their Ph.D. no more than 12 years before the date of publication of the volume. Works published in the year in which the prize is announced and in the previous year can compete. Books whose authors were not SISP members at the time of publication are excluded from participation. In the event that at least one of the authors has applied for SISP membership in the months preceding the publication of the work, and the application has not yet been ratified by the Assembly, the participation request is considered admissible.
Nomination procedure: You can compete for the award through nomination or self-nomination via MySisp, where you will need to upload an official digital copy (not drafts or proofs) of the book. The book must have been published during the year of the Prize or in the immediately preceding year. Moreover, all authors must provide a declaration certifying that they had obtained their Ph.D. no more than 12 years before the date of publication of the book.
Amount of the prize (total for each single book): €2,000.00
Pietro Grilli di Cortona
Born in Florence in 1954, Pietro Grilli of Cortona was a researcher of Political Science at La Sapienza University of Rome, and then an associate professor at the University of Trieste. Since 1995, he taught at Roma Tre University, where he held the position of full professor of Political Science since 2000. He also taught Comparative Politics and Democratization Processes, again at Roma Tre University, of which he was also a member of the Academic Senate from 2001 to 2008.
In September 2013, he was elected President of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP), succeeding Gianfranco Pasquino. He was a member of the Ministerial Study Committee on Institutional, Electoral and Constitutional Reforms (1994), the National Council for Economics and Labour, as an expert appointed by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (2000-2005), and the Italian National University Council (1997-2006). He passed away in 2015. Among his works: “Come gli Stati diventano democratici” (2009); “Il cambiamento politico in Italia. Dalla prima alla seconda Repubblica” (2007); “Stati, Nazioni e nazionalismi in Europa” (2003); “Tra vecchio e nuovo regime. Il peso del passato nella costruzione della democrazia”, with Orazio Lanza (2011).
