Arend d'Angremond Lijphart | |
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Born | Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 17 August 1936
Nationality | Dutch United States (dual) |
Alma mater | Principia College, Yale University |
Known for | Consociationalism, Consensus democracy |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Political science |
Institutions | University of California, San Diego |
Arend d'Angremond Lijphart (born 17 August 1936) is a Dutch-American political scientist specializing in comparative politics, elections and voting systems, democratic institutions, and ethnicity and politics. He is Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.[1] He is influential for his work on consociational democracy and his contribution to the new Institutionalism in political science.[2]