Arend Lijphart

Arend d'Angremond Lijphart
Born (1936-08-17) 17 August 1936 (age 88)
Apeldoorn, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
United States (dual)
Alma materPrincipia College, Yale University
Known forConsociationalism, Consensus democracy
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical science
InstitutionsUniversity 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]

  1. ^ CV 2014 polisci.ucsd.edu
  2. ^ Munck, Gerardo L. and Richard Snyder (2007). "Arend Lijphart: political institutions, divided societies, and consociational democracy," pp. 234–272, in Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder, Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Bernard Grofman, "Arend Lijphart and the New Institutionalism", pp. 43–73, in Markus Crepaz, Thomas Koelble, and David Wilsford (eds.), Democracy and Institutions: The Life Work of Arend Lijphart. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.