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Alfred Stepan publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfred Stepan sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 125 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Alfred Stepan D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfred Stepan sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1974 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Alfred Stepan was primarily affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research focused on the social sciences, with particular attention to political science and international relations as well as sociology and political science.

The main topics of Alfred Stepan's scholarly work included:

  • Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
  • Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
  • Political Conflict and Governance

One of the notable recent papers attributed to Alfred Stepan is titled "Unequal Civilian Accommodation within Democratic Rule: The Case of Sri Lanka's Northern Province after the Government-LTTE Conflict", published in 2021 in Jurnal Politik. This publication is among the recorded outputs showcasing examination of political conflict and governance in Southeast Asia.

Frequent collaborators in Alfred Stepan's research included:

  • R R A H M A N
  • E V I D A K A R T I N I
  • Abstrak Tulisan
  • David Pion-Berlin
  • Harold A. Trinkunas

The primary publication venue associated with Stepan's work is Jurnal Politik.

Stepan's contributions to the field of political science were recognized with an award as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1974.

Best Publications

  • Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe

    Juan J. Linz;Alfred C. Stepan

  • The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes

    Juan J. Linz;Alfred C. Stepan;Arturo Valenzuela

  • Toward Consolidated Democracy

    Juan J. Linz;Alfred C. Stepan

  • Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation: Parliamentarianism versus Presidentialism

    Alfred Stepan;Cindy Skach

  • Rethinking Military Politics: Brazil and the Southern Cone

    Alfred C. Stepan

  • The State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective

    Alfred C. Stepan

  • Religion, Democracy, and the "Twin Tolerations"

    Alfred C. Stepan

  • Federalism and Democracy: Beyond the U.S. Model

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  • Arguing Comparative Politics

    Alfred C. Stepan

  • AN "ARAB" MORE THAN "MUSLIM" ELECTORAL GAP

    Alfred C. Stepan;Graeme B. Robertson

  • Federalism and Democracy: Beyond the U.S. Model

    Alfred C. Stepan

  • Crafting State-Nations: India and Other Multinational Democracies

    Alfred C. Stepan;Juan J. Linz;Yogendra Yadav

  • Democratization Theory and the "Arab Spring"

    Alfred Stepan;Juan J. Linz

  • Tunisia's Transition and the Twin Tolerations

    Alfred Stepan

  • Authoritarian Brazil: Origins, Policies, and Future

    Sylvia Hewlett;Alfred Stepan

  • Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe

    Francis Fukuyama;Juan J. Linz;Alfred Stepan

  • Democratizing Brazil : problems of transition and consolidation

    Alfred C. Stepan

  • Rethinking religion and world affairs

    Timothy Samuel Shah;Alfred C. Stepan;Monica Duffy Toft

  • The Military in Politics: Changing Patterns in Brazil

    Alfred C. Stepan

  • ARAB, NOT MUSLIM, EXCEPTIONALISM

    Alfred C. Stepan;Graeme B. Robertson

  • Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics

    Gerardo L. Munck;Richard Snyder;Gabriel Abraham Almond;Barrington Moore

  • The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes

    John C. Campbell;Juan J. Linz;Alfred Stepan

  • Authoritarian Brazil. Origins, Policies, and Future

    Willard Barber;Alfred Stepan;Charles Antoine

  • Arguing Comparative Politic

    Unknown

  • Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe

    Scott Mainwaring;Juan J. Linz;Alfred Stepan

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan J. Linz
Juan J. Linz Yale University
Abraham F. Lowenthal
Abraham F. Lowenthal University of Southern California
Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel P. Huntington Harvard University
Larry Diamond
Larry Diamond Stanford University
Theda Skocpol
Theda Skocpol Harvard University
Robert H. Bates
Robert H. Bates Harvard University
Douglas L. Kruse
Douglas L. Kruse Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Donald L. Horowitz
Donald L. Horowitz Duke University
James C. Scott
James C. Scott Yale University
David Collier
David Collier University of California, Berkeley

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