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61
Citations
42788
World Ranking
102
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61

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 1997 - Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science For his theoretically and empirically pathbreaking research on the function of consensus in democratic politics in divided as well as in homogeneous societies.
  • 1993 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1991 - Dr Hendrik Muller Prize, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1983 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Arend Lijphart is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a specific focus on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, and Law.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies
  • Political Theory and Democracy
  • Human Rights and Immigration
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Political Systems and Governance

Lijphart has contributed publications to several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include Yale University Press eBooks and Revista Chilena de Derecho y Ciencia Política.

Recent papers authored by Lijphart include:

  • Los peligros del presidencialismo: Análisis y nuevas reflexiones de Juan Linz (2023), Revista Chilena de Derecho y Ciencia Política

Co-authorship is a part of Lijphart's scholarly activity, with frequent collaborators being Steven Taylor and Matthew Søberg Shugart.

In terms of book publications, Lijphart has released work through Yale University Press, notably "A Different Democracy" published in 2020.

Several distinctions have been awarded to Lijphart throughout their academic career, such as:

  • Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (1997) - for research on the function of consensus in democratic politics in both divided and homogeneous societies
  • Membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993)
  • Dr Hendrik Muller Prize, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1989)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1983)

Best Publications

  • Patterns of democracy : government forms and performance in thirty-six countries

    Arend Lijphart

  • Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method

    Arend Lijphart

  • Democracy in plural societies : a comparative exploration

    Arend Lijphart

  • Democracies: Patterns of Majoritarian and Consensus Government in Twenty-One Countries

    Arend Lijphart

  • Patterns of Democracy

    Arend Lijphart

  • The politics of accommodation: Pluralism and democracy in the Netherlands

    Arend Lijphart

  • Unequal Participation: Democracy's Unresolved Dilemma Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1996

    Arend Lijphart

  • Electoral systems and party systems : a study of twenty-seven democracies, 1945-1990

    Arend Lijphart;Don Aitkin

  • Unequal Participation: Democracy's Unresolved Dilemma

    Arend Lijphart

  • Democracy in plural societies

    Arend Lijphart

  • II. The Comparable-Cases Strategy in Comparative Research:

    Arend Lijphart

  • Constitutional Design for Divided Societies

    Arend Lijphart

  • Electoral Systems and Party Systems

    Arend Lijphart

  • Corporatism and Consensus Democracy in Eighteen Countries: Conceptual and Empirical Linkages

    Arend Lijphart;Markus M. L. Crepaz

  • The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Consociational Interpretation

    Arend Lijphart

  • The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws, 1945-85

    Arend Lijphart

  • Parliamentary versus presidential government

    Arend Lijphart

  • Constitutional Choices for New Democracies

    Arend Lijphart

  • The politics of accommodation

    Arend Lijphart

  • Power-sharing in South Africa

    Arend Lijphart

  • Thinking about Democracy: Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice

    Arend Lijphart

  • Trust beyond Borders: Immigration, the Welfare State, and Identity in Modern Societies

    Markus M. L. Crepaz;Arend Lijphart

  • Religious vs. Linguistic vs. Class Voting: The “Crucial Experiment” of Comparing Belgium, Canada, South Africa, and Switzerland

    Arend Lijphart

  • Democratization and Constitutional Choices in Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary and Poland 1989-91:

    Arend Lijphart

  • Democracies: Forms, performance, and constitutional engineering

    Arend Lijphart

  • The Wave of Power‐Sharing Democracy

    Arend Lijphart

  • Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration

    Elijah Ben-Zion Kaminsky;Arend Lijphart

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Grofman
Bernard Grofman University of California, Irvine
Matthew Soberg Shugart
Matthew Soberg Shugart University of California, Davis
Juan J. Linz
Juan J. Linz Yale University
Robert A. Dahl
Robert A. Dahl Yale University
Theda Skocpol
Theda Skocpol Harvard University
Robert H. Bates
Robert H. Bates Harvard University
Richard Gunther
Richard Gunther The Ohio State University
James C. Scott
James C. Scott Yale University
David Collier
David Collier University of California, Berkeley
Peter J. Taylor
Peter J. Taylor Northumbria University

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