2026 Seymour Martin Lipset: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	80	26	15	409	66662

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences
2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
2000 - W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association
1997 - Helen Dinerman Prize, World Association of Public Opinion Research
1976 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1973 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1971 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Seymour Martin Lipset was affiliated with George Mason University in the United States. Their research spanned the social sciences, with particular focus on sociology, political science, and urban studies. Their scholarly work contributed to the understanding of governance, social sciences, Canadian identity, and history.

The scientist's book publications included at least one notable title published by the Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology: Agrarian Socialism: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology, released in 2021. This work received citations relevant to its topic area.

Key fields of study encompassed:

Social Sciences

Subfields of research included:

Sociology and Political Science
Urban Studies

The main topics explored in their published work were:

Canadian Identity and History
Social Sciences and Governance

Awards received throughout the career of Seymour Martin Lipset reflected recognition by multiple scholarly organizations:

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2003) - Academy of Social Sciences
W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association (2000)
Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2000)
Helen Dinerman Prize, World Association of Public Opinion Research (1997)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1976)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1973)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1971)

Best Publications

Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy

Seymour Martin Lipset

11512
Citations
Party Systems and Voter Alignments

Seymour Martin Lipset;Stein Rokkan

8139
Citations
Party systems and voter alignments : cross-national perspectives

Seymour Martin Lipset;Stein Rokkan

5397
Citations
American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword

Seymour Martin Lipset

3593
Citations
Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics

Seymour Martin Lipset

3291
Citations
Class, citizenship, and social development

T. H. Marshall;Seymour Martin Lipset

2181
Citations
Social mobility in industrial society

Seymour Martin Lipset;Reinhard Bendix

2163
Citations
Union Democracy: The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union

Seymour Martin Lipset;Martin A. Trow;James Samuel Coleman

2066
Citations
The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective

Seymour Martin Lipset

1808
Citations
Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada

Seymour Martin Lipset

1575
Citations
Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America

Abraham F. Lowenthal;Larry Diamond;Juan J. Linz;Seymour Martin Lipset

1573
Citations
Democracy in Developing Countries

Larry Jay Diamond;Juan J. Linz;Seymour Martin Lipset

1569
Citations
The First New Nation

Seymour Martin Lipset

1005
Citations
The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited: 1993 Presidential Address

Seymour Martin Lipset

875
Citations
The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited

Seymour Martin Lipset

858
Citations
ARE SOCIAL CLASSES DYING

Terry Nichols Clark;Seymour Martin Lipset

769
Citations
Politics in Developing Countries

Larry Diamond;Juan Linz;Seymour Martin Lipset

743
Citations
Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada

Barry Cooper;Seymour Martin Lipset

653
Citations
Democracy and Working-Class Authoritarianism

Seymour Martin Lipset

636
Citations
The Politics of Unreason: Right Wing Extremism in America, 1790 1977

Seymour Martin Lipset;Earl Raab

621
Citations
Liberalism, Fascism, or Social Democracy: Social Classes and the Political Origins of Regimes in Interwar Europe

Gregory M. Luebbert;David Collier;Seymour Martin Lipset

534
Citations
The Confidence Gap: Business, Labor, and Government in the Public Mind.

Robert Y. Shapiro;Seymour Martin Lipset;William Schneider

426
Citations
The confidence gap

John E. Tropman;Seymour Martin Lipset;William Schnider

351
Citations
American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword

Tiziano Bonazzi;Seymour Martin Lipset

164
Citations
Party systems and voter alignments : cross-national perspectives : [Contributors: Robert R. Alford and others]

Seymour Martin Lipset;Stein Rokkan

73
Citations
Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives

Richard Rose;Seymour M. Lipset;Stein Rokkan

5
Citations
Social Mobility in Industrial Society.

William Delany;Seymour Martin Lipset;Reinhard Bendix

3
Citations
Union Democracy: The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union

Clyde W. Summers;Seymour Martin Lipset;Martin Trow;James Coleman

2
Citations
Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics

Ross A. Gomez;Seymour Martin Lipset

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan J. Linz Yale University

Larry Diamond Stanford University

Stein Rokkan University of Bergen

Neil J. Smelser University of California, Berkeley

James S. Coleman University of Chicago

Neil Nevitte University of Toronto

Philip G. Altbach Boston College

Richard Rose University of Strathclyde

John H. Goldthorpe University of Oxford

Gary Marks University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

External Links

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