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Seymour Martin Lipset

Seymour Martin Lipset

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Political Science
USA
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
80
Citations
66662
World Ranking
26
National Ranking
15

Seymour Martin Lipset 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 Seymour Martin Lipset sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 409 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Seymour Martin Lipset 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 Seymour Martin Lipset sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 76 scientists 21 D-Index: 79 scientists 22 D-Index: 84 scientists 23 D-Index: 68 scientists 24 D-Index: 88 scientists 25 D-Index: 82 scientists 26 D-Index: 76 scientists 27 D-Index: 75 scientists 28 D-Index: 99 scientists 29 D-Index: 96 scientists 30 D-Index: 96 scientists 31 D-Index: 81 scientists 32 D-Index: 86 scientists 33 D-Index: 81 scientists 34 D-Index: 84 scientists 35 D-Index: 72 scientists 36 D-Index: 58 scientists 37 D-Index: 53 scientists 38 D-Index: 48 scientists 39 D-Index: 40 scientists 40 D-Index: 40 scientists 41 D-Index: 32 scientists 42 D-Index: 26 scientists 43 D-Index: 25 scientists 44 D-Index: 33 scientists 45 D-Index: 33 scientists 46 D-Index: 17 scientists 47 D-Index: 21 scientists 48 D-Index: 22 scientists 49 D-Index: 18 scientists 50 D-Index: 19 scientists 51 D-Index: 19 scientists 52 D-Index: 15 scientists 53 D-Index: 14 scientists 54 D-Index: 10 scientists 55 D-Index: 13 scientists 56 D-Index: 9 scientists 57 D-Index: 11 scientists 58 D-Index: 12 scientists 59 D-Index: 10 scientists 60 D-Index: 5 scientists 61 D-Index: 7 scientists 62+ D-Index: 100 scientists
20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% 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

  • 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

  • Party Systems and Voter Alignments

    Seymour Martin Lipset;Stein Rokkan

  • Party systems and voter alignments : cross-national perspectives

    Seymour Martin Lipset;Stein Rokkan

  • American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword

    Seymour Martin Lipset

  • Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics

    Seymour Martin Lipset

  • Class, citizenship, and social development

    T. H. Marshall;Seymour Martin Lipset

  • Social mobility in industrial society

    Seymour Martin Lipset;Reinhard Bendix

  • Union Democracy: The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union

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

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

    Seymour Martin Lipset

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

    Seymour Martin Lipset

  • Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America

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

  • Democracy in Developing Countries

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

  • The First New Nation

    Seymour Martin Lipset

  • The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited: 1993 Presidential Address

    Seymour Martin Lipset

  • The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited

    Seymour Martin Lipset

  • ARE SOCIAL CLASSES DYING

    Terry Nichols Clark;Seymour Martin Lipset

  • Politics in Developing Countries

    Larry Diamond;Juan Linz;Seymour Martin Lipset

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

    Barry Cooper;Seymour Martin Lipset

  • Democracy and Working-Class Authoritarianism

    Seymour Martin Lipset

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

    Seymour Martin Lipset;Earl Raab

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

    Gregory M. Luebbert;David Collier;Seymour Martin Lipset

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

    Robert Y. Shapiro;Seymour Martin Lipset;William Schneider

  • The confidence gap

    John E. Tropman;Seymour Martin Lipset;William Schnider

  • American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword

    Tiziano Bonazzi;Seymour Martin Lipset

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

    Seymour Martin Lipset;Stein Rokkan

  • Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives

    Richard Rose;Seymour M. Lipset;Stein Rokkan

  • Social Mobility in Industrial Society.

    William Delany;Seymour Martin Lipset;Reinhard Bendix

  • Union Democracy: The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union

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

  • Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics

    Ross A. Gomez;Seymour Martin Lipset

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan J. Linz
Juan J. Linz Yale University
Larry Diamond
Larry Diamond Stanford University
Stein Rokkan
Stein Rokkan University of Bergen
Neil J. Smelser
Neil J. Smelser University of California, Berkeley
James S. Coleman
James S. Coleman University of Chicago
Neil Nevitte
Neil Nevitte University of Toronto
Philip G. Altbach
Philip G. Altbach Boston College
Richard Rose
Richard Rose University of Strathclyde
John H. Goldthorpe
John H. Goldthorpe University of Oxford
Gary Marks
Gary Marks University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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