Arend Lijphart

Arend d'Angremond Lijphart
Arend d'Angremond Lijphart
Born	17 August 1936; Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch; United States (dual)
Alma mater	Principia College, Yale University
Known for	Consociationalism, Consensus democracy
Awards	President of APSA (1995–1996); Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (1997); honorary doctorates from University of Leiden (2001), Queen's University Belfast (2004), Ghent University (2009); Honorary Fellow of Coventry University (2015);
	Scientific career
Fields	Political science
Institutions	University 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. He is influential for his work on consociational democracy and his contribution to the new Institutionalism in political science.

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