Arend Lijphart

Arend Lijphart ( born August 17, 1936 in Apeldoorn, Netherlands) is one of the best known and most influential political scientists of our time. He possesses both the Dutch and the American citizen. 1963 doctorate in Lijphart Yale and taught and researched recently at the University of California, San Diego. There he became Professor Emeritus in 2001.

Lijphart's research field is comparative politics. He became known in the German-speaking world, especially through his studies "Democracies " and "Patterns of Democracy ," in which he between two prototypical forms of democracy, namely the consensus democracy and competitive democracy is different.

Writings (selection )

• Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration ( 1977)
• Democracies: Patterns of majoritarian and consensus government in Twenty-One Countries (1984 )
• Power - Sharing in South Africa ( 1985)
• Electoral Laws and Their Political Consequences (1986 )
• Parliamentary versus Presidential Government ( 1992)
• Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty -Seven Democracies (1994 )
• Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty- Six Countries (1999)
• Thinking about Democracy: Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice (2007)

Honors

Lijphart 1989 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1995 to 1996, he was also the president of the American Political Science Association. In 1997, Lijphart the prestigious Johan Skytte Prize for Political Science. In 2001 Lijphart an honorary doctorate from the university was " for his outstanding scientific achievements ," awarded suffering.