Arend Lijphart
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Arend Lijphart's Degrees
- Bachelors Political Science University of Amsterdam
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Arend d'Angremond Lijphart is a Dutch-American political scientist specializing in comparative politics, elections and voting systems, democratic institutionss, 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.
Arend Lijphart's Published Works
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Published Works
- Patterns of democracy : government forms and performance in thirty-six countries (2000) (4368)
- Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method (1971) (2648)
- Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration (1980) (2049)
- Democracies: Patterns of Majoritarian and Consensus Government in (1984) (1350)
- The Politics of Accommodation: Pluralism and Democracy in the Netherlands (1968) (1267)
- Unequal Participation: Democracy's Unresolved Dilemma (1996) (1265)
- Unequal Participation: Democracy's Unresolved Dilemma Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1996 (1997) (1051)
- Democracy in plural societies (1977) (996)
- II. The Comparable-Cases Strategy in Comparative Research (1975) (879)
- Patterns of Democracy (1999) (760)
- Constitutional Design for Divided Societies (2004) (640)
- Electoral Systems and Party Systems (1994) (508)
- Electoral Laws and Their Political Consequences (1986) (429)
- The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Consociational Interpretation (1996) (426)
- Corporatism and Consensus Democracy in Eighteen Countries: Conceptual and Empirical Linkages (1991) (389)
- Constitutional Choices for New Democracies (1995) (351)
- The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws, 1945–85 (1990) (330)
- Parliamentary versus presidential government (1992) (312)
- Thinking about Democracy: Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice (2007) (282)
- Religious vs. Linguistic vs. Class Voting: The “Crucial Experiment” of Comparing Belgium, Canada, South Africa, and Switzerland (1979) (247)
- Democratization and Constitutional Choices in Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary and Poland 1989-91 (1992) (229)
- Democracies: Forms, performance, and constitutional engineering (1994) (203)
- Power-sharing in South Africa (1985) (187)
- The Politics Of Accommodation (1968) (184)
- The Wave of Power‐Sharing Democracy (2002) (183)
- Choosing an Electoral System: Issues and Alternatives (1984) (175)
- Explaining Political and Economic Change in Post-Communist Eastern Europe (1995) (164)
- Trust beyond Borders: Immigration, the Welfare State, and Identity in Modern Societies (2007) (155)
- Consociation and Federation: Conceptual and Empirical Links (1979) (145)
- Institutional Design in New Democracies (1996) (135)
- The Analysis of Bloc Voting in the General Assembly: A Critique and a Proposal (1963) (122)
- The Structure of the Theoretical Revolution in International Relations (1974) (108)
- Review Article: the Northern Ireland Problem; Cases, Theories, and Solutions (1975) (102)
- Non-Majoritarian Democracy: A Comparison of Federal and Consociational Theories (1985) (96)
- THRESHOLDS AND PAYOFFS IN LIST SYSTEMS OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION (1977) (95)
- Democratic Political Systems (1989) (87)
- Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics (2007) (86)
- Conflict and coexistence in Belgium : the dynamics of a culturally divided society (1981) (84)
- The field of electoral systems research: A critical survey (1985) (82)
- Cultural Diversity and Theories of Political Integration (1971) (76)
- Measures of Cabinet Durability (1984) (68)
- Australian Democracy: Modifying Majoritarianism? (1999) (62)
- The alternative vote: a realistic alternative for South Africa? (1991) (57)
- The trauma of decolonization : the Dutch and West New Guinea (1966) (56)
- From the politics of accommodation to adversarial politics in the Netherlands: A reassessment (1989) (56)
- Consociational Theory: Problems and Prospects. A Reply (1981) (54)
- Self-determination versus pre-determination of ethnic minorities in power sharing systems (1991) (2007) (54)
- Debate—Proportional Representation: Double-Checking the Evidence (2008) (52)
- The Evolution of Electoral and Party Systems in the Nordic Countries (2002) (52)
- Liberalization and Leninist Legacies: Comparative Perspectives on Democratic Transitions (1997) (51)
- Negotiation democracy versus consensus democracy: Parallel conclusions and recommendations (2002) (48)
- A mediterranean model of democracy? The Southern European democracies in comparative perspective (1988) (46)
- The Southern European Examples of Democratization: Six Lessons for Latin America (1990) (44)
- Alphabetic bias in partisan elections: Patterns of voting for the Spanish Senate, 1982 and 1986 (1988) (41)
- South African democracy: Majoritarian or consociational? (1998) (39)
- Majority rule versus democracy in deeply divided societies (1977) (38)
- Consensus and Consensus Democracy Cultural, Structural, Functional, and Rational-Choice Explanations Lecture given by the Winner of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, Uppsala, October 4, 1997 (2007) (37)
- DEBATE: Measurement Validity and Institutional Engineering – Reflections on Rein Taagepera's Meta-Study (2003) (37)
- The demise of the last westminster system? Comments on the report of New Zealand's Royal Commission on the Electoral System (1987) (37)
- Linking and Integrating Corporatism and Consensus Democracy: Theory, Concepts and Evidence (1995) (35)
- Class voting and religious voting in the European democracies : a preliminary report (1971) (35)
- TOURIST TRAFFIC AND INTEGRATION POTENTIAL (1963) (29)
- A Note on the Meaning of Cabinet Durability (1984) (29)
- The Framework Document on Northern Ireland and the Theory of Power‐Sharing (1996) (28)
- Politics In Europe (1969) (27)
- The Importance of Consociationalism for Twenty‐First Century Politics and Political Science (2019) (26)
- Definitions, Evidence, and Policy (2000) (24)
- Advances in the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (1984) (23)
- The Problem of Low and Unequal Voter Turnout - and What We Can Do About It. IHS Political Science Series No. 54, February 1998 (1998) (23)
- The Consociational Theory and Beyond@@@Democracy in Plural Societies (1981) (23)
- The difficult science of electoral systems: A commentary on the critique by Alberto Penadés (1997) (22)
- The Relative Salience of the Socio‐Economic and Religious Issue Dimensions: Coalition Formations in Ten Western Democracies, 1919–1979 (1982) (20)
- Dimensions of democracies (1997) (19)
- Majority rule in theory and practice: the tenacity of a flawed paradigm (1991) (2007) (18)
- Presidentialism and majoritarian democracy: theoretical observations (1994) (2007) (18)
- Nomination Strategies in the Irish STV System: The Dail Elections of 1969, 1973 and 1977 (1979) (18)
- Bivariate and Multivariate Analyses (1994) (17)
- Democratic Quality in Stable Democracies (2010) (16)
- COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON FAIR REPRESENTATION: THE PLURALITY‐MAJORITY RULE, GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRICTING, AND ALTERNATIVE ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS (1981) (15)
- Trust beyond Borders (2008) (14)
- Democracy in the 21st century: can we be optimistic? (2001) (14)
- Domestic Terrorism and Democratic Regime Types (2013) (13)
- After Apartheid: The Solution for South Africa (1987) (13)
- A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective (2014) (12)
- Reforming the House: Three Moderately Radical Proposals (1998) (11)
- Party systems and issue dimensions: Israel and thirty‐five other old and new democracies compared (1999) (10)
- Democracy's victory and crisis: Back to democratic basics: who really practices majority rule? (1997) (10)
- Consociational Democracy as a Policy Recommendation: The Case of South Africa@@@Power-Sharing in South Africa (1987) (10)
- Power‐sharing versus Majority Rule: Patterns of Cabinet Formation in Twenty Democracies (1981) (10)
- POWER-SHARING AND GROUP AUTONOMY IN THE 1990S AND THE 21ST CENTURY (1999) (10)
- Proportional Tenure vs Proportional Representation: Introducing a New Debate (2006) (10)
- The Future of Democracy: Reasons for Pessimism, but Also Some Optimism (2000) (9)
- POWER-SHARING, ETHNIC AGNOSTICISM, AND POLITICAL PRAGMATISM (1993) (9)
- Democracy in the Twenty-First Century: Can We Be Optimistic? (2004) (8)
- Polarization and Democratization (2015) (8)
- Emergency Powers and Emergency Regimes: A Commentary (1978) (7)
- The Indonesian Image of West Irian (1961) (5)
- Steps in My Research and Thinking about Power Sharing and Democratic Institutions (2013) (5)
- Consociationalism After Half a Century (2018) (5)
- Regions in Upheaval: Ethnic Conflict and Political Mobilization (1987) (5)
- The Consociational Theory and Beyond (2016) (5)
- Politics in Europe;: Comparisons and interpretations (1969) (4)
- World politics : the writings of theorists and practitioners, classical and modern (1967) (4)
- The Politics of Transition in South Africa: Report on a Faculty Seminar (1993) (4)
- On S. E. Finer’s Electoral Theory (1994) (4)
- Toward Empirical Democratic Theory: Research Strategies and Tactics@@@Agreement and the Stability of Democracy@@@Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition@@@The Attentive Public: Polyarchical Democracy@@@The Democratic Experience: Past and Prospects@@@The Analysis of Political Cleavages (1972) (3)
- reflections on the first twenty–five years of The European Journal of Political Research (1997) (3)
- Reflections on the first twenty-five years of the "European Journal of Political Research" (1997) (3)
- The Pattern of Electoral Rules in the United States: a Deviant Case among the Industralized Democracies (1985) (2)
- Book Review:Division and Cohesion in Democracy: A Study of Norway Harry Eckstein (1969) (2)
- The puzzle of Indian democracy : a reinterpretation (1994) (2)
- Deliberation and Consociation: Joint Pathways to Peace in Divided Societies (2019) (1)
- Profile: South African Democracy: Majoritarian or Consociational? (1998) (1)
- Electoral Systems: Types, Patterns, Trends (1994) (1)
- Institutional Design and Democratization (2018) (1)
- Introduction: Goals and Methods (1994) (1)
- First‐past‐the‐post, PR, Michael Pinto‐Duschinksy, and the empirical evidence (1999) (1)
- Reply to Lane and Ersson, French Politics: The Virtues of Majoritarian Democracy (2003) (1)
- Book Reviews (1994) (1)
- THE REVIEW OF POLITICS (2009) (0)
- APSA Contributors (2018) (0)
- Elections Without Choice. Edited by Guy Hermet, Richard Rose, and Alain Rouquié. (New York: Wiley, 1978. Pp. xi + 250. $14.95.) (1979) (0)
- Democraticy In Plural Societies (1989) (0)
- Electoral Engineering: Limits and Possibilities (1994) (0)
- JPS volume 6 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (1976) (0)
- Editor's Introduction (1975) (0)
- What Is Proportionality Anyhow (2016) (0)
- Disproportionality, Multipartism, and Majority Victories (1994) (0)
- Association News (1952) (0)
- The Design of Markets and Democracies: Generalizing Across Regions (2018) (0)
- 7. Legislative Power (2020) (0)
- POWER-SHARING , ETHNIC AGNOSTICISM , AND POLITICAL PRAGMATISM Arend Lijphart (0)
- Changes in Election Rules between Systems in the Same Country (1994) (0)
- A Different Democracy (2020) (0)
- Fragmentaciones lingüísticas, sociales y políticas: Bélgica, Canadá y Suiza (1976) (0)
- Referees Acta Politica 2011 (2012) (0)
- Books received (1993) (0)
- Constitutional Change in South Africa. Edited by Benyon John A.. (Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1978. Pp. xxiv + 297. $15.00.) (1979) (0)
- Book Reviews : In Search of Political Stability: A Comparative Study of New Brunswick and Northern Ireland. By EDMUND A. AUNGER. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1981. Pp. xiv, 224. $21.95.) (1982) (0)
- Four Other Potential Explanations (1994) (0)
- Two into One (2019) (0)
- George H. Hallett, Jr. (1986) (0)
- Linguistic Fragmentation and Other Dimensions of Cleavage: A Comparison of Belgium, Canada and Switzerland (1975) (0)
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