Arend D'Engremont Lijphart (b. 17 August 1936, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands) is a political scientist specializing in comparative politics, democratic institutions, and ethnicity and politics. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Dutch by birth, he has spent most of his working life in the United States and is an American citizen. He has since regained his Dutch citizenship and is now a dual citizen of both the Netherlands and the United States. August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Apeldoorn ( ▶ (help· info)) is a municipality and a town in in the province of Gelderland, about 26,5 miles east of Amersfoort, in central Netherlands. ... See also: Political Science Notable political scientists Kenneth Arrow - Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who published influential paper on his widely cited Arrows Impossibility Theorem Robert Axelrod Duncan Black - Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson Jean-Charles de Borda - 18th century mathematician... Comparative politics is a huge subfield of political science that studies the various forms of government found throughout the world. ... This article or section should be merged with ethnic group Ethnicity is the cultural characteristics that connect a particular group or groups of people to each other. ... Politics is a process by which collective decisions are made within groups. ... A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Political science is a social science discipline that deals with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. ... The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD) is a public, coeducational university located in La Jolla, California. ...

In 1963 he was awarded thePh.D. at Yale University. In 1989, he was elected to the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and from 1995-1996 served as President of the American Political Science Association. He was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in 1997. 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. ... Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. ... The American Political Science Association, founded in 1903, serves more than 15,000 members in more than 80 countries, bringing a variety of services to political scientists both inside and outside academic institutions. ... The Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (in Swedish Skytteanska priset) was established in 1995 by the Johan Skytte Foundation at Uppsala University. ...

Lijphart is best known for his work on consociationalism, or the ways in which segmented societies manage to sustain democracy through power-sharing, which was based on his first major work, The Politics of Accommodation, a study of the Dutch political system. He expanded on the concept of consociationalism in Democracy in Plural Societies. In later work he has focused on the broader study of consensual and majoritarian elements in political systems. Consociationalism is the method of conflict resolution built on the idea that a democracy fractured by opposing political parties can stabilize itself by appointing a small group of intellectuals to govern the people. ...

Publications

• The Trauma of Decolonization: The Dutch & West New Guinea. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966.
• The Politics of Accommodation. Pluralism and Democracy in the Netherlands, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
• Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. ISBN 0300020494.
• Democracies: Patterns of Majoritarian & Consensus Government in Twenty-one Countries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. ISBN 0300031823.
• Power-Sharing in South Africa. Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1985. ISBN 0877255245.
• Grofman, Bernard, and Lijphart, Arend (eds.). Electoral Laws & Their Political Consequences. New York: Agathon Press, 1986. ISBN 0875860745.
• Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0198280548.
• Lijphart, Arend, and Waisman, Carlos H. (eds.). Institutional Design in New Democracies. Boulder: Westview, 1996. ISBN 0813321093.
• Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms & Performance in Thirty-six Countries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. ISBN 0300078935
• Grofman, Bernard and Lijphart, Arend (eds.). The Evolution of Electoral & Party Systems in the Nordic Countries. New York: Agathon Press. ISBN 0875861385.

External links

• Professor Emeritus Arend Lijphart page at University of California