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Arend Lijphart
Dutch-American political scientist (born 1936)
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.[1] He is influential for his work on consociational democracy and his contribution to the new Institutionalism in political science.[2]
Biography
Lijphart was born in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in 1936.[3] During his youth, he experienced World War II and he attributed his aversion "to violence" and interest "in questions of both peace and democracy" to this experience.[4]
He has a B.A.
from Principia College in 1958 and a PhD in political science from Yale University in 1963.[3] Lijphart taught at Elmira College (1961–63), the University of California, Berkeley