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.
In 1963 awarded Ph.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.
Lijphart is best known for his work on consociational or consensual politics, or the ways in which segmented societies manage to sustain democracy, 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, but in later works has preferred the term "consensual" to consociational.
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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.