Arend Lijphart

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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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