Education
Stepan gained his Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University in 1969 and subsequently taught at Yale University, before being appointed Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia in 1983.
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Alfred Stepan
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He became the first Rector of Central European University in 1993, and in 1996 was appointed Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College, Oxford University. He returned to Columbia University in 1999. He has authored and edited a number of books, including Arguing Comparative Politics (Oxford University Press, 2001), Democracy in Multinational Societies: India and Other Polities (co-authored with Juan Linz and Yogendra Yadav.
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post Communist Europe, (with Juan Linz.
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) and Democracies in Danger (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). He has also been awarded the Kalman Silvert Award for his lifetime contribution to Latin American studies.
In 2007, he was included on a list of the 400 most highly cited United States-based political scientists. In 2012, he was awarded the Karl Deutsch Award by the International Political Science Association.
The award is intended "to honour a prominent scholar engaged in the cross-disciplinary research of which Karl Deutsch was a master".
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According to the editors of a collection of essays published in honour of Stepan, he is one of the few academics to be a member of both national social science academies. Stepan is a member of the National Endowment for Democracy"s International Forum for Democratic Studies Research Council.
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