Arend Lijphart
Arend d'Angremond Lijphart is a Dutch American political scientist and Research Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.
His scholarly work specializes in comparative politics, elections and voting systems, democratic institutions, and ethnicity and politics.
He is particularly influential for developing theories of consociational democracy and contributing to new institutionalism in political science.
His methodological approach drew on ideas from sociologist Neil Smelser, and his work served as a foundation for David Collier's research on comparative methods.
Lijphart has helped establish the quality of democracy subfield within comparative politics.
