Alfred Stepan, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlfred Stepan
American political scientist
Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1936
Date of Death: 27-Sep-2017
Profession: political scientist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Alfred Stepan
- Alfred C.
- Stepan (July 22, 1936 – September 27, 2017) was a comparative political scientist and Wallace S.
- Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University, where he was also director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion.
- He died on 27 September 2017 at the age of 81.
- [1] Stepan was graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.A.
- in 1958.
- He gained his PhD 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.
- 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 been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1991 and a member of the British Academy since 1997.
- 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.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).In 2002, Stepan was awarded the Order of Rio Branco by the Brazilian government.
- 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 US-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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