Alfred C Stepan was an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics and Latin American politics.
12 Facts About Alfred Stepan
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Alfred Stepan was the Wallace S Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University, where he was director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion.
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Alfred Stepan is known for his comparative politics research on the military, state institutions, democratization, and democracy.
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Alfred Stepan gained his PhD from Columbia University in 1969 where his dissertation was supervised by Juan Jose Linz.
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Alfred Stepan 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 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.
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Alfred Stepan has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1991 and a member of the British Academy since 1997.
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Alfred Stepan is a member of the National Endowment for Democracy's International Forum for Democratic Studies Research Council.
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In 1991, Alfred Stepan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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In 2002, Alfred Stepan was awarded the Order of Rio Branco by the Brazilian government.
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Alfred Stepan has been awarded the Kalman Silvert Award for his lifetime contribution to Latin American studies.
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Alfred Stepan authored and edited a number of books, including Arguing Comparative Politics, Crafting State-Nations.