Alfred Stepan

Alfred C. Stepan is a comparative political scientist and Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University, where he is also director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion.

Stepan gained his PhD from Columbia 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 in 1999.cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~as48/|title=Alfred C. Stepan|publisher=Columbia University|accessdate=2008-05-17] He has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1991 and a member of the British Academy since 1997.

He has authored and edited a large number of books, including "Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post Communist Europe", (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) co-authored with Juan Linz.

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* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/polisci/fac-bios/stepan/faculty.html Biography at Columbia University]
* [http://www.project-syndicate.org/contributor/663 Profile at Project Syndicate]