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Alfred Stepan was born on 22 July, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., is an American political scientist (1936–2017). Discover Alfred Stepan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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Occupation Professor, political science
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 22 July, 1936
Birthday 22 July
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Date of death 27 September, 2017
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Nationality United States

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1936

Alfred C. Stepan (July 22, 1936 – September 27, 2017) was an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics and Latin American politics.

He was the 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 is known for his comparative politics research on the military, state institutions, democratization, and democracy.

Stepan was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1936.

1958

He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. in 1958.

1964

The Military in Politics, Stepan analyzes the breakdown of democracy in Brazil in 1964.

Stepan "challenged the prevailing view in comparative research that saw the military as a force for achieving modernization and national integration."

He also showed that "understanding the military’s political behavior ... required a focus on the broader context of civil-military relations."

In this book, Stepan "critiqued both pluralist and Marxist approaches for focusing insufficient attention on state elites."

This work defined Stepan "as an early and key contributor to the ‘‘new institutional’’ research that emphasized the potential autonomy of political institutions from economic, societal, and cultural forces."

The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes is a four volume coedited work with Juan Linz.

It emphasizes "how the actions of democratically elected incumbents contributed to the demise of democracy."

In Rethinking Military Politics, Stepan "argued that to achieve stable democracy, civilian elites in newly democratic regimes had to find ways to handle the problem of establishing civilian control over the armed forces."

This work on democratization, with Juan Linz, provides a cross-regional comparison of thirteen countries in South America, Southern Europe, and postcommunist Europe.

It introducing a novel focus on ‘‘stateness’’ problems stemming from nationalist conflicts.

It also argues the type of old non-democratic regime affected subsequent trajectories of democratization.

1969

He gained his PhD from Columbia University in 1969 where his dissertation was supervised by Juan José Linz.

1983

He subsequently taught at Yale University, before being appointed Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia in 1983.

1991

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 was 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.

in 1991, Stepan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1993

He became the first Rector of Central European University (CEU) in 1993, and in 1996 was appointed Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College, Oxford University.

1999

He returned to Columbia University in 1999.

2001

He authored and edited a number of books, including Arguing Comparative Politics (Oxford University Press, 2001), ''Crafting State-Nations.

2002

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.

2007

In 2007, he was included on a list of the 400 most highly cited US-based political scientists.

2011

India and Other Multinational Democracies (co-authored with Juan Linz and Yogendra Yadav; 2011), Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post Communist Europe (with Juan Linz; 1996) and Democracies in Danger'' (2009).

2012

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".