Seymour Martin Lipset

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Seymour Martin Lipset was a prominent American sociologist and political scientist known for his influential work on democracy, political behavior, and the social conditions underpinning stable democratic systems.

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instanceOf human
political scientist
sociologist
academicDegree Bachelor of Science
Doctor of Philosophy
almaMater City College of New York
Columbia University
awardReceived Lasker Award for the best book in political science
MacIver Award of the American Political Science Association
citizenship United States of America
coAuthorWith Gary Marks
James S. Coleman
Martin Trow
Stein Rokkan
countryOfBirth United States of America
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1922-03-18
dateOfDeath 2006-12-31
electedPosition president of the American Political Science Association
president of the American Sociological Association
employer Columbia University
George Mason University
Harvard University
Hoover Institution
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
familyName Lipset
fieldOfWork comparative politics
political science
political sociology
sociology
fullName Seymour Martin Lipset
gender male
givenName Seymour
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
notableFor analysis of social conditions of stable democracy
studies of political behavior
theory of democracy and economic development
trade union democracy research
work on American exceptionalism
notableWork American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword
Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics
Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy
The First New Nation
The Politics of Unreason
Union Democracy
placeOfBirth New York City
placeOfDeath Arlington, Virginia
positionHeld professor of government
professor of sociology
senior fellow at Hoover Institution
researchInterest class voting
democratization
party systems
social stratification

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