Alfred Stepan

阿尔弗雷德•斯提潘

Alfred Stepan is Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion and Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University. His current work focuses on religion and politics, and he is expanding his 2001 article “The World’s Religious Systems and Democracy: Crafting the 'Twin Tolerations'” into a book. Stepan also works on the Pew-sponsored Arab Barometer. His other major publications include Crafting State Nations: India and Other Multinational Democracies (Spring 2011) with Juan Linz and Yogendra Yadav, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation (1996) with Juan Linz, and Arguing Comparative Politics (2001). He taught at Yale University for thirteen years, was the first Rector of Central European University, the Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College, Oxford University, and Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.