Alfred C. Stepan (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1969) taught at Yale University for thirteen years (1969-82), later was Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University (1983–1991), the first Rector of Central European University (1993-1996), the Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College, Oxford University (1996-1999), and is now the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at SIPA and Political Science.
Alfred Stepan’s publications include: Alfred Stepan, Juan Linz, and Yogendra Yadav, Democracies in Multinational Societies: India and Other Polities (Johns Hopkins: 2007); Stepan, Arguing Comparative Politics (Oxford: 2001); Linz and Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post Communist Europe (Johns Hopkins: 1996); and Linz and Stepan, eds., The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes (Johns Hopkins: 1978). His recent publications relating to religion and politics include “The World’s Religious Systems and Democracy: Crafting the “Twin Tolerations”, in his Arguing Comparative Politics (his major writing project in the next few years is to expand this article into a book), “An ‘Arab’ More Than ‘Muslim’ Electoral Gap” Journal of Democracy (July 2003) and a Forum debating this in JoD (October 2004). Working with Yogendra Yadav and Juan Linz, Stepan helped prepare the questions on religion and politics for the 50,000 person survey of the five countries of South Asia in 2005-6 and Stepan and Linz cooperate with Amaney Jamal, the PI, in the design of a Pew-sponsored Arab Barometer study.
Alfred Stepan is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991- present, and a member of the British Academy, 1997-present.