Alfred Stepan Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government Director, Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion 420 W.118th Street, Room 815 IAB  New York, NY 10027 Phone: 212-854-5264 E-mail: as48@columbia.edu; al.stepan@sipa.columbia.edu

Courses

Professor Stepan teaches two graduate level courses each spring.

Stepan's teaching and research interests include comparative politics, theories of democratic transitions, federalism, and the world's religious systems, and democracy.

Democracy, the World's Religions, and Problems of the 'Twin Tolerations'" (U6295) (Spring 2009)

Issues in Comparative Democracies and Secularisms" (G8434) (Spring 2009)

Democracy, the World's Religions, and Problems of the ‘Twin Tolerations' (Spring 2007)

Democratic Voices in the World's Religions: Islam (Spring 2007)

Selected Problems in Democracy and Democratization: Theories, Institutions and Practices. Sciences-Po (Fall 2006)

• Sciences-Po Syllabus Democratization Fall 2006 (pdf)

• India and the Tamils (pdf)
• India: Great Diversity, Shared Political Community1 (pdf)
• India: Great Diversity, Shared Political Community2 (pdf)
• India: Great Diversity, Shared Political Community3 (pdf)

• Under-theorized Political Problems in the Founding Democratization Literature.pdf (pdf)

• Sri Lanka and the Tamils (pdf)

• Valenzuela: Latin American Presidencies Interrupted (pdf)

• Stepan - Tamil Case Study (pdf)

• Multi-Nationalism, Democracy and Asymmetrical Federalism (pdf)

• Linz and Stepan - Inequality Inducing and Inequality Reducing Federalism (pdf)

Selected Problems in Democracy and Democratization (Spring 2006)

• Syllabus Democratization 2006 (pdf)

• Linz, Stepan, Yadav - Nation State or State Nation (pdf)

• Stepan - Tamil Case Study (pdf)

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