Alfred Stepan

14.1k citations
82 papers · 6.4k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 33

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Papers in

Alfred Stepan

77 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

Toward Consolidated Democracies 1996 · 446 citations
446198820262000201350010001.5k

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Alfred Stepan
Comparison fields: 5 of 91
  • Political Science and International Relations 4.4k
  • Development 497
  • Sociology and Political Science 4.3k
  • Law 416
  • Public Administration 121
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20182
2 20169
3
The Multiple Secularisms of Modern Democratic and Non-Democratic Regimes
201052
4 200810
5 200186
6 19981
7
Defining and crafting democratic transition, constitutions and consolidation
19981
8
Stateness, Nationalism and Democratization
19974
9 199721
10
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation. Southern Europe, South America and Post-Communist Europe
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19961740
11
Presidentialism and parliamentarism in comparative perspective
199429
12
Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation: Parliamentarianism versus Presidentialism
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1993345
13 19936
14
Identidades políticas y secuencias electorales: España, la Unión Soviética y Yugoslavia
19920
15
Democratizando o Brasil
198856
16
Rethinking Military Politics: Brazil and the Southern Cone
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1988287
17 1980363
18
The breakdown of democratic regimes : Europe
197866
19
Latin American institutional development : changing military perspectives in Peru and Brazil
197112
20
The military in politics
197131

About Alfred Stepan

Alfred Stepan is a scholar working on Industrial relations, Political Science and International Relations, Law, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics, having authored 82 papers that have together received 6.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Defense, Military, and Policy Studies (9 papers), Political Conflict and Governance (8 papers), Military History and Strategy (6 papers), Religion and Society Interactions (5 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (5 papers), Religion, Society, and Development (5 papers), International Relations in Latin America (5 papers) and Political Systems and Governance (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Political Science and International Relations (4.4k citations), Development (497 citations), Sociology and Political Science (4.3k citations), Law (416 citations) and Public Administration (121 citations). Alfred Stepan has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Frequent co-authors include Juan J. Linz, Xavier Coller, Cindy Skach, Eduardo A. Gamarra, Gary W. Wynia, Graeme B. Robertson, David P. Werlich, Francis Fukuyama, Charles D. Ameringer and Thomas C. Bruneau. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of democracy, Hispanic American Historical Review, Foreign Affairs, Comparative Politics and Post-Soviet Affairs.

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