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national medal of science
american academy of arts and sciences
presidential medal of freedom
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Seymour Martin Lipset
Seymour Martin Lipset
senior fellow

Expertise: Political sociology, trade union organization, social stratification, public opinion, sociology of intellectual life, conditions for democracy in comparative perspective

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Seymour Martin Lipset was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University until 2006. He passed away on Dec. 31, 2006. Previously he was the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford University (1975–90) and the George D. Markham Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University.