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Alfred Diamant was an American political scientist. His main contribution was in the field of comparative politics and comparative public administration. He was a member of the Comparative Administration Group and a co-chairperson of the Council for European Studies based at Columbia University. According to Peter Alexis Gourevitch, Diamant was both “on the Executive Committee of the Council for European Studies and the Interuniversity Center for European Studies in Montreal.†Alfred Diamant was published by Princeton University Press and by top ranking journals like Administrative Science Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and PS. Political Science and Politics. Diamant’s “areas of expertise†were “Comparative Western European Politics and Social Policy.†Together with his colleague, James Christoph, he “established Indiana University as a major site of the study of European culture, society and politics.†John D.Martz called the “works of Maurice Duvergier, Sigmund Neumann and Alfred Diamant†that focus on the study of political parties “Western European-oriented classics.†D.B. Robertson saw Alfred Diamant as “a gifted and humane scholar.â€
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