David Apter
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American political scientist/sociologist
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David Apter's Degrees
- PhD Political Science University of Chicago
- Bachelors Political Science University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Ernest Apter was an American political scientist and sociologist. He was Henry J. Heinz Professor of Comparative Political and Social Development and senior research scientist at Yale University.
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Published Works
- Ideology and discontent (1966) (1238)
- The politics of modernization (1966) (616)
- Ghana in transition (1973) (197)
- Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic (1994) (125)
- The Political Kingdom in Uganda: A Study in Bureaucratic Nationalism (1962) (105)
- The Legitimization of Violence (1997) (103)
- The Gold Coast in Transition (1956) (103)
- Rethinking Development: Modernization, Dependency and Postmodern Politics (1989) (101)
- The political kingdom in Uganda (1961) (88)
- Comparative politics : a reader (1965) (77)
- Political Violence in Analytical Perspective (1997) (61)
- Against the State: Politics and Social Protest in Japan. (1984) (61)
- Some conceptual approaches to the study of modernization (1970) (51)
- The Role of Traditionalism in the Political Modernization of Ghana and Uganda (1960) (47)
- Political religion in the new nations (1964) (47)
- Comparative methods in sociology : essays on trends and applications (1973) (44)
- Political development and the new realism in Sub-Saharan Africa (1996) (39)
- Against the State. (1985) (38)
- Nkrumah, Charisma, and the Coup (1968) (37)
- Introduction to political analysis (1977) (34)
- Political Protest and Social Change: Analyzing Politics (1994) (34)
- Choice and the Politics of Allocation. (1973) (33)
- Political Protest and Social Change (1995) (27)
- The Multinational Corporation and Social Change (1976) (24)
- Comparative Politics, Old and New (1998) (24)
- Democracy for Uganda: A Case for Comparison (1995) (22)
- Social Performance: Politics as theatre: an alternative view of the rationalities of power (2006) (20)
- A Political History of Ghana, 1850–1928 by David Kimble Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963. Pp. xviii + 587. 65s. (1964) (19)
- A Comparative Method for the Study of Politics (1958) (19)
- Ghana's Independence: Triumph and Paradox (2008) (17)
- Some Reflections on the Role of a Political Opposition in New Nations (1962) (16)
- on Clifford Geertz (2007) (14)
- The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History.Robert Darnton (1985) (13)
- The Chicago School and the roots of urban ethnography (2009) (12)
- Political Development in Uganda (1956) (11)
- Democracy and Emancipatory Movements: Notes for a Theory of Inversionary Discourse (1992) (8)
- The Passing of Development Studies ‐ Over the Shoulder With a Backward Glance (1980) (8)
- Demacracy, Violence and Emancipatory Movements: Notes for a Theory of Inversionary Discourse (1993) (7)
- Comparative Government: Developing New Nations (1968) (7)
- Choice and the politics of allocation;: A developmental theory, (1971) (7)
- The Old Anarchism and the New‐Some Comments (1970) (6)
- Some problems of local government in Uganda (1959) (6)
- Contemporary analytical theory (1972) (6)
- Bearing Witness: Maoism as Religion (2005) (6)
- Theory and the Study of Politics (1957) (6)
- Some Economic Factors in the Political Development of the Gold Coast (1954) (5)
- Nationalism, Government, and Economic Growth (1959) (5)
- British West Africa: Patterns of Self- Government (1955) (4)
- An approach to interdisciplinarity (2009) (4)
- Wang Shiwei and "Wild lilies" : rectification and purges in the Chinese Communist Party, 1942-1944 (1994) (4)
- Democracy for Uganda: A Case for (2016) (3)
- New Nations and the Scientific Revolution (1961) (3)
- Political change: collected essays (1973) (3)
- Why Political Systems Change (1968) (3)
- Radicalization and Embourgeoisement: Some Hypotheses for a Comparative Study of History (1971) (3)
- The Premise of Parliamentary Planning (1973) (2)
- Nationalism and Political Identity (1995) (2)
- Theory and Reality in the Study of Development@@@The Politics of Modernization@@@Financing African Development@@@The Stages of Political Development@@@Aspects of Political Development@@@Nigeria: the Tribes, the Nation, or the Race@@@Development Planning: Lessons of Experience (1966) (2)
- The Old Anarchism and the New-Some Comments (1970) (2)
- Nigeria: Background to Nationalism. By James S. Coleman. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1958. Pp. xiv, 510. $7.50.)Local Government in West Africa. By L. Gray Cowan. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958. Pp. x, 292. $5.00.) (1959) (2)
- Introduction: "The Trial" (1992) (2)
- Some Contrarian Perspectives on the Political Consequences of Globalization (2008) (2)
- Seeking the Peace (2002) (2)
- Africa's Quest for Order. By Fred G. Burke. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1964. Pp. 177. $4.50.) (1965) (2)
- APPENDIX. A NOTE ON METHODOLOGY (2015) (1)
- Discussion at Bellagio : the political alternatives of development : a Conference on The Nation and The Political Alternatives of Development, under auspices of the American Universities Field Staff and held at Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, March 8-20, 1964 (1964) (1)
- Senegal: a study in French assimilation policy by Michael Crowder London, Oxford University Press for Institute of Race Relations, 1962. Pp. 104. 7s. 6d. (1963) (1)
- Clifford Geertz as a Cultural System (2011) (1)
- Political Philosophies, Ideologies, and the Quest for Meaning (1995) (1)
- Parsons's Politics (1987) (1)
- Are We All Latin Americans Now? (1983) (1)
- EIGHT. Sanrizuka: A Case of Violent Protest in a Multiparty State (1988) (1)
- Comparative Sociology: Some Paradigms and their Moments (2005) (1)
- Globalisation and the politics of negative pluralism (2008) (1)
- Migrants and Proletarians: Urban Labor in the Economic Development of Uganda. (1961) (1)
- CHAPTER 1. THE AFRICAN CHALLENGE TO DEMOCRACY (2015) (0)
- Appointments and Staff Changes (1956) (0)
- Interdisciplinary from the Start (2014) (0)
- Pluralist Theories and Social Groups (1995) (0)
- The Nation-State and Institutionalist Theories (1995) (0)
- Appointment and Staff Changes (1958) (0)
- Duchamp's Urinal: Who Says What's Rational When Things Get Tough? (2006) (0)
- Chapter Seven (1968) (0)
- The Politics of the Developing Areas . Edited by Gabriel Almond and James S. Coleman. (Princeton University Press, 1960. Pp. xii, 591. $10.00.) (1961) (0)
- An Epitaph for Two Revolutions That Failed. (1974) (0)
- THE REVIEW OF POLITICS as the following, concerned with using the atomic bomb in Asia: "Bombing of human targets in Asia (since purely military and indus- (2009) (0)
- Smoke in the Hills: Political Tension in the Morogoro District of Tanganyika By Young Roland and Fosbrooke Henry A.. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1960. Pp. xii, 212. $5.50.) (1960) (0)
- CHAPTER 5. POLITICAL ORGANIZATION AMONG THE AKANS (2015) (0)
- The Political Party as a Modernizing Instrument (1969) (0)
- Development and the Political Process : A Plan for a Constitution (2017) (0)
- CHAPTER 11. THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY IN ACTION (2015) (0)
- Africa and the Social Scientist (1954) (0)
- PREFACE TO SECOND REVISED EDITION (2015) (0)
- CHAPTER 7. THE POLITICS OF INDIRECT RULE (2015) (0)
- The Future of Democratic Society (1969) (0)
- Books Received (1965) (0)
- CHAPTER 15. GHANA AS A NEW NATION (2015) (0)
- Book Review:Political Life: Why People Get Involved in Politics. Robert E. Lane (1961) (0)
- DAVID APTER (2010) (0)
- Religion and Political Vision (1995) (0)
- DAVID APTER (2010) (0)
- Volume Information (1968) (0)
- David Ernest Apter, February 27, 1991 (2013) (0)
- Mao and the Cultural Revolution in China: Perspectives on Mao's Last Revolution (2008) (0)
- Some problems of comparative political analysis in Africa (1983) (0)
- Commentary on Pasquino's Appraisal (1970) (0)
- The Learning of Political Attitudes (1995) (0)
- OTHER: Social Science Research on Latin America: Report and Papers of a Seminar on Latin American Studies in the United States held at Stanford, California, July 8–August 23, 1963. Charles Wagley (1966) (0)
- South Africa . By H. M. Robertson. (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1957. Pp. 192. $3.50.) (1958) (0)
- Inside Africa. By John Gunther. (New York: Harper and Brothers. 1955. Pp. xxiii, 952. $6.00.) (1957) (0)
- Chapter One (2004) (0)
- CHAPTER 3. THE PHYSICAL AND ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT (2015) (0)
- Books Received (1966) (0)
- And Now, the University College. (1971) (0)
- TRENDS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES: A CONFERENCE REPORT, (1965) (0)
- Introduction: People in Protest (1995) (0)
- CHAPTER 2. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND (2015) (0)
- Section Four: Introduction* (2004) (0)
- CHAPTER 13. CONTROL FACTORS IN INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFER (2015) (0)
- Modernization and the Structure of Societies: A Setting for International Affairs.Marion J. Levy, Jr. (1967) (0)
- CHAPTER 8. TOWARDS AUTONOMY WITHIN THE COMMONWEALTH (2015) (0)
- CHAPTER 16. GHANA IN TRANSITION: A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW (2015) (0)
- Notes for a Theory of Nondemocratic Representation (2017) (0)
- Dilemmas of Development (1954) (0)
- Choices Between Political Systems (1969) (0)
- CHAPTER 12. NATIONAL ISSUES AND LOCAL POLITICS (2015) (0)
- From Empire to Nation . By Rupert Emerson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. Pp. x, 466. $7.75.) (1961) (0)
- CHAPTER 10. THE PATTERNS OF GOLD COAST POLITICS (2015) (0)
- A 60s Movement in the 80s (1984) (0)
- PREFACE TO FIRST REVISED EDITION (2015) (0)
- Foucalt's Paradox: From Inversionary Discourse to Hegemonic Power in "Mao's Republic" (1995) (0)
- Problems in Culture Change (1956) (0)
- The Nkrumah Government: A Record of Achievement (1958) (0)
- Political Violence and Discourse Theory (2010) (0)
- Reviews of Books (2006) (0)
- CHAPTER 4. THE TRADITIONALLY ORIENTED SYSTEM (2015) (0)
- CHAPTER 6. PATTERNS OF INDIRECT RULE (2015) (0)
- Book reviews (2010) (0)
- From Order to Violence: Modernization Reconfigured (2011) (0)
- VERNON VAN DYKE. Political Science: A Philosophical Analysis. Pp. xi, 235. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1960. $5.00 (1961) (0)
- SIR ANDREW COHEN: AN OBITUARY (2009) (0)
- Book Review:Communications in Africa: A Search for Boundaries. Leonard W. Doob (1963) (0)
- CHAPTER 14. PROSPECTS OF GOLD COAST DEMOCRACY (2015) (0)
- CHAPTER 9. THE STRUCTURES OF SECULAR GOVERNMENT (2015) (0)
- Chapter Two (2009) (0)
- System, process and the politics of economic development (1964) (0)
- Book Review:A Survey of North West Africa (The Maghrib) Nevill Barbour (1961) (0)
- Development and the Political Process (1971) (0)
- Books Received (1961) (0)
- Theories of the World System (1995) (0)
- アメリカ・ラジカリズムこの一〇年の変貌 (1978) (0)
- Western Patterns on an African Base (1955) (0)
- Chapter Four (2019) (0)
- 100th APSA Annual Meeting Attendees Offer Evaluations and Suggestions (2005) (0)
- Chapter Five (2012) (0)
- Chapter Three (1994) (0)
- Back Matter (1955) (0)
- Chapter Six (2009) (0)
- Community Development: Achievements and Deficiencies* (2017) (0)
- Book Review:Leadership and Power in the Chinese Community of Thailand. G. William Skinner (1959) (0)
- What's Happening in Ghana? (1957) (0)
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