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David Easton

Political Science

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#57

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David Easton's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of Chicago
Masters Political Science University of Chicago
Bachelors Political Science University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, David Easton was a Canadian-born American political scientist. From 1947 to 1997, he served as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. At the forefront of both the behavioralist and post-behavioralist revolutions in the discipline of political science during the 1950s and 1970s, Easton provided the discipline's most widely used definition of politics as the authoritative allocation of values for the society. He was renowned for his application of systems theory to the study of political science. Policy analysts have utilized his five-fold scheme for studying the policy-making process: input, conversion, output, feedback and environment. Gunnell argues that since the 1950s the concept of "system" was the most important theoretical concept used by American political scientists. The idea appeared in sociology and other social sciences but it was Easton who specified how it could be best applied to behavioral research on politics. He was president of the American Political Science Association.

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David Easton's Published Works

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A Systems Analysis of Political Life (1966) (3844)
A Re-assessment of the Concept of Political Support (1975) (1999)
A framework for political analysis (1966) (689)
An Approach to the Analysis of Political Systems (1957) (622)
The political system (1953) (574)
The Political System: An Inquiry into the State of Political Science. (1953) (551)
Children in the Political System: Origins of Political Legitimacy (1969) (414)
The Child'S Acquisition of Regime Norms: Political Efficacy (1967) (276)
The New Revolution in Political Science (1969) (253)
The Child's Political World (1962) (150)
Political Science in the United States (1985) (134)
Varieties of political theory (1967) (102)
The Political System Besieged by the State (1981) (102)
The analysis of political structure (1990) (94)
THE CHILD'S CHANGING IMAGE OF THE PRESIDENT (1960) (85)
The Child's Image of Government (1965) (78)
The Decline of Modern Political Theory (1951) (67)
Theoretical Approaches to Political Support (1976) (66)
The Development of Political Science : A Comparative Survey (1991) (54)
Regime and discipline : democracy and the development of political science (1995) (40)
Harold Lasswell; Policy Scientist for a Democratic Society (1950) (38)
Divided Knowledge: Across Disciplines, Across Cultures (1991) (29)
The Theoretical Relevance of Political Socialization (1968) (28)
The Division, Integration, and Transfer of Knowledge (1991) (28)
Walter Bagehot and Liberal Realism (1949) (23)
Effective irrationality measure for certain algebraic numbers (1986) (14)
The Function of Formal Education in a Political System (1957) (13)
The Role of the Elementary School in Political Socialization (1962) (10)
Some Limits of Exchange Theory in Politics (1972) (9)
Traditional and Behavioral Research in American Political Science (1957) (9)
Limits of the equilibrium model in social research (2007) (8)
A Structural Approach to Comparative Politics (2010) (5)
The future and the common ground (2015) (5)
A systems approach to political life (1966) (5)
Easton: The Political System: An Inquiry into the State of Political Science (1954) (4)
Shifting Images of Social Science and Values (1955) (4)
Regime and Discipline (1995) (3)
Political Culture and Political Systems (1970) (3)
Specialization and Integration (1990) (3)
Reflections on criticisms (1973) (3)
What Does America Read? (1947) (3)
Systems Analysis in Politics and its Critics (1979) (2)
A Framework for Political Analysis.@@@A Systems Analysis of Political Life.@@@Varieties of Political Theory. (1968) (2)
Committee on Journals American Political Science Association: Report (1969) (1)
1. Classification of Political Systems (1957) (1)
SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM. PUBLICATION 104, A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO POLITICAL LIFE. (1966) (1)
All in Our Genes? (2001) (1)
THE DEVELOPMENT OF BASIC ATTITUDES AND VALUES TOWARDS GOVERNMENT AND CITIZENSHIP DURING THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YEARS. FINAL REPORT. (1968) (1)
The Condition of American Political Science (2017) (1)
Book Review:Political Parties. Robert Michels, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul (1949) (1)
Report of the Committee on Journals (1968) (1)
TAYSIDE AND FIFE ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMMITTEE GLENROTHES (2004) (0)
THE CANADIAN URBAN SYSTflvl AS A POLITICAL SYSTflvl, PART (2010) (0)
Systems analysis in political science : a Marxist critique of David Easton (1987) (0)
The Relevance of Bio politic s to Political Theory (1976) (0)
Other Activities (1957) (0)
Acknowledgments (1990) (0)
Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies (2018) (0)
100th APSA Annual Meeting Attendees Offer Evaluations and Suggestions (2005) (0)
Almond ’ s Model : Structural Functionalism (2020) (0)
• all "interactions through which values are authoritatively allocated for a society" • a "vast and perpetual conversation process" (1953) (0)
Reports of the Regional Centers (1990) (0)
Essay Reviews : IMPACT AND RESPONSE: FEDERAL AID AND STATE ED UCA-TION AGENCIES. Mike M. Milstein. New York: Teachers College Press, 1976. 155 pages. Reviewed by Joseph M. Cronin, Illinois State Superintendent of Education (1977) (0)
The Analysis of Social and Political Systems@@@Modern Social Theories@@@The Nerves of Government: Models of Political Communication and Control@@@Exchange and Power in Social Life@@@The Politics of the Developing Areas@@@A Framework for Political Analysis (1965) (0)
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legitimate and that confidence will return when conditions are perceived to improve, they also cite the "brittleness" of our faith in the system and (1984) (0)
Book-Reviews (1957) (0)
PSC volume 2 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1969) (0)
Liberalism and the Challenge of Fascism; Social Forces in England and France (1815–1870). By J. Salwyn Schapiro. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1949. Pp. xi, 421. $5.00.) (1949) (0)
The Art of Classical Details: Theory, Design, and Craftsmanship (2013) (0)
Annick Percheron (1992) (0)
NO PUB DATE NOTE AVAILABLE FROM EDRS PRICE DESCRIPTORS DOCUMENT RESUME Collier , David The Political System (2011) (0)
MAJOR POLITICAL SYSTEMS IN THE WORLD (2008) (0)
Great Britain - where traditions thrive today. (1981) (0)

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