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David Easton
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David Easton was a Canadian political scientist and university teacher born on 24 June 1917 in Toronto and died on 19 July 2014. He was educated at the University of Toronto, Harvard University, McMaster University and Kalamazoo College, and worked in the study of political systems, associated with the movement of behavioralism. Easton held a chairperson position and was employed by the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Chicago.
He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada, and wrote 30 works, including The Political System and A Framework for Political Analysis. He is recognised in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1917
- Works
- 30
Top works
- Uses and abuses of systems theory
- Divided knowledge
- Scout Annual
- A framework for political analysis
- The political system
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1959-04-27
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5
- Total plays
- 25
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,040x
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,841x
- The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.
· 1986 · cited 63,635x
- Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
· 1981 · cited 63,464x
- Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
· 2009 · cited 58,742x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Political science is the study of the authoritative allocation of values for a society.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1917-06-24 ) June 24, 1917, Toronto , Ontario , Canada
- Died
- July 19, 2014 (2014-07-19) (aged 97)
- Known for
- Political systems theory
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Toronto
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Position held
- chairperson
- Educated at
- Kalamazoo College
- Employer
- University of Chicago
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- political system
- Movement
- behavioralism
- Image
- DavidEaston.JPG
Show 4 more facts
- date of death
- 2014-07-19
- Commons category
- David Easton
- date of birth
- 1917-06-24
- member of
- Royal Society of Canada
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Encyclopedic overview
David Easton FRSC (June 24, 1917 – July 19, 2014) 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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