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Harold Lasswell
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American political scientist (1902-1978)
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Harold Dwight Lasswell (1902–1978) was an American political scientist, academic, sociologist, and psychologist. Born in Donnellson, he was educated at Yale University and the University of Chicago. His professional career included positions at the University of Chicago, The New School, and Yale University, where he served as chairperson. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
Lasswell’s notable works include *Symbols of democracy*, *The future of political science*, *Power and society*, *Legal education and public policy*, and *The impact of mass psychology upon international law*. He died in Manhattan. His doctoral advisor was Charles Edward Merriam, and his doctoral students included Herbert Simon, Ithiel de Sola Pool, and Gabriel Almond.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1902
- Died
- 1978
- Works
- 186
Top works
- Symbols of democracy
- The future of political science
- Power and society
- Legal education and public policy
- The impact of mass psychology upon international law
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 6
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,573x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments
· 2011 · cited 11,954x
- TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions
· 2013 · cited 11,182x
- Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks
· 2012 · cited 10,970x
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Key facts
- Born
- February 13, 1902, Donnellson, Illinois , U.S.
- Died
- December 18, 1978 (aged 76), New York City, U.S.
- Education
- University of Chicago ( BA , PhD )
- Thesis
- Propaganda Technique in the World War (1926)
- Influences
- Havelock Ellis , Sigmund Freud , Karl Marx , Theodore Reik
- Discipline
- Political science , communications theory
- Institutions
- University of Chicago , Yale University , City University of New York , Temple University
- Notable students
- Chen Lung-chu
- Notable ideas
- Lasswell's model of communication, content analysis, garrison state, political psychology , policy sciences
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Harold Dwight Lasswell (February 13, 1902 – December 18, 1978) was an American political scientist and communications theorist. He was a professor of law at Yale University. He served as president of the American Political Science Association, American Society of International Law, and World Academy of Art and Science.
According to a biographical memorial written by Gabriel Almond at the time of Lasswell's death, and published by the National Academies of Sciences in 1987, Lasswell "ranked among the half dozen creative innovators in the social sciences in the twentieth century." At the time, Almond asserted that "few would question that he was the most original and productive political scientist of his time."
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