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David Easton

1917 - 2014

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David Easton (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Easton is the 17th most popular political scientist (down from 14th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Canada (down from 55th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Political Scientist.

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, David Easton ranks 17 out of 46. Before him are Harold Lasswell, Ralf Dahrendorf, Joseph Nye, Leonard Hobhouse, Maurice Duverger, and John Mearsheimer. After him are Gene Sharp, Muhammad Asad, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Graham Allison, Karine Jean-Pierre, and Rahime Perestu Sultan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, David Easton ranks 80. Before him are Kamal Jumblatt, Asmahan, Carson McCullers, David McClelland, Urie Bronfenbrenner, and Susan Hayward. After him are Pál Maléter, Herbert Lom, Magda Szabó, Robert Bloch, Alparslan Türkeş, and Henry Ford II. Among people deceased in 2014, David Easton ranks 75. Before him are Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Mary Anderson, Leo Tindemans, Hilderaldo Bellini, Étienne Mourrut, and Věra Chytilová. After him are P. D. James, Mike Nichols, Milan Galić, Karl Albrecht, Henry Hartsfield, and Vladimir Beara.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, David Easton ranks 82 out of 1,622. Before him are John Candy (1950), John Charles Fields (1863), Ryan Reynolds (1976), Geneviève Bujold (1942), Percy Williams (1908), and Paul Watson (1950). After him are Mylène Farmer (1961), Mack Sennett (1880), A. E. van Vogt (1912), Charles Taylor (1931), Lester B. Pearson (1897), and Julia (null).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In Canada

Among political scientists born in Canada, David Easton ranks 1. After him are Katharine Hayhoe (1972), and Bruce Gilley (1966).

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