Harold Lasswell
Political scientist, Author
1902 – 1978
Who was Harold Lasswell?
Harold Dwight Lasswell was a leading American political scientist and communications theorist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology and was a professor at Yale University in law. He was a President of the American Political Science Association 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." Areas of research in which Lasswell worked included the importance of personality, social structure, and culture in the explanation of political phenomena. He was noted to be ahead of his time in employing a variety of methodological approaches that later became standards across a variety of intellectual traditions including interviewing techniques, content analysis, para-experimental techniques, and statistical measurement.
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- Born
- Feb 13, 1902
Illinois - Also known as
- Harold Dwight Lasswell
- Harold D. Lasswell
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Employment
- University of Chicago
- Died
- Dec 18, 1978
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on July 23, 2013
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