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Harold Dwight Lasswell (February 13, 1902 – December 18, 1978) was an American political scientist and communications theorist. He earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy and economics and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He was a professor of law at Yale University.
Harold Lasswell was an influential political scientist known for seminal studies of power relations and of personality and politics and for other major contributions to contemporary behavioral political science.
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Harold Lasswell (born February 13, 1902, Donnellson, Illinois, U.S.—died December 18, 1978, New York, New York) was an influential political scientist known for seminal studies of power relations and of personality and politics and for other major contributions to contemporary behavioral political science.
Lasswell's model of communication is one of the first and most influential models of communication. It was initially published by Harold Lasswell in 1948 and analyzes communication in terms of five basic questions: "Who?", "Says What?", "In What Channel?", "To Whom?", and "With What Effect?".
Learn how Harold Lasswell, a political scientist and pragmatist, founded the policy sciences, a multidisciplinary movement that aimed to improve public policy. Explore the key concepts, methods, and challenges of the policy sciences.
Harold D. Lasswell's extensive and wide-ranging books and essays are extraordinarily rich sources of ideas, methods, and topics for the study of political behavior.
Harold Lasswell (1902–78) was a towering figure in political science from the 1930s through the 1970s and a scholar who made important contributions in many fields of the fledgling discipline.
