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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 ...
Other articles where David Easton is discussed: political science: Systems analysis: …groundbreaking work employing the approach, David Easton’s The Political System (1953), conceived the political system as integrating all activities through which social policy is formulated and executed—that is, the political system is the policy-making process. Easton defined political behaviour as ...
Systems theory in political science. Easton, David (1965). A Systems Analysis of Political Life, New York, S.32. Systems theory in political science is a highly abstract, partly holistic view of politics, influenced by cybernetics. The adaptation of system theory to political science was conceived by David Easton in 1953.
In political science: Systems analysis …employing the approach, David Easton’s The Political System (1953), conceived the political system as integrating all activities through which social policy is formulated and executed—that is, the political system is the policy-making process. Easton defined political behaviour as the “authoritative allocation of values,” or the distribution of ...
Nov 24, 2014 · David Easton (1917–2014) David Easton has left us at the age of 97. With David, the profession has lost a master of political thought. The absorbing preoccupation throughout his life was the attempt to conceive the universe of political facts in such a manner as to make possible testable propositions and general explanation.
