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David Apter

{{Short description|American political scientist and sociologist}}

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| birth_name = David Ernest Apter

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|12|18}}

| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|05|04|1924|12|18}}

| death_place = North Haven, Connecticut

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| occupation = Political scientist

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| known_for = Sociology of developing nations

| notable_works =The Politics of Modernization

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David Ernest Apter (December 18, 1924 – May 4, 2010) was an American political scientist and sociologist. He was Henry J. Heinz Professor of Comparative Political and Social Development and senior research scientist at Yale University.

He was born on December 18, 1924. He taught at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago (where he was the executive secretary of the Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations), the University of California, (where he was director of the Institute of International Studies), and Yale University, where he held a joint appointment in political science and sociology and served as director of the Social Science Division, chair of Sociology, and was a founding fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1966.{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=22 April 2011}}

He was a Guggenheim Fellow, a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California, a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, as well as a Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer. He did field research on development, democratization and political violence in Africa, Latin America, Japan (Sanrizuka Struggle etc.), and China.

In 2006 he was the first recipient of the Foundation Mattei Dogan prize for contributions to Interdisciplinary research.{{cite web|title =International Social Science Council |publisher=UNESCO |url =http://www.unesco.org/ngo/issc/3_activities/3_prizes.htm#mattei | accessdate =2010-02-04}}

Apter died in his home in North Haven, Connecticut, from complications due to cancer on May 4, 2010.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/world/10apter.html?ref=obituaries&_r=0 |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |title=David E. Apter, Yale Political Scientist, Is Dead at 85 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=10 May 2010 |accessdate= June 12, 2015}}

Bibliography

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=Monographs=

  • {{cite book |last=Apter |first=David E. |title=The Gold Coast in Transition |year=1955 |publisher=Princeton University Press}}
  • {{cite book |last=Apter |first=David E. |author-mask=—— |title=The Political Kingdom in Uganda: A Study in Bureaucratic Nationalism |url=https://archive.org/details/politicalkingdom0000apte |url-access=registration |date=1961 |publisher=Princeton University Press }}
  • {{cite book |last=Apter |first=David E. |author-mask=——|title=Ghana in Transition|year=1963|publisher=Atheneum |location=New York}}
  • {{cite book |last=Apter |first=David E. |author-mask=—— |title=The Politics of Modernization |url=https://archive.org/details/politicsofmodern0000apte |url-access=registration |year=1965 |publisher=University of Chicago Press }} (Japanese, Turkish, and Indonesian editions subsequently published)
  • {{cite book |last=Apter |first=David E. |author-mask=—— |title=Choice and the Politics of Allocation |url=https://archive.org/details/choicepoliticsof0000apte |url-access=registration |year=1971 |location=New Haven |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300014440 }}
  • {{cite book |last1=Apter |first1=David E. |last2=Sawa |first2=Nagayo |title=Against the State: Politics and Social Protest in Japan |url=https://archive.org/details/againststatepoli00apterich |url-access=registration |year=1984 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-00921-9 }} (Japanese edition: Iwanami)
  • {{cite book |last1=Apter |first1=David E. |title=Rethinking Development: Modernization, Dependency, and Post-Modern Politics |date=1987 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=0803929722 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/rethinkingdevelo0000apte }}
  • {{cite book|last1=Apter |first1=David E. |last2=Saich |first2=Tony|title=Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic |year=1994|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-76780-5}}

=Essay collections=

  • {{cite book |last=Apter |first=David E. |title=Political Change |year=1973 |publisher=Frank Cass & Company |isbn=0714629413 |url=https://archive.org/details/politicalchangec0000apte }}

:Received the Woodrow Wilson Foundation award for the best book of the year on government, politics, or international affairs){{cite web|title =Woodrow Wilson Foundation|url =https://apsanet.org/media/Woodrow%20Wilson%20Foundation%20Award.pdf|accessdate =2010-02-04|archive-date =2014-10-19|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20141019205758/http://www.apsanet.org/media/Woodrow%20Wilson%20Foundation%20Award.pdf|url-status =dead}}

=Edited volumes=

  • {{cite book|editor1-last=Apter |editor1-first=David E. |title=Ideology and Discontent |year=1964 |publisher=The Free Press of Glencoe |isbn=0029007607}}
  • {{cite book|editor1-last=Apter |editor1-first=David E. |editor2-last=Joll |editor2-first=James |editor-link2=James Joll |title=Anarchism Today |series=Studies in Comparative Development |year=1971 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=0333120418}}
  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Apter |editor1-first=David E. |editor2-last=Rosberg |editor2-first=Carl G. |title=Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa |year=1993 |publisher=University Press of Virginia |isbn=0813914795 |url=https://archive.org/details/politicaldevelop00davi }}
  • {{cite book|editor-last=Apter |editor-first=David E.|title=The Legitimization of Violence |year=1997 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-0814706497}}

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References

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External links

  • [http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1806 David Ernest Apter Papers (MS 1806).] Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

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