The Most Famous
POLITICAL SCIENTISTS from Canada
This page contains a list of the greatest Canadian Political Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 29 Political Scientists, 1 of which were born in Canada. This makes Canada the birth place of the 7th most number of Political Scientists behind China and Russia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Canadian Political Scientists of all time. This list of famous Canadian Political Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. David Easton (1917 - 2014)
With an HPI of 56.27, David Easton is the most famous Canadian Political Scientist. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
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. Policy analysts have utilized his five-fold scheme for studying the policy-making process: input, conversion, output, feedback and environment. Gunnell argues that since the 1950s the concept of "system" was the most important theoretical concept used by American political scientists. The idea appeared in sociology and other social sciences but it was Easton who specified how it could be best applied to behavioral research on politics. He was president of the American Political Science Association.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as political scientists born between 1917 and 1917. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased political scientists include David Easton.
