POLITICAL SCIENTIST
David Easton
1917 - 2014
David Easton
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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Easton has received more than 413,429 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). David Easton is the 16th most popular political scientist (down from 15th in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Canada (down from 63rd in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Political Scientist.
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56.27
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23
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6.04
Effective Languages (L*)
2.58
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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS
Among political scientists, David Easton ranks 16 out of 29. Before him are Robert A. Dahl, Johan Galtung, Maurice Duverger, Gene Sharp, Joseph Nye, and Aleksandr Dugin. After him are Muhammad Asad, Robert D. Putnam, Arend Lijphart, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, John Mearsheimer, and Leonard Hobhouse.
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Robert A. Dahl
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HPI: 62.26
Rank: 10
Johan Galtung
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HPI: 62.08
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Maurice Duverger
1917 - 2014
HPI: 60.99
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Gene Sharp
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HPI: 59.58
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Joseph Nye
1937 - Present
HPI: 59.11
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Aleksandr Dugin
1962 - Present
HPI: 58.59
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David Easton
1917 - 2014
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 16
Muhammad Asad
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HPI: 55.65
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Robert D. Putnam
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 18
Arend Lijphart
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.38
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Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut
1772 - 1840
HPI: 55.25
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John Mearsheimer
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 21
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1864 - 1929
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 22
Contemporaries
Among people born in 1917, David Easton ranks 101. Before him are László Szabó, Erich Rudorffer, Maya Deren, Augusto Roa Bastos, Yukio Tsuda, and Kamal Jumblatt. After him are Andrew Wyeth, Brad Dexter, Alexander Schmorell, Kunitaka Sueoka, Jânio Quadros, and Roque Máspoli. Among people deceased in 2014, David Easton ranks 97. Before him are Ken Takakura, Go Seigen, Valeri Kubasov, Igor Mitoraj, Alicia Rhett, and Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia. After him are Sabah, Huber Matos, Alexander Imich, Mário Coluna, Björn Waldegård, and Alice Herz-Sommer.
Others Born in 1917
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László Szabó
1917 - 1998
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 95
Erich Rudorffer
1917 - 2016
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 96
Maya Deren
1917 - 1961
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 97
Augusto Roa Bastos
1917 - 2005
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 98
Yukio Tsuda
1917 - 1979
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 99
Kamal Jumblatt
1917 - 1977
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 100
David Easton
1917 - 2014
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 101
Andrew Wyeth
1917 - 2009
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 102
Brad Dexter
1917 - 2002
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 103
Alexander Schmorell
1917 - 1943
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 104
Kunitaka Sueoka
1917 - 1998
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 105
Jânio Quadros
1917 - 1992
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 106
Roque Máspoli
1917 - 2004
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 107
Others Deceased in 2014
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Ken Takakura
1931 - 2014
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 91
Go Seigen
1914 - 2014
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 92
Valeri Kubasov
1935 - 2014
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 93
Igor Mitoraj
1944 - 2014
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 94
Alicia Rhett
1915 - 2014
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 95
Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia
1922 - 2014
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 96
David Easton
1917 - 2014
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 97
Sabah
1927 - 2014
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 98
Huber Matos
1918 - 2014
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 99
Alexander Imich
1903 - 2014
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 100
Mário Coluna
1935 - 2014
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 101
Björn Waldegård
1943 - 2014
HPI: 56.11
Rank: 102
Alice Herz-Sommer
1903 - 2014
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 103
In Canada
Among people born in Canada, David Easton ranks 101 out of 1,350. Before him are Joe Weider (1919), Donna Strickland (1959), William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874), Denny Doherty (1940), Ian Stevenson (1918), and Steven Pinker (1954). After him are Walter Huston (1883), Conrad Bain (1923), Louis Slotin (1910), Norman Jewison (1926), Loreena McKennitt (1957), and Joseph Wiseman (1918).
Others born in Canada
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Joe Weider
1919 - 2013
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 95
Donna Strickland
1959 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 96
William Lyon Mackenzie King
1874 - 1950
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 97
Denny Doherty
1940 - 2007
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 98
Ian Stevenson
1918 - 2007
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 99
Steven Pinker
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 100
David Easton
1917 - 2014
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 101
Walter Huston
1883 - 1950
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 102
Conrad Bain
1923 - 2013
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 103
Louis Slotin
1910 - 1946
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 104
Norman Jewison
1926 - 2024
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 105
Loreena McKennitt
1957 - Present
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 106
Joseph Wiseman
1918 - 2009
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 107
Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In Canada
Among political scientists born in Canada, David Easton ranks 1.
