1917 - 2014
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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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.
1915 - 2014
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 10
1930 - 2024
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 11
1917 - 2014
HPI: 60.99
Rank: 12
1928 - 2018
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 13
1937 - Present
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 14
1962 - Present
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 15
1917 - 2014
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 16
1900 - 1992
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 17
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 18
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 19
1772 - 1840
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 20
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 21
1864 - 1929
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 22
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.
1917 - 1998
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 95
1917 - 2016
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 96
1917 - 1961
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 97
1917 - 2005
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 98
1917 - 1979
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 99
1917 - 1977
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 100
1917 - 2014
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 101
1917 - 2009
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 102
1917 - 2002
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 103
1917 - 1943
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 104
1917 - 1998
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 105
1917 - 1992
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 106
1917 - 2004
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 107
1931 - 2014
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 91
1914 - 2014
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 92
1935 - 2014
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 93
1944 - 2014
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 94
1915 - 2014
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 95
1922 - 2014
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 96
1917 - 2014
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 97
1927 - 2014
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 98
1918 - 2014
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 99
1903 - 2014
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 100
1935 - 2014
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 101
1943 - 2014
HPI: 56.11
Rank: 102
1903 - 2014
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 103
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).
1919 - 2013
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 95
1959 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 96
1874 - 1950
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 97
1940 - 2007
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 98
1918 - 2007
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 99
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 100
1917 - 2014
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 101
1883 - 1950
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 102
1923 - 2013
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 103
1910 - 1946
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 104
1926 - 2024
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 105
1957 - Present
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 106
1918 - 2009
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 107
Among political scientists born in Canada, David Easton ranks 1.