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.[1]
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.[2]
Apter died in his home in North Haven, Connecticut, from complications due to cancer on May 4, 2010.[3]
^"Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
^"International Social Science Council". UNESCO. Retrieved 2010-02-04.
^Hevesi, Dennis (10 May 2010). "David E. Apter, Yale Political Scientist, Is Dead at 85". The New York Times. Retrieved June 12, 2015.
Interdisciplinary research. Apter died in his home in North Haven, Connecticut, from complications due to cancer on May 4, 2010. Apter, David E. (1955). The Gold...
Michael DavidApted CMG (10 February 1941 – 7 January 2021) was an English television and film director and producer. Apted began working in television...
include: Andrew Apter, American historian and anthropologist Bill Apter, journalist DavidApter, American political scientist Nikolai Apter, former pair...
reporting "backstage" goings on. Apter was so closely associated with these magazines that they were often known as "Apter Mags". The influence of these...
Perspective on Comparative Politics, Past and Present," pp. 3–32, in DavidApter and Harry Eckstein (eds.), Comparative Politics: A Reader (New York:...
Almond, Seymour Martin Lipset, Walt Rostow, Daniel Lerner, Lucian Pye, DavidApter, Alex Inkeles, Cyril Edwin Black, Bert F. Hoselitz, Myron Weiner, and...
Culture at New York University. Emily Apter is the daughter of the Yale political scientist David E. Apter. Apter was married to the architectural historian...
pp. 152–155 (Google link Archived 2016-01-29 at the Wayback Machine) DavidApter and Nagayo Sawa, Against the State: Politics and Social Protest in Japan...
Sanctuary Publishing. p. 96. Apter 2006, p. 106. Apter 2006, p. 112. Apter 2006, pp. 100–101. Apter 2006, p. 114. Roberts, David, ed. (2006). British Hit...
Rachel Wainer Apter (born July 22, 1980) is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Wainer Apter grew up in...
who have contributed to the development of modernization theory are: DavidApter, who did research on the political system and history of democracy; Seymour...
16, Paradise Reformed". The White Nile. Penguin. ISBN 9780060956394. DavidApter (1961). The Political Kingdom in Uganda: A Study of Bureaucratic Nationalism...
History of West Africa (2 vol. 1970–87) DavidApter, Ghana in transition (Princeton University Press, 2015). David Owusu-Ansah, Historical dictionary of...
to reach the path to modernization in his Rostovian take-off model. DavidApter concentrated on the political system and history of democracy, researching...
of Belief Systems in Mass Publics." In Ideology and Discontent, ed. DavidApter, 206–61. New York: Free Press. Almond, Gabriel. 1950. The American People...
Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apt, popularly known as the Apter Rebbe or Apter Rov, was born in Żmigród, Poland in 1748 and died in Mezhbizh, Russian Empire...
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best...
The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) was a tilting high speed train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s, for use on the West Coast...
of Belief Systems in Mass Publics." In Ideology and Discontent, ed. DavidApter, 206–261. New York: Free Press. Almond, Gabriel. 1950. The American People...
David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 2, 1966) is an American actor, director, comedian, and producer. He gained worldwide recognition for portraying...
to reach the path to modernisation in his Rostovian take-off model. DavidApter concentrated on the political system and history of democracy, researching...
of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia DavidApter – American political scientist and sociologist who was Henry J. Heinz...
IMDb. Apter, 2004. p. 34 Apter, 2004. p. 35 Kiedis, Sloman. (2004). Scar Tissue. Hyperion. p. 96. ISBN 1-4013-0101-0 Kiedis, Sloman, p. 64. Apter, 2004...
David Hume (/hjuːm/; born David Home; 7 May NS [26 April OS] 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian...
Global Information