Monday 12 October 2009

The Chicago School in Comparative Politics

Looking at the formation and influence of the Chicago school, prominent in the 1920s and 1930s.

Footnote in Munck and Snyder (1997, p. 41). Key members of the school were Merriam, Harold Gosnell, Lasswell, White, Wright - extended to graduate students trained at Chicago, e.g.
Gabriel Almond, V.O Key Jr. David Truman, Herbert Simon (the only political scientist ever awarded a Nobel prize, in economics).

On the Chicago school and its members see Almond (1990, 309-28)