David E. Apter

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David Ernest Apter (born December 18, 1924) is an American political scientist.

[edit] Literary works

• The Gold Coast in transition, 1955
• The politics of modernization, 1965
• Political change, 1973

Apter, David E. is the Henry J Heinz Professor Emeritus of Comparative Political and Social Development and Senior Research Scientist at Yale University, He has 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 holds 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 has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Institution of Advanced Study at Princeton, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science in Palo Alto, a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, as well as a Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer. He has done field research on development, democratization and political violence in Africa, Latin America, Japan, and China. His book, Choice and the Politics of Allocation received the Woodrow Wilson award for the best book of the year in political science and international studies. He is the author of many books and articles including Ghana in Transition, (Princeton), The Political Kingdom in Uganda, (Princeton PUP; London: Frank Cass), The Politics of Modernization, (Chicago, Japanese, Turkish, and Indonesian editions), Against the State, (Harvard; Iwanami, Japanese ed), Political Discourse in Mao’s Republic, with Tony Saich, (Harvard), and The Legitimization of Violence, (Macmillan; NYU). In 2006 he was he was the first recipient of the Dogan Foundation Prize for contributions to Interdisciplinary research..