David Apter

David E. Apter
Born	David Ernest Apter December 18, 1924 Brooklyn, New York
Died	May 4, 2010 (aged 85) New Haven, Connecticut
Occupation	Political scientist
Known for	Sociology of developing nations
Notable work	The Politics of Modernization

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 at 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, 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]

Bibliography

Monographs

• Apter, David E. (1955). The Gold Coast in Transition. Princeton University Press.
• —— (1961). The Political Kingdom in Uganda: A Study in Bureaucratic Nationalism. Princeton University Press.
• —— (1963). Ghana in Transition. New York: Atheneum.
• —— (1965). The Politics of Modernization. University of Chicago Press. (Japanese, Turkish, and Indonesian editions subsequently published)
• —— (1971). Choice and the Politics of Allocation. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Apter, David E.; Sawa, Nagayo (1984). Against the State: Politics and Social Protest in Japan. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00921-9. (Japanese edition: Iwanami)
• Apter, David E. (1987). Rethinking Development: Modernization, Dependency, and Post-Modern Politics. SAGE Publications. ISBN 0803929722.
• Apter, David E.; Saich, Tony (1994). Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-76780-5.

Essay collections

• Apter, David E. (1973). Political Change. Frank Cass & Company. ISBN 0714629413.

Received the Woodrow Wilson Foundation award for the best book of the year on government, politics, or international affairs)^[4]

Edited volumes

• Apter, David E., ed. (1964). Ideology and Discontent. The Free Press of Glencoe. ISBN 0029007607.
• Apter, David E.; Joll, James, eds. (1971). Anarchism Today. Studies in Comparative Development. Macmillan. ISBN 0333120418.
• Apter, David E.; Rosberg, Carl G., eds. (1993). Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa. University Press of Virginia. ISBN 0813914795.
• Apter, David E., ed. (1997). The Legitimization of Violence. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0814706497.

References

1. "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
2. "International Social Science Council". UNESCO. Retrieved 2010-02-04.
3. Hevesi, Dennis (10 May 2010). "David E. Apter, Yale Political Scientist, Is Dead at 85". The New York Times. Retrieved June 12, 2015.
4. "Woodrow Wilson Foundation" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-02-04.