Gabriel Abraham Almond was an American political scientist best known for his pioneering work on comparative politics, political development, and political culture.
11 Facts About Gabriel Almond
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Gabriel Almond taught at Brooklyn College from 1939 to 1942.
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Gabriel Almond returned to academic life in 1947 and taught at Yale University where he was part of their Institute of International Studies until 1951, when he was part of a group that left for Princeton University and founded its Center of International Studies.
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Gabriel Almond subsequently returned to Yale in 1959, then went to Stanford University in 1963, where he remained until his retirement in 1993.
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Gabriel Almond was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1961 and the American Philosophical Society in 1966.
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Gabriel Almond was chair of the political science department at Stanford from 1964 to 1969 and spent time as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, the University of Belo Horizonte, and the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
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Gabriel Almond was the first recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award of the International Political Science Association in 1997.
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Gabriel Almond died on December 25,2002, in Pacific Grove, California, aged 91.
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Gabriel Almond broadened the field of political science in the 1950s by integrating approaches from other social science disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, and anthropology, into his work.
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Gabriel Almond transformed an interest in foreign policy into systematic studies of comparative political development and culture.
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Gabriel Almond was a prolific author, publishing 18 books and numerous journal articles, and co-writing many others.