Philip Converse

Ernest Philip Converse ( born November 17, 1928 in Concord, New Hampshire ) is an American sociologist, political scientist and pollster. He served from 1960 to 1989 as a professor at the University of Michigan, where he headed the Institute of Social Research 1986-1989. Among his best known and most influential works is a 1960 together with other authors under the title "The American Voter " published analysis of individual voting behavior of voters in political elections in the United States.

Life

Philip Converse was born in 1928 in Concord, and in 1949 became the Denison University a bachelor's degree, a year later at the State University of Iowa, an MA in English Literature in 1956 and a second MA in sociology at the University of Michigan, where he also received his doctorate in 1958. At the University of Paris, he also earned a degree in 1956 in France studies. He then became Director of Studies and later program director at Survery Research Center, University of Michigan, where he acted Professor of Sociology, 1963-1965 Associate Professor of Political Science and from 1965 to 1989 as a professor of Sociology and Political Science from 1960 to 1963 as an Assistant. From 1986 to 1989 he was director of the Institute of Social Research of the University.

In 1960 he published together with Angus Campbell, Warren E. Miller and Donald E. Stokes with the monograph "The American Voter " an analysis of individual voting behavior of voters in presidential and congressional elections in the United States, as far as the presence of one of influential works of electoral research applies. The focus of research by Philip Converse were in particular the influence of party identification, ideology and religion of a people to his choice behavior as well as in the field of comparative politics, legislation, and voter behavior in France. In the years 1980/1981 he chaired the International Society for Political Psychology, as well as 1983/1984, the American Political Science Association as President.

Awards

The Denison University (1974) and the University of Chicago (1979 ) awarded an honorary doctorate Philip Converse. In addition, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1973 the National Academy of Sciences in 1968.

Works (selection)

  • The American Voter. New York 1960
  • The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics. In: David Apter (ed.) Ideology and Discontent. New York 1964, p 206-261
  • Elections and the Political Order. New York 1966
  • The Human Meaning of Social Change. New York 1972
  • The Quality of American Life: Perceptions, Evaluations, and Satisfactions. New York 1976
  • Political Representation in France. Cambridge MA 1986
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