Polsby, Nelson W.

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Name (Latin)
Polsby, Nelson W.
Date of birth
1934-10-25
Date of death
2007-02-06
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Political science--Study and teaching
Occupation
Political science teachers
College teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 108340588
Wikidata: Q6990772
Library of congress: n 79091401
Sources of Information
  • His Politics and social life ... 1963.
  • Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 10/25/34)
  • Times online WWW site, Feb. 8, 2007(Professor Nelson Polsby; b. Nelson Woolf Polsby, Oct. 25, 1934; d. Feb. 6, 2007; American political scientist who became director of the Institute of Government Studies at Berkeley)
  • Who was who in America, 2006-2007(Polsby, Nelson Woolf; political science professor; born Norwich, Conn., October 25, 1934; A.B., Johns Hopkins, 1956; M.A., Yale University, 1958, Ph.D., 1961; instructor, University of Wisconsin, 1960-1961; from asst. prof. to prof. Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 1961-1968; prof. political science, University of California, Berkeley, 1967; director, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, 1989-1999; visiting faculty at: Columbia, 1963; Yale, 1963, 1967, 1975; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1970; Stanford, 1977, Harvard University, 1986-1987; Oxford University, 1994, 1997-1998; com. on pub. engineering policy, National Academy of Engineering, 1973-1976; commission on behavioral and social sciences and education, NRC, 1983-1989; editor: American Political Science Review, 1971-1977, Annual Review of Political Science, 1998-2005; home: Berkeley, California; died February 6, 2007)
  • LCN ; note: b. 1934 ; full name: Polsby Nelson Woolf

Wikipedia description:

Nelson Woolf Polsby (October 25, 1934 – February 6, 2007) was an American political scientist. He specialized in the study of the United States presidency, the United States Congress and how governmental policies and practices evolve. Polsby was the Heller Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the editor of the American Political Science Review from 1971 – 1977 and the founding editor of the Annual Review of Political Science from 1998 until his death in 2007.

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