Walter Dean Burnham
Walter Dean Burnham | |
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Born | San Antonio, Texas, U.S. | June 15, 1930
Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University |
Walter Dean Burnham (June 15, 1930 – October 4, 2022) was an American political scientist who was an expert on elections and voting patterns. He was known for his
Career
Burnham was born in 1930 in
Burnham was a specialist in election returns, and the sources of data for the ICPSR. He interpreted data in terms of statistical patterns and trends. He was primarily involved in American election data from 1824 to 1960.[3] He died at the age of 92 in 2022.[4]
The Alabama U.S. Senate race of 1962
In 1964, Burnham published an article on the 1962 U.S. Senate election in
Critical Elections
Burnham's 1970 book Critical Elections and the Mainsprings of American Politics presented a theory of American political development that focused on the role of party systems that endure for several decades, only to be disrupted by a
Major publications
- Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892 (1955) annotated compilation of county election results
- "Political immunization and political confessionalism: the United States and Weimar Germany." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 3.1 (1972): 1-30 online.
- "Theory and voting research: some reflections on Converse's “Change in the American Electorate”." American Political Science Review 68.3 (1974): 1002-1023.
- "The Changing Shape of the American Political Universe" American Political Science Review 59.1 (1965): 7-28. in JSTOR
- The American party systems: Stages of political development edited by William Nisbet Chambers and Burnham (1975)
- "American politics in the 1970s: Beyond party." in The American Party Systems (1975) pp: 308-357.
- "Insulation and responsiveness in congressional elections." Political Science Quarterly 90.3 (1975): 411-435.
- Critical Elections and the Mainsprings of American Politics (1970) (summary)
- Politics/America: The Cutting Edge of Change (1972)
- The Current Crisis in American Politics (1982)
- The Evolution of American Electoral Systems (Contributions in American History) with Paul Kleppner, et al. (1981)
- with Richard Rose. "The appearance and disappearance of the American voter." in The political economy (1984) pp: 112-39.
- Democracy in the Making: American Government and Politics (1986), textbook
- "Constitutional Moments and Punctuated Equilibria" Yale Law Journal 108.8 (June 1999) 2237-2277.
- Voting in American Elections with Thomas Ferguson and Louis Ferleger (2009)
Video by Burnham
- Burnham, Walter Dean. "Critical Realignments Revisited." April 5, 2006 video recording of Burnham retrospective on critical realignments
References
- ISBN 0313278490.
- ^ Charles Lockhartand Glenn H. Utter, eds. American Political Scientists: A Dictionary (2nd ed. 2002) pp 52-54.
- ^ Jensen, 1986.
- ^ Walter Dean Burnham's obituary
- ^ Walter Dean Burnham, "The Alabama Senatorial Election of 1962: Return of Inter-Party Competition", Journal of Politics 26 (November 1964), pp. 811-815; 827-829; Bernard Cosman, Five States for Goldwater (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1966), pp. 60-63
- ^ Beck (1986)
Further reading
- Beck, Paul Allen. "Micropolitics in Macro Perspective: the Political History of Walter Dean Burnham." Social Science History 1986 10(3): 221-245. in JSTOR
- Jensen, Richard. "The Changing Shape of Burnham's Political Universe," Social Science History 10 (1986) 209-19 in JSTOR
- Roberts, Sam. "Walter Dean Burnham, Who Traced Political Parties’ Shifts, Dies at 92: A noted political scientist, he saw parties periodically realigning themselves in stark fashion, presaging the rise of Donald Trump" The New York Times October 13, 2022
- Velasco, Jesús. "Walter Dean Burnham: An American Clockmaker." Norteamérica 12.2 (2017): 215-249. online