Charles Edward Merriam

Charles Edward Merriam (* 15. November 1874 in Hopkinton, Iowa; † 8. Januar 1953 in Rockville, Maryland) war ein Professor für Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Chicago und Mitbegründer des – streng individualistisch vorgehenden – behavioristischen Forschungsansatzes, auch Behavioralismus genannt. Er wird auch zur sogenannten Chicago School gerechnet.

Merriam war später auch Berater der amerikanischen Präsidenten Herbert Hoover und Franklin Roosevelt.

Weblinks

• Foto und Biografie auf den Seiten der Universität Chicago (englisch)
• Literatur von und über Charles Edward Merriam im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek

wichtige Veröffentlichungen

• History of the Theory of Sovereignty since Rousseau, (Columbia University Press, 1900).
• A History of American Political Theories, (Macmillan, 1903).
• American Political Ideas: Studies in the Development of American Political Thought, 1865-1917, (Macmillan, 1920).
• The American Party System: An Introduction to the Study of Political Parties in the United States, (Macmillan, 1922).
• New Aspects of Politics, (University of Chicago Press, 1925).
• Four American Party Leaders: Henry Ward Beecher Foundation Lectures, (Macmillan, 1926).
• Chicago: A More Intimate View of Urban Politics, (Macmillan, 1929).
• The Making of Citizens: A Comparative Study of Methods of Civic Training, (University of Chicago Press, 1931).
• The Written Constitution and the Unwritten Attitude, (Richard R. Smith, 1931).
• Civic Education in the United States, (C. Scribner's sons, 1934).
• Political Power: Its Composition & Incidence, (Whittlesey House, 1934).
• The Role of Politics in Social Change, (New York University Press, 1936).
• Prologue to Politics, (University of Chicago Press, 1939).
• The New Democracy and the New Despotism, (Whittlesey House, 1939).
• On the Agenda of Democracy, (Harvard University Press, 1941).
• Public & Private Government, (Yale University Press, 1944).
• Systematic Politics, (University of Chicago Press, 1945).
• Non-Voting: Causes and Methods of Control, with H. F. Gosnell, (University of Chicago Press, 1924).
• Primary Elections, with Louise Overacker, (University of Chicago Press, 1928).
• The American Government: Democracy in Action, with Robert E. Merriam, (Ginn and Company, 1954).
• A History of Political Theories, Recent Times: Essays on Contemporary Developments in Political Theory, co-edited with Harry Elmer Barnes, (Macmillan, 1924).

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