# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dankwart-rustow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:25:04.780Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dankwart-rustow"
name: "Dankwart Rustow"
slug: "dankwart-rustow"
description: "Dankwart Alexander Rustow was a professor of political science and sociology specializing in comparative politics. He is prominent for his research on democratization. In his seminal 1970 article 'Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model,' Rustow broke from the prevailing schools of thought on how countries became democratic. Disagreeing with the heavy focus on necessary social and economic pre-conditions for democracy, he argued that national unity was the necessary precondition for democracy."
tagline: "American political scientist (1924–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RustowDankwart01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1924-12-21"
deathDate: "1996-08-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.32
  momentum:             8.302063789868667
  historical:           3.072930666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  48
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "دانكوارت روستو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dankwart_R%C3%BCstow"
    title: "Dankwart Rüstow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dankwart_Rustow"
    title: "Dankwart Rustow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102812"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations