# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-c-banfield
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:57:01.482Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-c-banfield"
name: "Edward C. Banfield"
slug: "edward-c-banfield"
description: "Edward Christie Banfield was an American political scientist, best known as the author of The Moral Basis of a Backward Society (1958), and The Unheavenly City (1970). His work was foundational to the advent of the policing tactic of broken windows theory, which was first advocated by his mentee James Q. Wilson in an Atlantic Monthly article entitled \"Broken Windows\"."
tagline: "American political scientist (1916–1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward_c_banfield_photo_of_chiaromonte_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1916-11-19"
deathDate: "1999-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.3
  momentum:             1.500765696784073
  historical:           4.827036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "إدوارد س. بانفيلد"
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    title: "Edward C. Banfield"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_C._Banfield"
    title: "Edward C. Banfield"
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    title: "Бэнфилд, Эдвард"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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