# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ted-robert-gurr
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:39:21.088Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ted-robert-gurr"
name: "Ted Robert Gurr"
slug: "ted-robert-gurr"
description: "Ted Robert Gurr was an American author and professor of political science who most notably wrote about political conflict and instability. His widely translated book Why Men Rebel (1970) emphasized the importance of social psychological factors and ideology as root sources of political violence. He was Distinguished University Professor emeritus at the University of Maryland and consulted on projects he established there. He died in November 2017."
tagline: "American political scientist (1936–2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1936-02-21"
deathDate: "2017-11-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.02
  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ٹیڈ رابرٹ گر"
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    title: "Ted Robert Gurr"
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    title: "Ted Robert Gurr"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump