93,772 profiles ranked live

Ted Robert Gurr

✓ Source-basedfalling

American political scientist (1936-2017)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1936 to 2017 · aged 81
Compare
Fame41.0
MomentumNot measured
Languages8
In century#138,510

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.

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Also inDeutsch

Awards 1

Guggenheim Fellowship

Academics from United States 6

About this person

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.

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1936 to 2017 · aged 81
Wikipedia
8 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.