Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Harry received a scholarship from Harvard University, where in 1948 he got a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts in 1950 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1953.
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Harry received a scholarship from Harvard University, where in 1948 he got a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts in 1950 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1953.
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Harry was born on January 26, 1924, in Schotten, Germany. Eckstein belonged in 1936 at the age of twelve to a group of 500 children and adolescents who were admitted by US authorities on the basis of intelligence immigration tests. Apart from his sister Lisa, who later succeeded in emigrating to the United States, his family was killed in National Socialist concentration camps.
Eckstein spent his youth in Columbus, Ohio.
Harry received a scholarship from Harvard University, where in 1948 he got a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts in 1950 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1953.
During the Second World War, Harry H. Eckstein had interrupted his studies and served as a soldier. He was hired by Harvard University in 1954. After serving on Harvard’s political science faculty for four years, he moved to Princeton. From 1969 to 1980 Eckstein was Professor of International Studies at Princeton University.
Eckstein was considered influential for his theory that political culture plays a large role in the success of democracy and in 1980 he was hired at the University of California at Irvine. He was a Distinguished Research Professor in the political science department there. In 1981/82 he was vice president of the American Political Science Association.
Eckstein’s area of expertise was democratic stability and he wrote several books about government and politics, including Patterns of Government, Pressure Group Politics, and Division and Cohesion in Democracy.
He died of heart failure, June 22, 1999, in Newport Beach.
Harry Eckstein was one of the most prominent, influential and respected social scientists in the twentieth century and his research set high standards for the field of comparative politics and the social sciences in general. He was also the editor of World Politics and a founding member of the editorial board of Comparative Political Studies. He will be remembered for his work on authority patterns, congruence theory, interest groups, and democratization. His ''A perspective on comparative politics: past and present'' remains unsurpassed in its comparative scope, historical depth, and theoretical insight.
Harry argued that a critically important role in determining whether democracy succeeded in a country was played by the country's political culture, or what he called its authority patterns.
Harry H. Eckstein was the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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And Gabriel A. Almond, a political scientist who taught at Stanford University, wrote in 1998 that Professor Eckstein had ''won a lasting place in the systematic literature on the properties and conditions of democratic stability''
His first four marriages ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife, the former Marlene Hamilton, whom he married in 1995; a son, Jonathan Eckstein of Princeton; a stepson, Eric Sterling Ament of Ruidoso, and two grandchildren.
