David E. Apter
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Yale University
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Henry J. Heinz II Professor Emeritus of Comparative Political and Social Development
David E. Apter is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has had research grants from the Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. He has been awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award by the American Political Science Association, and has been Halevy Professer at the Fondation des sciences pollitiques, in Paris, and a Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, All Souls College, Oxford, Center for Advanced Study, Princeton, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and a Fulbright Lecturer. Recent publications include The Legitimization of Violence (Macmillan Press, 1997), Political Protest and Social Change (Macmillan Press, 1996), “The New Europe and the Politics of Exclusion” (Gulbenkian Foundation, 1998), “Structure, Contingency and Choice” in D. Keates and J. Scott, (eds.) Schools of Thought: Twenty Five Years of Interpretive Social Science (Princeton University Press, 2001), and “An African Tragedy,” published in Dissent (Spring 2002).
Selected Publications
Books
- Apter, David E. (ed.) (1997). The Legitimization of Violence. New York: New York University Press.
- Apter, David E. (1996). The Political Kingdom in Uganda: A Study in Bureaucratic Nationalism. Portland, OR: Frank Cass.
- Apter, David E. (with Charles F. Andrain) (1996). Political Protest and Social Change: Analyzing Politics. New York: New York University Press.
- Apter, David E. (with Tony Saich) (1994). Revolutionary Discourse in Mao’s Republic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Apter, David E. (with Nagayo Sawa) (1984). Against the State: Politics and Social Protest in Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Articles & Chapters
- Apter, David E. (2002). “Globalization and Its Discontents: An African Tragedy,” Dissent, 52.
- Apter, David E. (2001). “Structure, Contingency and Choice: A Comparison of Trends and Tendencies in Political Science” pp. 252-281 in D. Keates and J. W. Scott, (eds.) Schools of Thought: Twenty Five Years of Interpretive Social Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.