David easton biography

Canadian academic (–)

David EastonFRSC (June 24, – July 19, ) was a Canadian-born American political scientist.

From to , he served as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago.

At the forefront of both the behavioralist and post-behavioralist revolutions in the discipline of political science during the s and s, Easton provided the discipline's most widely used definition of politics as the authoritative allocation of values for the society.

What is political system according to david easton

He was renowned for his application of systems theory to the study of political science. Policy analysts have utilized his five-fold scheme for studying the policy-making process: input, conversion, output, feedback and environment.

Gunnell argues that since the s the concept of "system" was the most important theoretical concep