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Nov 17, 1928 Concord, New Hampshire, United States Died on 30 Dec 2014 (aged 86)
American political scientist
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About Philip Converse
- Philip Ernest Converse (November 17, 1928 – December 30, 2014) was an American political scientist.
- He was a professor emeritus in political science and sociology at the University of Michigan (PhD 1958) who was a seminal figure in the field of public opinion, survey research, and quantitative social science.
- He has been described as "one of the most important social scientists of the 20th century.”Converse's widely-cited book chapter "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics" (Ideology and Discontent, edited by David E.
- Apter, 1964) held that most people lack structure and stability in their political views.
- With Angus Campbell, Warren Miller, and Donald Stokes, he co-wrote The American Voter, an instrumental work of political science using data from the American National Election Studies, a set of important surveys of American public opinion carried out by the University of Michigan Survey Research Center and the Center for Political Studies.
- He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1969.Philip Converse was the younger brother of Connie Converse, one of the earliest-known practitioners of the singer-songwriter genre of popular music.
- Philip died of lung disease on December 30, 2014, aged 86.
