Sociólogo norte-americano. Doutorado em 1955 pela Columbia University. Trabalha com Paul Lazarsfeld. Professor de sociologia em Chicago entre 1956 e 1959 e na John Hopkins University, de 1959 a 1973, regressando depois a Chicago

· Union Democracy 1956. Com Seymour Martin Lipset.

· The Politics of Developing Areas Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1960. Com Gabriel Almond.

· Education and Political Development Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1965.

· Resources for Social Change 1971.

· Power and Structure of Society 1973.

· Asymmetric Society 1982.

· Foundations of Social Theory 1990.

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