IN MEMORIAM.(Brief Article)

PS: Political Science & Politics, March, 2000

Edward C. Banfield

Edward C. Banfield, the George D. Markham Professor of Government Emeritus at Harvard University, died September 30, 1999. He was 82.

A 1938 graduate of Connecticut State College at Storrs (now the University of Connecticut), Banfield worked as a journalist and an analyst for the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Farm Security Administration before returning to school in 1947. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1952. He moved to Harvard in 1959 and, with the exception of a four-year appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, stayed in Cambridge until his death.

He published 16 books and dozens of articles on urban politics, urban planning, and civic culture, many of which advanced controversial theories...

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