Philip Converse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Philip Converse

American political scientist

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1928

Place of Birth: Concord, New Hampshire, United States

Date of Death: 30-Dec-2014

Profession: political scientist, university teacher, sociologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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.