Samuel p huntington biography california

Samuel Phillips Huntington (1927–2008) was the Albert J. Weatherhead Professor in the Harvard Department of Government and one of the twentieth century’s most influential and controversial political scientists.

The bulk of Huntington’s career was spent teaching and writing at Harvard, interspersed with forays into national, state and local politics.

Huntington wrote or edited seventeen books and produced close to one hundred scholarly articles.

He is among the most frequently-cited social scientists of the past century and made significant contributions in the fields of civil-military relations, modernization and democratization theory, American political thought, and international relations.

Huntington frequently declared that he and the Harvard Center for International Affairs where he worked were devoted to “policy-relevant basic research.” His work was never value-neutral, and he professed himself an intellectual follower of the Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.

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