ALMOND, GABRIEL A(BRAHAM)

born Jan. 12, 1911, Rock Island, Ill., U.S. U.S. political scientist noted for his comparative studies of political systems and his analysis of political development. Almond received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1938 and taught at Brooklyn College from 1939 to 1946, except for service in the U.S. Office of War Information in 194245. After teaching at Yale University (194751 and 195963) and at Princeton University (195159), he became a professor of political science at Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., in 1963, heading the department there from 1964 to 1968. He was elected president of the American Political Science Association for 196566 and was its James Madison lecturer in 1981. Among Almond's publications are The Struggle for Democracy in Germany (1949; written with others and edited by Almond); The American People and Foreign Policy (1950); The Appeals of Communism (1954); The Politics of the Developing Areas (1960; written with others and edited by Almond), in which he presented a functional approach to the study of political systems; The Civic Culture (1963, with Sidney Verba), a cross-cultural study of citizen attitudes toward government in five societies; and Political Development (1970). He also wrote, with others, Comparative Politics: System, Process, Policy (1978), The Civic Culture Revisited (1980), and Progress and Its Discontents (1982).