George J. Graham, Jr.

George J. Graham, Jr. , was a political theorist who trained generations of political scientists at Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt University is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in Nashville, Tennessee, He taught at Vanderbilt for more than 40 years. He served as chair of the political science department from 1988-92, and served as an associate dean in the arts and sciences college from 1986-88, and from 1997-2000.

1 Life
2 Work
3 Fellowships
4 Further Reading

Life

George J. Graham, Jr. , was born in Dayton, Ohio. Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the County seat and largest city of Montgomery County. He received his B. A. from Wabash College in 1960 and his Ph. Wabash College is a small private liberal arts college for men, located in Crawfordsville Indiana. D. from Indiana University in 1965. Indiana University, founded in 1820, is a nine-campus University system in the state of Indiana. He was a member of the faculty of the political science faculty at Vanderbilt from 1963 until his death on November 30, 2006. Political science is a branch of Social sciences that deals with the theory and practice of Politics and the description and analysis of Political systems He taught courses in political theory, for undergraduates, and in political theory, philosophy of social science, and democratic theory for graduate students. Graduate students were always his focus. Graham was a central figure in the Vanderbilt graduate program for many years; by the late 1980s-early 1990s, he was arguably the closest faculty member to the graduate students. In that era, he was adviser, and/or friend, to a number of graduate students who went on to successful careers.

Work

Graham's academic production was hampered by his perfectionism and a number of chronic health problems. His writings address a number of important topics in the field of political science, including the place of political theory (and, more narrowly, conceptual analysis) in political science, the role of consensus in democratic theory and practice, and political rhetoric. Philosophical analysis is a general term for techniques typically used by philosophers in the analytic tradition that involve "breaking down" (i Consensus has two common meanings One is a general agreement among the members of a given group or Community, each of which exercises some discretion in At the time of his death, his unfinished works included books on consensus and on the political thought of founding father James Wilson. Founding Fathers are persons instrumental in the establishment of an Institution, usually a political institution especially those connected to the origination of its Ideals James Wilson ( September 14, 1742 August 21, 1798) was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, twice elected to the Continental

Graham was very active in the political science profession and played a role in the creation of the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association. The American Political Science Association ( APSA) is an organization dedicated to Political science. He was also a founding member of the Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis (COCTA), a research committee of the International Political Science Association. The International Political Science Association ( IPSA) (in French L'Association internationale de science politique (AISP) is an international organization dedicated

Graham co-edited two books: The Post-Behavioral Era: Perspectives on Political Science (1972, co-editor George W. Carey), and Founding Principles of American Government: Two Hundred Years of Democracy on Trial (1977, co-editor Scarlett G. Graham).

Fellowships

In 1995-96, he was awarded a Fulbright and spent the year as Distinguished John Marshall Chair at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences (now Corvinus University of Budapest), in Hungary. The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of grants for international educational exchange for scholars educators graduate John Marshall (September 24 1755 – July 6 1835 was an American statesman and jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power The Corvinus University of Budapest is a university located in Budapest, Hungary. Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic He was also a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. Throughout his career he was active in a number of National Endowment for the Humanities-funded programs, including conferences on narrative and Greek culture. The National Endowment for the Humanities ( NEH) is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

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Life

Work

Fellowships

Further Reading