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- Austin Ranney (* 23. September 1920 in Courtland, New York; † 24. Juli 2006 in Berkeley) war ein US-amerikanischer Politikwissenschaftler, der als Professor an der University of California, Berkeley lehrte und 1974/75 als Präsident der American Political Science Association (APSA) amtierte. Ranney machte seinen Master-Abschluss University of Oregon und wurde 1948 an der Yale University zum Ph.D. promoviert. Schon ab 1946 war er Dozent an der University of Illinois und wurde dort 1959 Professor für Politikwissenschaft. 1962 hielt er sich zu Forschungszwecken im Vereinigten Königreich auf, Ergebnis war sein Hauptwerk Pathways to Parliament. Candidate selection in Britain (1965). Anschließend lehrte er von 1963 bis 1976 als Professor an der University of Wisconsin–Madison. Von 1976 bis 1986 war er für den Think Tank American Enterprise Institute tätig. Danach war er Professor in Berkeley, bis er 1991 in Ruhestand ging. 1969 wurde Ranney in die American Academy of Arts and Sciences gewählt. (de)
- J. Austin Ranney (September 23, 1920 – July 24, 2006) was an American political scientist and expert on political parties in the United States. Ranney earned his bachelor's degree at Northwestern University, his master's degree at the University of Oregon, and his Ph.D. at Yale University. He taught for many years at the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, before coming to the University of California, Berkeley in 1986, where he stayed through the remainder of his career. According to political journalist Theodore H. White, it was Ranney who, in a Nov. 18, 1969, hearing designed to reform the delegate selection process of the Democratic Party, "set... in motion" the idea of quota set-asides, though Ranney "consistently ever since...has expressed his abhorrence of quotas." White attributes the quota system eventually adopted by the McGovern–Fraser Commission as "one of the major factors in the wrecking" of the campaign of George McGovern as the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate and the landslide re-election of Richard Nixon. He served as president of the American Political Science Association in 1974–1975, and also served as managing editor of the American Political Science Review. He was a Guggenheim fellow (in 1974), and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (1976–1985). He was politically a Democrat. Ranney was a longtime affiliate of political science honors society Pi Sigma Alpha. He was president of the society from 1976 to 1978, and also served on the executive council for the ten years prior. He was inducted into Pi Sigma Alpha as a college student. He created the Ranney Index, and is also noted for his work on preselection in British parliamentary elections (1965). His influences included Elmer Eric Schattschneider and Angus Campbell, while his Ph.D. students include Douglas W. Rae. (en)
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- Austin Ranney (* 23. September 1920 in Courtland, New York; † 24. Juli 2006 in Berkeley) war ein US-amerikanischer Politikwissenschaftler, der als Professor an der University of California, Berkeley lehrte und 1974/75 als Präsident der American Political Science Association (APSA) amtierte. 1969 wurde Ranney in die American Academy of Arts and Sciences gewählt. (de)
- J. Austin Ranney (September 23, 1920 – July 24, 2006) was an American political scientist and expert on political parties in the United States. Ranney earned his bachelor's degree at Northwestern University, his master's degree at the University of Oregon, and his Ph.D. at Yale University. He taught for many years at the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, before coming to the University of California, Berkeley in 1986, where he stayed through the remainder of his career. (en)
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