|
Joseph LaPalombara (born May 18, 1925) is the Arnold Wolfers Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Management, and a Senior Research Scholar in the Center for Comparative Research at Yale University. He is best known for his contributions to the fields of comparative politics, comparative public administration, political development, Italian politics and the organization and behavior of international firms. He served as chair of Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies for five years, and as Chair of its Department of Political Science for two three-year terms. He is a member of the American and the Connecticut Academies of Arts and Sciences, and has held fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Guggenheim, Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, the Twentieth Century Fund, the Social Science Research Council and the Fulbright Program. He has been awarded the Medals of Honor by the Presidency of the Italian Republic and by the Italian Constitutional Court. He is a Knight-Commander in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. == Educational and academic life == The son of Italian immigrants, LaPalombara grew up on Chicago's west side in a neighborhood of row houses and patronage politics known for 150 years as "Little Italy". He dropped out of high school at age sixteen, and never graduated. While working in Chicago, he added to his high school preparation, which helped him, at the urging of teachers and friends, to enroll at the University of Illinois, which he did, on the basis of passing an entrance examination made available during wartime years. He graduated in 1947, having earned along the way membership in academic achievement societies, including, Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Beta Kappa. He was also named to the "Bronze Tablet", reserved by that university for students with the very highest honors as well as distinguished extracurricular activities. The latter reflected, among other activities, his presidency of the Student Senate and of his Senior Class. Postwar conditions made it possible for LaPalombara to join the political science faculty at Oregon State College (now University) where he served for three years, as an instructor and assistant professor. In 1950 LaPalombara enrolled in the doctoral program of the department of politics of Princeton University, where, four years later, he was awarded the Ph.D. degree. From there he moved on to Michigan State University, where he spent eleven years, five of them as chairman of that university's political science department. LaPalombara moved to Yale in 1964, where he remained until his formal retirement in 2001. Over this period, he chaired that University’s distinguished Department of Political Science for two separate terms, and then headed its Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He was one of the original groups of professors who taught in the Yale School of Management when that institution was created in the early 1970s, and returned to teach in it during the last several years before his retirement. Since his retirement, he has continued to teach an undergraduate seminar on "Global Firms and National Governments", drawing on both his academic background and specialization, as well as on his several decades’ experience as a consultant to American and European multinational corporations. In addition to his teaching in the U.S., LaPalombara has held visiting-professorial assignment at Columbia University, the University of California (Berkeley), the Italian Universities of Florence and of Bergamo, and the LUISS, the Free University of Rome and the John Cabot University (Rome). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph LaPalombara」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|