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Michael Haas was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1938, where he attended Stellwagen Elementary School and Jackson Intermediate. Adopted at birth, his adoptive mother had been an elementary schoolteacher, and his adoptive father was a journalist who earlier had been threatened by the Ku Klux Klan because he wrote an editorial condemning their terrorist acts against Mexican Americans in Orange County, California. (His adoptive mother’s sister had married a Californio, that is, a descendent of a pre-statehood Californian whose Spanish ancestry predated Mexico’s independence from Spain.) While in Detroit, Michael Haas observed one of the effects of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “hire now, train later” affirmative action during World War II, namely, blacks hired anew in the cafeteria of the General Motors Building in downtown Detroit, across the street from the Fisher Building, where his father worked at radio station WJR. ==Life in Los Angeles== In 1950, he moved with his adoptive parents to Los Angeles, where his father became program director of radio station KMPC. He attended Le Conte Middle School and graduated from Hollywood High School in 1956. The 1950s were the dark days in which perceived left-wing members of the film industry were blacklisted, and several of his classmates were directly affected because their parents were fired or investigated. As a result, he joined the American Civil Liberties Union in college. In 1986, to give some recognition to directors who bravely raise political consciousness through outstanding feature films, he founded the Political Film Society (www.polfilms.com), which reviews political films and gives awards to directors each year. Later, he produced and directed a program that reviewed films for KCLA, an FM and Internet radio station. Professional Career Haas received his baccalaureate degree at Stanford University in 1959, the year after Soviet nuclear bomb tests produced radioactive rain that caused agricultural crops in Northern California to be deemed unsafe. Yale University awarded him a master's degree in 1960—but not before he attended a debate on nuclear weapons testing between William F. Buckley and Norman Thomas and joined pickets outside a New Haven store, a branch of which was not allowing blacks to sit at a lunch counter with whites in Greensboro, North Carolina. He received his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1964. Under the direction of his thesis adviser, Robert C. North, his Ph.D. dissertation, ''Some Societal Correlates of International Political Behavior'', was among the very first in political science to use a computer to calculate correlations. His doctoral thesis, which developed a “mass society” theory that aggressive warfare occurs in societies wherein there is a breakdown of civil society, is still applicable today. ''International Conflict'' (1974) was a major multivariate quantitative effort that went beyond his dissertation by finding correlates of decision-making conditions, societal asymmetries, and global structures with the probability of war. 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「Michael Haas (political scientist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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