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Valdimer Orlando Key, Jr. (March 13, 1908 – October 4, 1963), usually known simply as V. O. Key, was an influential American political scientist known for his empirical study of elections and voting behavior.〔 ==Biography== V.O. Key was born in Austin, Texas. At about age 15, his father, a lawyer and land owner, sent him to McMurry College for his last two years of high school and first year of college. He transferred to the University of Texas at Austin (B.A., 1929; M.A., 1930), and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1934. His completed his dissertation, "The Techniques of Political Graft in the United States" (1934) under Charles E. Merriam's direction.〔 From 1936 to 1938, he served with the Social Science Research Council and the National Resources Planning Board.〔 He taught at UCLA, Johns Hopkins University (1938–49), and Yale University (1949–51) before starting his last professorship at Harvard University in 1951.〔 During World War II, he worked with his mentor Harold Foote Gosnell at the Bureau of the Budget. In 1942 Key published the first edition of his textbook, ''Politics, Parties, and Pressure Groups'', in which he emphasized that politics was a contest and the main players were organized interest groups. The book decisively shaped the teaching of political science by introducing realism in analysis of politics, introducing the "interest group" model, and introducing behavioral methods based on statistical analysis of election returns. It went through three editions but was not revised after his death. His ''Southern Politics in State and Nation'' (1949) was a microscopic examination, state by state, of Southern politics using interviews and statistics. The book is considered one of the most influential books on the subject. Furthermore, the book is the cornerstone of a prominent college seminar taught by the University of Notre Dame's political science department. In ''Public Opinion and American Democracy'' (1961) he analyzed the link between the changing patterns of public opinion and the governmental system. He opposed the Michigan model that argued voters' preferences were determined by psychological factors, thereby, in his view, taking most of the politics out of political science. In his posthumous work, ''The Responsible Electorate: Rationality in Presidential Voting 1936–60'' (1966), he analyzed public opinion data and electoral returns to show what he believed to be the rationality of voters' choices as political decisions rather than responses to psychological stimuli. Key also refuted the hypothesis that "Southern backwardness" could be attributed to poor whites. Rather, he asserted that a rich oligarch of "Southern Bourbons" manipulated working class whites, and unified Southern voters to preserve the economic and social order of the time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 year = 1995 )〕 Other works by Key include ''The Techniques of Political Graft in the United States'' (1936), ''A Primer of Statistics for Political Scientists'' (1954), and ''American State Politics: An Introduction'' (1956). He pioneered the study of critical elections and served as president of the American Political Science Association in 1958–59. In October 1961, President John Kennedy appointed him to the President's Commission on Campaign Costs, which reported in 1962.〔 Key married Cora Luella Gettys Key on October 27, 1934. Born in Nebraska on October 17, 1898, she attended the University of Nebraska and earned a Master's degree from its Department of Political and Social Sciences in 1921. After continuing her education at Bryn Mawr College, she received a Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Illinois, where she was a Carnegie Fellow in International Law, in 1925; her dissertation examined ''The Effect of Changes of Sovereignty on Nationality''. She then worked at the University of Chicago in the Political Science Department, where she met her future husband, then a graduate student. After their marriage and continuing into the 1950s, Luella Key (she did not use her first name) worked at the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. Her publications include ''The Reorganization of State Government in Nebraska'' (NE Legislative Reference Bureau, 1922), ''The Effect of Changes of Sovereignty on Nationality'' (Urbana, IL, 1926) (based on her dissertation), ''The Law of Citizenship in the United States'' (University of Chicago Press, 1934), and ''The Administration of Canadian Conditional Grants'' (Public Administration Service, 1938). Luella Key died in June 1975. Some of her papers are preserved in the Archives & Special Collections at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Library, and in the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University. Key died at Beth Israel Hospital in Brookline, Massachusetts. 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「V. O. Key, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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