Milbrath, Lester W

LC control no.	n 50043210
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Milbrath, Lester W. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1925-10-29
Death date	2007-12-26
Place of birth	Bertha, Minn.
Field of activity	Political science Environmental studies
Affiliation	University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Brookings Institution Duke University Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) State University of New York at Buffalo. Department of Political Science
Profession or occupation	Professor
Found in	His The Washington lobbyists, 1963. Environmentalists: vanguard for a new society, 1984: CIP t.p. (Lester W. Milbrath) CIP data sheet (b. 10/29/25) University of Buffalo Department of Political Science, via WWW, March 6, 2013 (Lester W. Milbrath; born in Bertha, Minnesota in 1925; died December 26, 2007; received his BA and MA degrees from the University of Minnesota, and his Ph. D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1956; he held a research fellowship at the Brookings Institution in 1956-1957; he then taught at Duke, Northwestern University, and the University at Buffalo, where he spent most of his career; while at Northwestern University, Professor Milbrath published his seminal work, "The Washington Lobbyists," in 1963; in 1965 he published "Political Participation: How and Why do People Get Involved in Politics;" he joined the department of political science at Buffalo in 1966; he also held a joint appointment in the department of sociology beginning in 1987; by then he had already established himself has an important scholar in political behavior; he taught courses on political psychology, political attitudes and behavior, and research methodology; the topic of environmental beliefs and values, as well as environmental policymaking, was a research focus for Professor Milbrath throughout the remainder of his career; he published "Environmentalists: Vanguard for a New Society" in 1984 and " Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our Way Out?" in 1989; he retired from teaching at Buffalo in 1991, but continued to write and to testify in a variety of public settings on environmental matters; he published "Learning to Think Environmentally: While There is Still Time" in 1996) Contemporary Authors, via WWW, March 6, 2013 (Lester W(alter) Milbrath; born October 29, 1925 in Bertha, Minn.; son of Walter R. Milbrath and Lila Fischer; University of Minnesota, B.A., 1951, M.A., 1952; University of North Carolina, Ph. D., 1956; Instructor and research associate at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1952-1953, at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1953-1956, and at Duke University, Durham, N.C., 1957-1958; Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., postdoctoral research fellow, 1956-1957; Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., 1958-1966, began as assistant professor, became associate professor of political science; State University of New York at Buffalo, 1966--, professor of political science and associate provost, 1970-76, director of Environmental Studies Center, 1976-; throughout the 1950s and 1960s, nearly all his research and writing focused on political science, particularly political behavior; in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he became interested in environmental studies and switched his career emphasis to research and writing on the environment)