- Samuel J. Eldersveld
Samuel J. Eldersveld (1917- ) is a U.S. academic, political scientist, and Democratic politician. He served as
Mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1957 to 1959.Eldersveld has had a long and distinguished career as a political scientist and professor. He spent most of his career as professor of
political science at theUniversity of Michigan , and is now professor emeritus at that institution. TheAmerican Political Science Association recognized Eldersveld's achievements in 1986 by creating the annual Samuel J. Eldersveld Award, meant "to honor a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field," and by naming Eldersveld the first year's winner.Eldersveld was elected mayor of
Ann Arbor, Michigan as a Democrat in 1957. He ran against the incumbent Republican mayorWilliam E. Brown, Jr. and independent candidateDominick A. DeVarti , who had lost the 1957 Republican primary to Brown. Mayor William E. Brown, Jr., had served an unprecedented twelve consecutive years in office, and Eldersveld successfully quashed Brown's bid for a seventh term in the mayor's post. Eldersveld served one two-year term as mayor, but decided not to run for reelection in 1959.elected book publications
* Eldersveld, Samuel J., and James K. Pollock. "Michigan Politics in Transition: An Areal Study of Voting Trends in the Last Decade." Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1942.
* _____, and Amry Vandenbosch. "Government of the Netherlands." Lexington: Bureau of Govt. Research, Univ. of Kentucky, 1947.
* _____ and Albert A. Applegate. "Michigan's Recounts for Governor, 1950 and 1952: A Systematic Analysis of Election Error." Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1954.
* _____. "Political Affiliation in Metropolitan Detroit." Ann Arbor: Institute of Public Administration, University of Michigan, 1957.
* _____. "Political Parties: A Behavioral Analysis." Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964.
* _____, V. Jagannadham, and A. P. Barnabas. "The Citizen and the Administrator in a Developing Democracy." Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1968.
* _____ and Bashiruddin Ahmed. "Citizens and Politics: Mass Political Behavior in India." Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
* _____, Jan Kooiman, and Theo van der Tak. "Bestuur en Beleid: Politiek en Bestuur in de Ogen van Kamerleden en Hoge Ambtenaren." Assen: Van Gorcum, 1980.
* _____, Jan Kooiman, and Theo van der Tak. "Elite Images of Dutch Politics: Accommodation and Conflict." Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981.
* _____. "Political Elites in Modern Societies: Empirical Research and Democratic Theory." Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989.
* _____, Lars Strömberg, and Wim Derksen. "Local Elites in Western Democracies: A Comparative Analysis of Urban Political Leaders in the U.S., Sweden, and the Netherlands." Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.
* _____. "Party Conflict and Community Development: Postwar Politics in Ann Arbor." Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
* _____. "Political Parties in American Society." New York: Basic Books, 1982. Second edition, with Hanes Walton, Jr., Boston: St. Martin's, 2000.
* _____ and Mingming Shen. "Support for Economic and Political Change in the China Countryside: An Empirical Study of Cadres and Villagers in Four Counties, 1990 and 1996." Lanham, Md.: Lexington, 2001.External links
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/annarbor.html Mayors of Ann Arbor page] at "PoliticalGraveyard.com"
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