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Christian Bay (1921 – May 8, 1990) was a Canadian political theorist and the chairman of the political science department at the University of Alberta in Canada. He formed the ideological basis for the Caucus for a New Political Science of the APSA and an important critique of Behavioral Politics. He is associated with Normative Political Science and the New institutionalism approach of politics.
Bay was born in Oslo and received his Ph.D. at the University of Oslo in 1959, with his book The Structure of Freedom serving as his doctoral dissertation. This work was a psychological study of the quest for freedom and later that year earned him the Woodrow Wilson Foundation's 1959 book award.
Bay went on to teach in the United States at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley before becoming chairman of the political science department at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in 1966. He joined the University of Toronto faculty in 1972 and retired in 1988. He died on May 8, 1990, of pneumonia at Toronto Western Hospital.
References
- "Archived copy" (PDF). isistatic.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - Bay, Christian (1959). The Structure of Freedom. Stanford University Press – via Internet Archive.
- "Christian Bay, 69, A Political Scientist Who Studied Peace". The New York Times. 1990-05-10. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
- Berns, Walter (1961). "The Behavioral Sciences and the Study of Political Things: The Case of Christian Bay's The Structure of Freedom". The American Political Science Review. 55 (3): 550–559. doi:10.2307/1952683. ISSN 0003-0554.
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- Christian Bay archival papers held at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services
- Works by or about Christian Bay at the Internet Archive
- 1921 births
- 1990 deaths
- Canadian political scientists
- Norwegian political scientists
- Norwegian emigrants to Canada
- Academic staff of the University of Alberta
- University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
- University of Oslo alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Toronto
- Norwegian expatriates in the United States
- 20th-century Canadian political scientists
- Naturalized citizens of Canada
- Stanford University Department of Political Science faculty