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Biography of Vladimir Orlando Key, Jr.
Name: Vladimir Orlando Key, Jr.
Birth Date: March 13, 1908
Death Date: October 4, 1963
Place of Birth: Austin, Texas, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: political scientist, author
Vladimir Orlando Key, Jr.
The American political scientist Vladimir Orlando Key, Jr. (1908-1963), played an extremely influential role in the development of the now predominant behavioral, or empirical, approach to the study of politics.After spending his early life in Texas and receiving much of his education there, Key attended McMurray College in Abilene for 2 years and then the University of Texas, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in 1929 and a master of arts degree in 1930. He went to the University of Chicago for his doctoral work. There he came under the influence of Charles E. Merriam, the leading figure in the "Chicago school" of political science. The intention of the Chicago school was to explore and develop new methods of studying political and administrative behavior. It pioneered in the use of statistics, the use of filed methods, the study of the role of psychology in politics, and especially the realistic approach that …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…a massive study on American political culture, in which he attempted to explore the patterns and distribution of opinions, the ways in which they are formed, and the links between mass opinions and the operations of the structural machinery of government.Although his health had become much worse, Key continued working to the very end. His last work was The Responsible Electorate, published posthumously with the assistance of his former student Milton Cummings, Jr., in 1966. This work challenged the conclusions of many leading works on the study of voting behavior by arguing that there was a greater degree of rationality involved in voting than had been commonly inferred. Further Reading No biographical work on Key exists. Useful background works for the problems with which he was concerned are David Easton, The Political System: An Inquiry into the State of Political Science (1953), and William T. Bluhm, Theories of the Political System (1965).
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