Home > Social Sciences and the Law > Political Science and Government > Political Science: Biographies

Research topic: Graham Wallas

Graham Wallas. Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

Related pictures

Rate these pictures

Graham Wallas

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Graham Wallas , 1858-1932, English political scientist and psychologist. He joined (1886) the Fabian Society and was the author of one of the Fabian Essays. In 1914, Wallas became professor of political science at the Univ. of London. In his lectures and writings he studied the psychological factors in politics and advocated government by specially trained persons. Wallas wrote a biography of Francis Place (1898), Human Nature in Politics (1908), The Great Society (1914), Our Social Heritage (1921), and The Art of Thought (1926). Bibliography: See study by M. J. Wiener... Read more

Graham Wallas
Graham Wallas Graham Wallas (1858-1932) was a British sociologist, political scientist, antirationalist...approach to the study of politics. The son of a Sunderland clergyman, Graham Wallas endured a strict puritanical upbringing, and it was not without... Read more

problem-solving stages
...in the process of problem solving . According to the most influential scheme, proposed by the English psychologist Graham Wallas (1858–1932) in his book The Art of Thought (1921), the stages are preparation, incubation , illumination or... Read more

Rate these entries | See all related entries

Facts and information from other sites

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

	Anniversaries ; ...film director, 1918; Philip Arthur Larkin, poet, 1922. Deaths: Captain Frederick Marryat, novelist, 1848; Professor Graham Wallas, economist, 1932; Herman Hesse, poet and novelist, 1962; Joe Orton (John Kingsley Orton), playwright, 1967; Dmitri... Read more
	Held, David: Models of Democracy, 3rd edition.(Book review) ; ...CA: Stanford University Press 400 pp., $24.95 paper, ISBN 0-8047-5472-1 Publication Date: August 2006 David Held, Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science, presents a probing overview... Read more
	What if We Don't Party? Political Partisanship in Taiwan and Korea in the 1990s. ; ...loved and trusted before: and party is such a thing. Graham Wallas, Human Nature in Politics 1910 1. Introduction Political...research agenda of psephologists at least as early as Wallas' adage at the beginning of this century. In particular... Read more
	Fabian fables. (100th anniversary of "Essays in Fabian Socialism," political tome) (Britain) ; ...George Bernard Shaw, were written by (among others) Sidney Webb (who drafted the Labour Party's 1918 constitution), Graham Wallas (who invented the phrase the great society , subsequently put to good use by Lyndon Johnson) and Annie Besant (who... Read more
	[ PHOTO: MARYLAND GROWTH TALK ] ; ...a.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays, Kiwanis-Wallas Recreation Center, 10481 Frederick Rd., Ellicott City. Free...home or aging parents who need care; social worker Christiane Graham, former director of the Winter Growth Adult Day Treatment Center... Read more
	Selling socialism: marketing the early Labour Party: party strategists are no new phenomenon, Dominic Wring says; the Labour Party has always been concerned with marketing its brand image. ; ...member and London School of Economics professor Graham Wallas. In Human Nature in Polities (1908) Wallas applied psychology to the study of democracy...as many and as strong emotions as possible'. Wallas's sentiments resonated with a number of Labour... Read more
	Howard Rec Cal ; ...companions ages 7 and older, 10 a.m.-noon Dec. 11, create a gingerbread house using graham crackers and candies, includes refreshments and tea, program held at the Kiwanis-Wallas Recreation Center, 10481 Frederick Rd., Ellicott City. Adult and child pair... Read more
	World Updates.(International) ; ...2002, to $62.2 billion. Pewter tapped to head Catlin subsidiary Graham Pewter has been appointed president and chief executive of Catlin...management buyout and has rebranded as Glencairn Ltd. Andrew Wallas, chairman of Glencairn, said the broker will seek to increase... Read more
	The Lib Dem leader must keep his counsel ; ...friend the "image" all over again (a term first used, as far as I have been able to establish, by the Fabian Socialist Graham Wallas in 1908). In this groundswell of scorn, I refused to join. After all, there were 63 Liberal Democrat MPs, four more... Read more
	Leisure pursuits. (how scientists relax) (Column) ; ...a frivolous and dilatory act was actually a vital component of creation. In 1926 the political and social scientist Graham Wallas delineated the four stages of creative thought: preparation, or the accumulation of the background knowledge to solve... Read more

For more facts and information, see all related premium articles

Online videos

Robert Walls interview - Part 1

Add/Rate Videos

Free newspaper and magazine articles

	The Politics of Human Nature.
	Moses reappraised.(Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York)(Book review)
	Creative thinking: opening up a world of thought.(RESEARCH REPORT)(Report)

For Students and teachers!

HighBeam Encyclopedia provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including:

Search hundreds of published sources: