Lester W. Milbrath

Lester W. Milbrath (born 1925 in Bertha, Minnesota , † December 26, 2007 in Amherst ) was an American sociologist and political scientist .

Having Bachelor and Master at the University of Minnesota had acquired Milbrath was at the University of North Carolina in 1956 the Ph.D. awarded. As a university lecturer he worked from 1957 in Duke and at Northwestern University in Chicago and from 1965 for the majority of his academic career at the University at Buffalo . Milbrath was director of the Environmental Studies Center there from 1976 to 1987 . Milbrath's work The Washington Lobbyists (1963) on the influence of lobbyists on Congress and Political Participation: How and Why do People Get Involved in Politics (1965) on political participation are particularly influential .

Publications (selection)

The Politics of environmental policy , Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications, 1975, ISBN 0-803-90567-X
Indicateurs de la qualité de l'environnement et de la qualité de la vie , Paris: Unesco, 1979, ISBN 9-232-01539-0
Environmentalists, vanguard for a new society , Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984, ISBN 0-585-06378-8
Envisioning a sustainable society: learning our way out , Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989, ISBN 0-585-05513-0
Learning to think environmentally: while there is still time , Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996, ISBN 0-585-07647-2

personal data
SURNAME	Milbrath, Lester W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American sociologist and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bertha (Minnesota)
DATE OF DEATH	December 26, 2007
Place of death	Amherst