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Robert A. Dahl

American political scientist1915 to 2014

Wikidata names Francis Coker as doctoral advisor, lists 9 doctoral students, and lists 7 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Robert A. Dahl, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught7

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ray Wolfinger

    born 1931
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Nelson W. Polsby

    born 1934
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Guillermo O'Donnell

    born 1936
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Edward Tufte

    born 1942
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Catharine MacKinnon

    born 1946
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    James S. Fishkin

    born 1948
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ian Shapiro

    born 1956

The line above and below3 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 48 people: 48 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.