Raymond Gastil
American social scientist
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Raymond Duncan Gastil (December 19, 1931 – December 14, 2010[1]) was an American social scientist, best known for evaluating political freedom in the Freedom in the World reports published by Freedom House.[2]
Biography
Gastil received his BA (social relations, 1953), MA (Middle Eastern Studies, 1956) and PhD (Social Science, 1959) from Harvard University.[3] He was a Fulbright Scholar in Pakistan (1953–4),[4] and taught anthropology and social science at the University of Oregon.[5] He spent seven years as a researcher at the Hudson Institute, analysing national security and other policy issues,[5] and contributed to the institute's 1968 book, Can We Win in Vietnam?.[4] In the early 1970s he worked at the Battelle Memorial Institute.[6][7] From 1977 to 1988 he was Director of Freedom House's annual survey.[5][8]
Books
- (co-editor), Can We Win in Vietnam?, Armbruster et al. (Praeger, 1968).
- (co-editor), Why ABM?: Policy issues in the missile defense controversy, Holst and Schneider, eds. (Pergamon, 1969).
- Cultural Regions of the United States, University of Washington Press, 1976
- Social Humanities: Toward an Integrative Discipline of Science and Values (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1977).
- (co-editor), Promoting Democracy: Opportunities and Issues, Goldman and Douglas, eds. (Praeger, 1988).
- (co-editor), Democracy and Development in East Asia: Taiwan, South Korea, and The Philippines, Robinson (ed.) (American Enterprise Institute, 1991).
- Progress: Critical Thinking About Historical Change (Westport: Praeger, 1993).
- (with Barnett Singer), The Pacific Northwest: Growth of a Regional Identity, McFarland, 2010
