Editing Harold Lasswell (section)

=== Professional affiliations and honors ===
To institutionalize the policy sciences he was formulating, Lasswell along with [[Myres S. McDougal|Myres McDougal]] and George Dession created the Policy Sciences Council in 1944 and the Policy Sciences Foundation in 1948.<ref name="Farr-2006">{{Cite journal |last1=Farr |first1=James |last2=Hacker |first2=Jacob S. |last3=Kazee |first3=Nicole |date=2006 |title=The Policy Scientist of Democracy: The Discipline of Harold D. Lasswell |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27644386 |journal=The American Political Science Review |volume=100 |issue=4 |pages=579–587 |doi=10.1017/S0003055406062459 |jstor=27644386 |s2cid=145322095 |issn=0003-0554}}</ref>

Lasswell served as president of the American Political Science Association in 1956 and president of the American Society of International Law from 1966 to 1968. He was also involved in the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science|Association for the Advancement of Science]], Commission on the Freedom of the Press, [[Committee for Economic Development]], and [[RAND Corporation|Rand Corporation]].<ref name="Almond-1987" />

During the course of his career, Lasswell received many honors, including honorary degrees from the University of Chicago, Columbia University, the University of Illinois, and the Jewish Theological Seminary.<ref name="Almond-1987" /> The [[American Council of Learned Societies]] honored him in 1960, calling him a "master of all the social sciences and pioneer in each."<ref name="McDougal-1979" /> He was a fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] and was inducted into the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 1974.<ref name="Almond-1987" />