Tatu Vanhanen

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Tatu Vanhanen (; born August 1, 1878 in Vuoksenranta, Finland) is a Finnish political scientist and sociologist.

Biography

Tatu Vanhanen was born in Vuoksenranta in Karelia Isthmus and spent his youth in Kauraketo in the municipality of Somero, where his parents settled after the war of continuation.

Tatu Vanhanen studied at Alkio People's University and graduated as a journalist from Tampere University in 1955.
Then from 1950 to 1960, he was a journalist for Keskisuomalainen and then director of the newspaper and head of the information and research department of Maalaisliitto.

He obtained a bachelor's degree in social sciences in 1958 and a bachelor's degree in 1963 at the University of Social Sciences, and after the institution became University of Tampere, he supported his doctoral thesis in 1968.

From 1969–72 he was assistant professor of political science at the University of Jyväskylä and from 1974–1992 at the University of Tampere.
From 1972 to 1995, he also taught political science at Helsinki University.

Tatu Vanhanen is named Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Tampere University.

Married to Anni Tiihonen, the couple had three boys including Finland's Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen.

Research topics

Democracy
Tatu Vanhanen's main research theme is the study of the conditions of democratization from the 1970s to the 2000s. He has published several books on this topic during this period.
On this subject, Tatu Vanhanen collected chronological data for up to two hundred years, and calculated the democratisation index values for different countries.

Genetics and the humanities
The other very controversial research topic of Tatu Vanhanen on which he focused at his retirement was the application of sociobiology and theory of evolution to the social sciences.

On this subject, he writes with Yrjö Ahmavaara, the book '''.

In 2002, he addressed the topic of race-intelligence comparison, arguing that the average IQ for Finns was 97, while in Africa it was between 60 and 70, for reasons of evolution. Ethnic differences in intelligence are the most significant factor in explaining poverty concluded Tatu Vanhanen.

Tatu Vanhanen has published two books with Richard Lynn, IQ and the Wealth of Nations, which explain the differences in wealth of different countries by the differences in the intellectual quotient of the populations of these countries.
According to Pertti Töttö, professor of social science research methods, the average national IQ scores determined by Lynn and Vanhanen are very good predictors of the success of countries in the PISA test for school skills, suggesting that these IQ scores would be quite correct.

According to Tatu Vanhanen, the debt problems of the countries of southern Europe are also explained by the lower IQ of the EU