This is a list of notable political scientists. See the

list of political theorists A political theorist is someone who engages in constructing or evaluating political theory, including political philosophy. Theorists may be academics or independent scholars. Here the most notable political theorists are categorized by their - ...

for those who study political theory. See also

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and ...

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* Robert Abelson - Yale University psychologist and political scientist with special interests in statistics and logic * Henry J. Abraham - American scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law and James Hart Professor of Government Emeritus at the University of Virginia *

Alan Abramowitz Alan Ira Abramowitz (born December 1, 1947) is an American political scientist and author, known for his research and writings on American politics, elections in the United States, and political parties in the United States. Early life Abramowitz ...

– expert in American politics, political parties, ideological realignment, elections, and voting behavior; professor at

Emory University Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...

Paul R. Abramson Paul Abramson may refer to: * Paul Abramson (politician) (1889–1976), Estonian politician * Paul R. Abramson (political scientist) (1937–2018), American political scientist * Paul R. Abramson (psychologist) (born 1949), American psycholog ...

- American political scientist known for his research and writing on American, European, and Israeli elections and professor of political science at Michigan State University * As'ad AbuKhalil - Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus. *

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Ibrahim Abu-Lughod ( ar, إبراهيم أبو لغد, February 15, 1929 – May 23, 2001) was a Palestinian (later American) academic, characterised by Edward Said as "Palestine's foremost academic and intellectual"Said 2001 and by Rashid Khali ...

* Brooke Ackerly - expert on grounded normative theory,

feminist theory Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's social roles, experiences, interests, chores, and femin ...

, feminist international relations, and scholar activism, professor at Vanderbilt University *

Martha Ackelsberg Martha A. Ackelsberg is an American political scientist and women's studies scholar. Her work focuses on the nature of power and its relationship with communities. Cases used in her research include feminist activism in the United States and th ...

- American political scientist and women's studies scholar at Smith College * David Adamany – public law specialist and President of

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then calle ...

* Charles R. Adrian - American professor of political science who specialized in municipal politics *

Vinod Aggarwal Vinod K. Aggarwal (born November 26, 1953) is a professor and Travers Family Senior Faculty Fellow of Political Science in the Haas School of Business, and directs the Berkeley APEC Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley ...

- American political scientist specializing in international political economy *

Robert Agranoff Robert Agranoff (May 25, 1936 – November 14, 2019) was an American political scientist and public administration scholar and author. A Professor Emeritus at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Agranoff was best k ...

- American political scientist and public administration scholar and author * Arun Agrawal - political scientist in the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan * Janet Ajzenstat - Canadian political historian at

McMaster University McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Ga ...

Adeolu Akande Adeolu Akande is a native of Otu in Itesuwaju Local Government of Oyo state and also a Nigerian political scientist and professor of Political Science at the Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State. Education He obtained his university degree in 19 ...

- professor of political science at the Igbinedion University * Bolaji Akinyemi - Nigerian professor of political science * Bethany Albertson - American political psychologist * Daniel P. Aldrich - American political scientist, public policy and Asian studies scholar at Northeastern University * John Aldrich – political parties expert at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist Jam ...

, author of ''Why Parties?'' * John R. Alford - political science professor at Rice University who researches genopolitics *

Hayward Alker Hayward R. Alker (1937 – 2007) was a Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California School of International Relations, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Yale University. Alker was also former ...

- professor of international relations at the University of Southern California, MIT and Yale who specialized in research methods, core international relations theory, international politics, and security *

Danielle Allen Danielle Susan Allen (born November 3, 1971) is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. She is also the Director of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard in 2015, Allen ...

- American classicist and political scientist *

Graham Allison Graham Tillett Allison Jr. (born March 23, 1940) is an American political scientist and the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is renowned for his contribution in the late ...

- early proponent of the bureaucratic politics model, author of

Essence of Decision ''Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis'' is book by political scientist Graham T. Allison analyzing the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Allison used the crisis as a case study for future studies into governmental decision-making. ...

national security National security, or national defence, is the security and defence of a sovereign state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of government. Originally conceived as protection against military att ...

specialist, former Dean of Harvard Kennedy School at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

* Gabriel A. Almond - originator of the culturist movement in

comparative politics Comparative politics is a field in political science characterized either by the use of the ''comparative method'' or other empirical methods to explore politics both within and between countries. Substantively, this can include questions relatin ...

Gar Alperovitz Gar Alperovitz (born May 5, 1936) is an American historian and political economist. Alperovitz served as a fellow of King's College, Cambridge; a founding fellow of the Harvard Institute of Politics; a founding Fellow at the Institute for Policy ...

- political economist * Karen Alter - American academic who conducts interdisciplinary work on international law's influence in international and domestic politics * Scott Althaus - professor of political science and communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the director of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the university * Micah Altman - American social scientist who conducts research in social science informatics * R. Michael Alvarez - professor of political science at California Institute of Technology and co-director of the Voting Technology Project *

Tabata Amaral Tabata Claudia Amaral de Pontes (born 14 November 1993) is a Brazilian politician and education activist. She is currently a federal deputy for the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) representing the state of São Paulo. Throughout 2019, she was a ...

- Brazilian political scientist and

federal deputy The Chamber of Deputies ( pt, Câmara dos Deputados) is a federal legislative body and the lower house of the National Congress of Brazil. The chamber comprises 513 deputies, who are elected by proportional representation to serve four-year t ...

for

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaW ...

Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served ...

- jurist, economist and Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the

Constitution of India The Constitution of India ( IAST: ) is the supreme law of India. The document lays down the framework that demarcates fundamental political code, structure, procedures, powers, and duties of government institutions and sets out fundamental ...

Thomas Ambrosio Thomas Ambrosio (born May 31, 1971) is a professor of political science in the Criminal Justice and Political Science Department at North Dakota State University. He teaches courses in international relations and international law. Career Amb ...

- professor of political science in the Criminal Justice and Political Science Department at North Dakota State University * Kristi Andersen - American political scientist at Syracuse University who studies party realignment * Walter K. Andersen - American academic known for his studies of the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh *

Benedict Anderson Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (August 26, 1936 – December 13, 2015) was an Anglo-Irish political scientist and historian who lived and taught in the United States. Anderson is best known for his 1983 book '' Imagined Communities'', which e ...

- Chinese-born Irish political scientist and historian in the US, author of '' Imagined Communities'' * Lisa Anderson - American political scientist and the former President of the American University in Cairo *

Walter Truett Anderson Walter Truett Anderson (born February 27, 1933) is an American political scientist, social psychologist, and author of numerous non-fiction books and articles in newspapers and magazines. In his public lectures, he frequently speculates that, if ...

- American political scientist, social psychologist, and author of non-fiction books and articles * William Anderson - specialist in public administration * Mina Andreeva -

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...

n political scientist and chief spokesperson for the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body ...

* Marimba Ani - anthropologist and African Studies scholar best known for her work ''Yurugu'' *

Stephen Ansolabehere Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere is a professor of government at Harvard University. He is the younger brother of animator Joe Ansolabehere. Education Ansolabehere received his B.A. in political science and B.S. in economics from the University of ...

- professor of government at Harvard University *

William Antholis William J. Antholis (born 1965) is a Greek-American political scientist. He is director and CEO of the Miller Center of Public Affairs, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public po ...

- Greek-American political scientist, director and CEO of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia *

David Apter David Ernest Apter (December 18, 1924 – May 4, 2010) was an American political scientist and sociologist. He was Henry J. Heinz Professor of Comparative Political and Social Development and senior research scientist at Yale University. He was ...

- American political scientist and sociologist who was Henry J. Heinz Professor of Comparative Political and Social Development and Senior Research Scientist at Yale University *

Asher Arian Asher Arian (August 4, 1938 – July 7, 2010) was an American and Israeli political scientist who was an expert on Israeli politics and election studies, and who served as a professor at universities in Israel and the United States. Arian was born ...

- American and Israeli political scientist who was an expert on Politics of Israel and election studies *

Hadley Arkes Hadley P. Arkes (born 1940) is an American political scientist and the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions ''emeritus'' at Amherst College, where he has taught since 1966. He is currently the founder and director of t ...

- American political scientist and the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions emeritus at Amherst College * John Alexander Armstrong - Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison *

Larry Arnhart Larry Arnhart (born January 13, 1949) is a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Arnhart has been described as one of the most promin ...

- Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northern Illinois University *

Richard Ashcraft Richard Ashcraft (26 September 1938 – 1 November 1995) was an American political theorist and Professor of Political Science at UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, ...

- American political theorist and professor of political science at UCLA * Herb Asher - professor emeritus of political science at Ohio State University *

Richard K. Ashley Richard K. Ashley is a Postmodernism (international relations), postmodernist scholar of International relations theory, International relations. He is an associate professor at the Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studie ...

- postmodernist scholar of international relations *

Ronald Asmus Ronald Dietrich Asmus (June 29, 1957 – April 30, 2011) was a United States diplomat and political analyst. As U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (1997–2000), he was instrumental in the expansion of NATO to include form ...

- diplomat and political analyst and then senior think tank policy analyst * Scott Atran - American-French political and cultural anthropologist * Sharon Wright Austin - Director of the African-American Studies Program and a professor of political science at the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...

* Deborah Avant - American political scientist at the University of Denver * Bill Avery - politician from the state of Nebraska and retired political scientist who specializes in international trade and foreign relations *

Robert Axelrod Robert Marshall Axelrod (born May 27, 1943) is an American political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan where he has been since 1974. He is best known for his interdisciplinary work o ...

- expert on

game theory Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. Myerson, Roger B. (1991). ''Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict,'' Harvard University Press, p.&nbs1 Chapter-preview links, ppvii–xi It has appli ...

and complexity theory, wrote extensively on the

Prisoner's Dilemma The Prisoner's Dilemma is an example of a game analyzed in game theory. It is also a thought experiment that challenges two completely rational agents to a dilemma: cooperate with their partner for mutual reward, or betray their partner ("def ...

, former president of

American Political Science Association The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903 in the Tilton Memorial Library (now Tilton Hall) of Tulane University in New Orle ...

* Julia Azari - American political scientist, professor of political science at Marquette University and contributor to ''FiveThirtyEight'' * Jeremy Azrael - American political scientist known for his expertise on the economy of the Soviet Union

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Andrew Bacevich Andrew J. Bacevich Jr. (, ; born July 5, 1947) is an American historian specializing in international relations, security studies, American foreign policy, and American diplomatic and military history. He is a Professor Emeritus of International ...

Gawdat Bahgat Gawdat Bahgat (born 1960s) is a professor of political science at the National Defense University. Bahgat was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt and earned degrees at Cairo University and American University in Cairo. He emigrated to the United Sta ...

* Kathleen Cordelia Bailey * Fatih Baja - Gar Yunis University teacher and member of the

National Transitional Council The National Transitional Council of Libya ( ar, المجلس الوطني الإنتقالي '), sometimes known as the Transitional National Council, was the ''de facto'' government of Libya for a period during and after the Libyan Civil War ...

in charge of political affairs * Susan Baker - Irish scholar of environmental governance in the European Union and ecofeminism, gender and the environment at

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* Lisa Baldez *

Michel Balinski Michel Louis Balinski (born Michał Ludwik Baliński; October 6, 1933 – February 4, 2019) was an applied mathematician, economist, operations research analyst and political scientist. As a Polish-American, educated in the United States, he li ...

* Moniz Bandeira - Brazilian writer, professor, political scientist, historian and poet * Mary Jo Bane *

Edward C. Banfield Edward Christie Banfield (November 19, 1916 – September 30, 1999) was an American political scientist, best known as the author of ''The Moral Basis of a Backward Society'' (1958), and ''The Unheavenly City'' (1970). His work was foundational to ...

Benjamin Barber Benjamin R. Barber (August 2, 1939 – April 24, 2017) was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, '' Jihad vs. McWorld'', and for 2013's ''If Mayors Ruled the World''. His 1984 book of political ...

- proponent of

participatory democracy Participatory democracy, participant democracy or participative democracy is a form of government in which citizens participate individually and directly in political decisions and policies that affect their lives, rather than through elected repr ...

and local governance teaching at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy * James David Barber - developed a classification system of the personality types of

American presidents The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. The officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and ...

Stephen Barber Stephen Barber (born 1974) is a British political scientist, political economist and author. He is Professor of Global Affairs at Regent's University London. He is also a senior fellow at the Global Policy Institute. He has also worked in the ...

- noted for his work on political strategy and

political economy Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour ...

, author of ''Political Strategy'' * Line Bareiro - Paraguayan political scientist, civil rights activist and feminist * Joel Barkan * Lucius Barker *

Michael Barkun __NOTOC__ Michael Barkun (born April 8, 1938) is an American academic who serves as Professor Emeritus of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, specializing in political and religious ext ...

* A. Doak Barnett * Michael Barnett - specialist in international relations * Thomas P.M. Barnett - security strategist * Simion Bărnuţiu - noted for his work on political strategy in Austria and Romania * Bethany Barratt * Matt A. Barreto *

David M. Barrett David M. Barrett (born 1951) is a professor of political science at Villanova University and author (along with Max Holland) of "Blind Over Cuba: The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis" (2012), "The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to K ...

* Larry Bartels -

democracy Democracy (From grc, δημοκρατία, dēmokratía, ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation (" direct democracy"), or to choose g ...

and

voting Voting is a method by which a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, can engage for the purpose of making a collective decision or expressing an opinion usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns. Democracies elect holde ...

expert at

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

* Robert V. Bartlett *

Gad Barzilai Gad Barzilai ( he, גד ברזילי; born 1958) is a full professor of law, political science and international studies, famous for his work on the politics of law, comparative law and politics, human rights and communities. Barzilai published ...

- Law and Politics, Human Rights and Politics, Communities and Law at

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seatt ...

* Sylvia Bashevkin - Canadian scholar of women and politics * Stephen Baskerville * Amrita Basu * Robert Bates *

Frank Baumgartner Frank Baumgartner is an American political scientist, currently the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and formerly the Distinguished Professor and Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne ...

* Phineas Baxandall * David H. Bayley * Elmira Bayrasli * Robert J. Beck *

Holmes Beckwith Holmes Beckwith (1884 – April 2, 1921) was an American political scientist and professor of finance and insurance at several universities. He shot and killed Dean J. Herman Wharton and himself at Syracuse University on April 2, 1921. Educati ...

Francis Beer Francis A. Beer is an American professor emeritus of political science, University of Colorado at Boulder. His research focuses on war and peace. Honors and awards include listings in Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in America, as well as o ...

Samuel Beer Samuel Hutchison Beer (July 28, 1911 – April 7, 2009) was an American political scientist who specialized in the government and politics of the United Kingdom. He was a longtime professor at Harvard University and served as president of the A ...

* Edward Beiser * Linda Royster Beito *

Charles Beitz Charles R. Beitz (born 1949) is an American political theorist. He is Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University, where he has been director of the University Center for Human Values and director of the Program in Political ...

Aaron Belkin Aaron Belkin (born March 12, 1966) is a political scientist, researcher and professor. He currently teaches political science at San Francisco State University and is the director of the Palm Center, a think tank that commissions and disseminates ...

* Adolphus G. Belk Jr. * Alon Ben-Meir * Daniel Benjamin * Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi - Moroccan political scientist, author and professor at the

University of Lausanne The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzer ...

* Linda L. M. Bennett * W. Lance Bennett *

William Benoit William Lyon Benoit (born March 17, 1953) is an American scholar in the field of political communication. He graduated from Ball State University in 1975 and obtained his Master of Arts degree from Central Michigan University in 1976. He also hold ...

* Myriam Benraad *

Richard Bensel Richard Franklin Bensel (born 1949) is a professor of American politics at Cornell University. Bensel has attempted to bridge the gap between American economic and political history, with an eye toward comparative implications. Bensel is best know ...

* Arthur F. Bentley * Suzanne Berger *

Adam Berinsky Adam J. Berinsky (born 1970) is a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of the 2004 book '' Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America'' and the 2009 book '' In Time o ...

Peter Berkowitz Peter Berkowitz (born 1959) is an American political scientist, former law professor, and United States Department of State employee, most recently serving as the Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State. He currently ...

Ilan Berman Ilan I. Berman (born December 23, 1975) is an American lawyer and educator. He is the Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council, a non-profit U.S. foreign policy think tank in Washington, DC. He focuses on regional security in the M ...

Marshall Berman Marshall Howard Berman (November 23, 1940–September 11, 2013) was an American philosopher and Marxist humanist writer. He was a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The City College of New York and at the Graduate Center of the Cit ...

Sheri Berman Sheri is a female given name, from the French for ''beloved'', and may refer to: * Sheri Anderson, American TV writer * Sheri Everts, American academic * Sheri Forde, Canadian reporter * Sheri Graner Ray, video game specialist * Sheri L. De ...

* Nancy Bermeo * William D. Berry * Michele Betsill *

Richard K. Betts Richard Kevin Betts (born August 15, 1947) is an American political scientist and international relations scholar who centers on U.S. foreign policy. He is currently the Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies in the Department of Pol ...

- prize-winning author in a number of political science areas * Mark Bevir - professor of political science and Director of the Center for British Studies at the

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, University of Califor ...

, Berkeley *

Seweryn Bialer Seweryn Bialer (November 3, 1926 in Berlin – February 8, 2019 in New York City) was a German-born American academic. He was emeritus professor of political science at Columbia University and an expert on the Communist parties of the Soviet Union ...

* Thomas J. Biersteker * Leonard Binder *

Sarah Binder Sarah A. Binder is an American political scientist, author, senior fellow with the Brookings Institution, and professor of political science at George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Science. Early life and education Bin ...

* Thomas A. Birkland *

Sarah Birch Sarah Birch, (born 5 December 1963) is an American political scientist and academic, specialising in comparative politics. Since 2016, she has been Professor of Political Science at King's College London. She had taught at the University of Esse ...

- professor in comparative politics at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

* Thomas A. Birkland - author of ''Lessons of Disaster'' * Rachel Bitecofer *

Duncan Black Duncan Black, FBA (23 May 1908 – 14 January 1991) was a Scottish economist who laid the foundations of social choice theory. In particular he was responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Lutw ...

- Spatial voting theorist * Earl Black *

Merle Black P. Merle Black (born 1942) is a retired American political scientist. He was formerly Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Political Science at Emory University. He specializes in Southern politics, particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries. Career ...

Chris Blattman Christopher Blattman is a Canadian-American economist and political scientist working on conflict, crime, and international development. He is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago's Harris School ...

* Hans T. Blokland - author of ''Freedom and Culture in Western Society'' and ''Modernization and its political consequences'' *

Jean Blondel Jean Blondel (26 October 1929 – 25 December 2022) was a French political scientist specialising in comparative politics. He was Emeritus Professor at the European University Institute in Florence, and visiting professor at the University of Sie ...

- comparative politics at

University of Siena The University of Siena ( it, Università degli Studi di Siena, abbreviation: UNISI) in Siena, Tuscany, is one of the oldest and first publicly funded universities in Italy. Originally called ''Studium Senese'', the institution was founded in 12 ...

, emeritus at

European University Institute The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute and an independent body of the European Union with juridical personality, established by the member states to contr ...

* Lincoln P. Bloomfield *

Virgil Blum Virgil Clarence Blum (1913–1990) was an American Jesuit and professor of political science at Marquette University. Early life and education Virgil Clarence Blum was born on March 27, 1913, in Defiance, Iowa, one of twelve children of John ...

Mark Blyth Mark McGann Blyth (born 29 September 1967) is a Scottish-American political scientist. He is currently the William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. At Brown ...

* Lawrence Bobo *

Alan Bock Alan W. Bock (December 3, 1943 – May 18, 2011) was an American libertarian author. He was a senior editorial writer and former editorial page editor for the ''Orange County Register'' for over 25 years. He wrote regular columns for WorldNetDaily ...

Sophie Body-Gendrot Sophie Body-Gendrot (30 October 1942 – 21 September 2018) was a French political scientist, criminologist and sociologist who specalised in security issues, urban violence, social inequality, and the discrimination young migrants suffered in the ...

* B. Anthony Bogues *

Jean-Charles de Borda Jean-Charles, chevalier de Borda (4 May 1733 – 19 February 1799) was a French mathematician, physicist, and Navy officer. Biography Borda was born in the city of Dax to Jean‐Antoine de Borda and Jeanne‐Marie Thérèse de Lacroix. In 1 ...

- 18th-century

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

who devised the

Borda count The Borda count is a family of positional voting rules which gives each candidate, for each ballot, a number of points corresponding to the number of candidates ranked lower. In the original variant, the lowest-ranked candidate gets 0 points, the ...

* David Bositis * Eileen Hunt Botting *

Catherine Boone Catherine Boone is Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Boone is a specialist in property rights, political economy, and territorial politics in Africa. Education Boone earned her B.A. at t ...

* Ammar Bouhouche - Algerian political and military leader and academic political scientist * Terry Bouricius * Donna Lee Bowen *

Shaun Bowler Shaun Bowler (born June 21, 1958) is Distinguished Professor & Dean of the Graduate Division in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a p ...

* Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier *

Mark A. Boyer Mark A. Boyer (born June 15, 1961) is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Connecticut. He is a specialist in international relations theory. His recent scholarship analyzes governmental ...

Jules Boykoff Jules Boykoff (born September 11, 1970) is an American academic, author, poet, and former athlete. He is a former professional soccer player. His research focuses on the politics of the Olympic Games, social movements, the suppression of dissent ...

* Paul Bracken * David W. Brady * Henry E. Brady * Ralph Braibanti *

Steven Brams Steven J. Brams (born November 28, 1940 in Concord, New Hampshire) is an American game theorist and political scientist at the New York University Department of Politics. Brams is best known for using the techniques of game theory, public choi ...

- expert on

voting systems An electoral system or voting system is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Electoral systems are used in politics to elect governments, while non-political elections m ...

Laurie Brand Laurie Ann Brand (born February 25, 1956) is a professor of international relations at the University of Southern California School of International Relations. Professor Brand specializes in the international relations of the Middle East, includ ...

Paul Brass Paul Richard Brass (November 8, 1936 – May 31, 2022) was an American political scientist known for his research on the politics of India. He was professor emeritus of political science and international relations at the Henry M. Jackson School o ...

Ahron Bregman Ahron "Ronnie" Bregman ( he, אהרון ברגמן, born 1958) is a UK-based political scientist of Israeli origin, as well as a writer and journalist, specialising on the Arab–Israeli conflict. Biography Bregman was born and raised in Israel ...

- expert on the

Arab–Israeli conflict The Arab–Israeli conflict is an ongoing intercommunal phenomenon involving political tension, military conflicts, and other disputes between Arab countries and Israel, which escalated during the 20th century, but had mostly faded out by th ...

Ian Bremmer Ian Arthur Bremmer (born November 12, 1969) is an American political scientist and author with a focus on global political risk. He is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm with principal offi ...

- political risk specialist * Janine Brodie - Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Political Economy and Social Governance at the University of Alberta * Stephen Brooks - international relations scholar * Lara Brown - American political scientist and director of the Graduate School of Political Management at the

George Washington University , mottoeng = "God is Our Trust" , established = , type = Private federally chartered research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.8 billion (2022) , presi ...

* Nadia E. Brown - uses intersectionality to study identity politics, legislative studies, and Black women's studies * Robert X. Browning - specialist in American politics and chief archivist for

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Zbigniew Brzezinski Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński ( , ; March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017), or Zbig, was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter' ...

- Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman * Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - pioneering game theorist with applications to international relations, author of selectorate theory *

Ralph Bunche Ralph Johnson Bunche (; August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, diplomat, and leading actor in the mid-20th-century decolonization process and US civil rights movement, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize ...

- American political scientist and diplomat; received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine *

Walter Dean Burnham Walter Dean Burnham (June 15, 1930 – October 4, 2022) was an American political scientist who was an expert on elections and voting patterns. He was known for his quantitative analysis of national trends and patterns in voting behavior, th ...

- expert in the field of realigning elections, emeritus at

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

* David Butler - pioneer of modern British political science, invented the concept of

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* Melani Cammett - Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and Director of the

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Linda Cardinal Linda Cardinal (born July 13, 1959) is a Franco-Ontarian political scientist. She is a University Professor and a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Francophonie and Public Policies at the University of Ottawa. Cardinal was elected a Fellow of ...

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and a

Canada Research Chair Canada Research Chair (CRC) is a title given to certain Canadian university research professors by the Canada Research Chairs Program. Program goals The Canada Research Chair program was established in 2000 as a part of the Government of Canada ...

in Canadian Francophonie and Public Policies at the

University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottaw ...

Ira Carmen Ira Harris Carmen (born December 3, 1934) graduated from the University of Michigan and is an American Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he taught from 1968 to 2009. Carmen is a co-fo ...

- co-founder of the social science subdiscipline of genetics and politics * Edward Hallett Carr - international relations theorist * Alfredo Castillero Hoyos - democracy and human rights; former member of the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoni ...

Human Rights Committee The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body composed of 18 experts, established by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The Committee meets for three four-week sessions per ...

George Catlin George Catlin (July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American adventurer, lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Traveling to the American West five times during the 18 ...

(1896–1979) – English political scientist and philosopher; strong proponent of Anglo-America cooperation; worked for many years as a professor at Cornell University * Pamela Chasek - international

environmental policy Environmental policy is the commitment of an organization or government to the laws, regulations, and other policy mechanisms concerning environmental issues. These issues generally include air and water pollution, waste management, ecosystem ma ...

expert *

Partha Chatterjee Partha ( sa, pārtha) may refer to: * Partha, an epithet of Arjuna Arjuna (Sanskrit: अर्जुन, ), also known as Partha and Dhananjaya, is a character in several ancient Hindu texts, and specifically one of the major characters of t ...

– Indian postcolonial critic, political and social scientist * Rumman Chowdhury - Bengali-American political scientist and data scientist at Accenture *

Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri (1935–2016) was an Indian political scientist, political historian and international relations expert. He was a senior research fellow in international relations at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Univers ...

- international relations, Indology at

Institute of Commonwealth Studies The Institute of Commonwealth Studies, founded in 1949, is the sole postgraduate academic institution in the United Kingdom devoted to the study of the Commonwealth. It is also home to the longest-running interdisciplinary and practice-oriented ...

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook (born 1976) is a German-American political scientist. She was the director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations from June 2021 to February 2022. Biography Clüver Ashbrook grew up as the child of an Ameri ...

- Director and CEO of the

German Council on Foreign Relations The German Council on Foreign Relations (german: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V. (DGAP)) is Germany's national foreign policy network and policy research institute. As an independent, private, non-partisan and non-profit org ...

and co-founder and executive director of the Future of Diplomacy project, at

’s

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs The Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, also known as the Belfer Center, is a research center located within the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, in the United States. From 2017 until his death in O ...

. * John Coakley - specialist in ethnic conflict and Irish politics * Benjamin Cohen - leader in the field of international political economy * Elizabeth F. Cohen - American expert on citizenship and immigration *

Stephen P. Cohen Stephen Philip Cohen (1936 – October 27, 2019) was an American political scientist and professor of security studies. He was a prominent expert on India, Pakistan and South Asian security, He was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at ...

- Middle East specialist * James Smoot Coleman - early Africanist, founded the UCLA African Studies Center *

Marquis de Condorcet Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (; 17 September 1743 – 29 March 1794), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher and mathematician. His ideas, including support for a liberal economy, free and equal pu ...

- 18th-century

and

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

who contributed the often used "Condorcet criterion" and devised the concept of a

Condorcet method A Condorcet method (; ) is an election method that elects the candidate who wins a majority of the vote in every head-to-head election against each of the other candidates, that is, a candidate preferred by more voters than any others, whenever ...

* Ralph W. Conant - author of ''The Prospects for Revolution'' and ''Toward a More Perfect Union: The Governance of Metropolitan America'' * Philip Converse - public opinion scholar, author of ''The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics'' * Timothy E. Cook - politics and media *

Clyde Coombs Clyde Hamilton Coombs (July 22, 1912 – February 4, 1988) was an American psychologist specializing in the field of mathematical psychology. He devised a voting system, that was hence named Coombs' method. Coombs founded the Mathematical Psychol ...

- voting systems expert, designed "Coombs' method" *

Morgan Lyon Cotti Morgan Lyon Cotti is an American political scientist and, since 2017, is the Associate Director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics. Cotti's interest in politics began when she was 16 years old and served as a Page of the United States Senate. ...

- professor, associate director of the

Hinckley Institute of Politics The Hinckley Institute of Politics is a nonpartisan institute located on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, Utah. Its purpose is "to engage students in transformative experiences and provide political thought leadership" through inv ...

Philip Cowley Philip Cowley is a British political scientist and an academic at Queen Mary University of London in the School of Politics and International Relations. He previously held the same title at the University of Nottingham. Within academia he is parti ...

- author of ''Revolts and Rebellions'' * Edvin Kanka Ćudić - Bosnian political scientist and human rights activist, founder and coordinator of UDIK in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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* Alison Dagnes - American specialist in politics and the media, politics and humor, and political scandal *

Robert A. Dahl Robert Alan Dahl (; December 17, 1915 – February 5, 2014) was an American political theorist and Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He established the pluralist theory of democracy—in which political outcomes ar ...

- American politics specialist, author of ''On Democracy'' *

Jouke de Vries Professor Jouke de Vries (born 26 September 1960 in Dearsum) is chairman of the Executive Board of the University of Groningen (RUG) in The Netherlands. Before that he was Dean of the University of Groningen/Campus Fryslân in Leeuwarden. De ...

- Frisian politician and professor at the

university of Leiden Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a reward to the city of Le ...

* Vera Micheles Dean - Russian American political scientist, former head of research for the Foreign Policy Association, and leading international affairs authority in the 1940s and 1950s * Ronald Deibert - Canadian political scientist and founder and director of the

Citizen Lab The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, Canada. It was founded by Ronald Deibert in 2001. The laboratory studies information controls that impact the openness ...

at the University of Toronto * Fatima Denton - Ethiopian political scientist, Officer-in-Charge of the Special Initiatives Division and the Co-ordinator for the African Climate Policy Centre of the

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA or ECA; french: link=no, Commission économique pour l'Afrique, CEA) was established in 1958 by the United Nations Economic and Social Council to encourage economic cooperation among its ...

Daniel Deudney Daniel Horace Deudney (born March 9, 1953) is an American political scientist and Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His published work is mainly in the fields of international relations and political theory, with an emph ...

- writer and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University; author of ''Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village'' * Karl Deutsch - political scientist, focused on political communication * Larry Diamond - comparative democratization specialist; professor at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is conside ...

Thomas Diez Thomas Diez (born 2 February 1970) is a German professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Institute for Political Science, University of Tübingen. He was formerly Professor of International Relations Theory in the Department ...

- chair in International Relations at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

* Michelle Dion - professor in the Department of Political Science and the Senator William McMaster Chair in Gender and Methodology at

John DiIulio John J. Dilulio Jr. (born 1958) is an American political scientist. He currently serves as the Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Caree ...

- American politics expert at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest- ...

* Ruth Dixon - winner of the

Louis Brownlow Louis Brownlow (August 29, 1879 – September 27, 1963) was an American author, political scientist, and consultant in the area of public administration. As chairman of the Committee on Administrative Management (better known as the Brownlow Comm ...

Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration and the

W. J. M. Mackenzie William James Millar Mackenzie CBE FBA (1909–1996), also known as Bill Mackenzie, was professor of government at the University of Manchester and professor of politics at the University of Glasgow. He was appointed Commander of the Order of ...

award of the

Political Studies Association The Political Studies Association (PSA) is a learned society in the United Kingdom which exists to develop and promote the study of politics. It is the leading association in its field in the United Kingdom, with an international membership includi ...

. *

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequel ...

(also known as

Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are '' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequ ...

) - author of ''

Alice in Wonderland ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (commonly ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatur ...

'' and professor of mathematics at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

; devised Dodgson's method of

* Robert Donaldson - professor at

University of Tulsa The University of Tulsa (TU) is a private research university in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It has a historic affiliation with the Presbyterian Church and the campus architectural style is predominantly Collegiate Gothic. The school traces its origin to ...

and specialist in US/Russian foreign policy *

Anthony Downs Anthony Downs (November 21, 1930October 2, 2021) was an American economist specializing in public policy and public administration. His research focuses included political choice theory, rent control, affordable housing, and transportation ec ...

- contributed to democratic theory, elections studies * Donald Downs - professor at University of Wisconsin; researcher for Independent Institute *

Michael W. Doyle Michael W. Doyle is an American international relations scholar who is a theorist of the liberal "democratic peace" and author of ''Liberalism and World Politics''. He has also written on the comparative history of empires and the evaluation o ...

- international relations theorist, author of ''Empires'' * Daniel Drezner - professor at

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

, specializing in

international politics International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such a ...

Murray Dry Murray Dry is an American political scientist specializing in American constitutional law, American political thought, political philosophy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, federalism, separation of powers, and the American founding. Dry ...

- professor at

Middlebury College Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalists, Middlebury was the first operating college or university in Vermont. The college currently enrolls 2,858 undergraduates from all 5 ...

, specializing in

constitutional law Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in fe ...

John Dryzek John S. Dryzek (born 23 June 1953) is a Centenary Professor at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra's Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis. Education Dryzek has a B.A. (Honours) in ...

- professor at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...

, specializing in

deliberative democracy Deliberative democracy or discursive democracy is a form of democracy in which deliberation is central to decision-making. It adopts elements of both consensus decision-making and majority rule. Deliberative democracy differs from traditional ...

and

environmental politics Environmental politics designate both the politics about the environment (see also environmental policy) and an academic field of study focused on three core components:Carter, Neil. 2007. ''The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Polic ...

* John Dunn - political theorist at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

Maurice Duverger Maurice Duverger (5 June 1917 – 16 December 2014) was a French jurist, sociologist, political scientist and politician born in Angoulême, Charente. Starting his career as a jurist at the University of Bordeaux, Duverger became more and m ...

- French

lawyer A lawyer is a person who practices law. The role of a lawyer varies greatly across different legal jurisdictions. A lawyer can be classified as an advocate, attorney, barrister, canon lawyer, civil law notary, counsel, counselor, solicit ...

and sociologist responsible for Duverger's law *

Rand Dyck Perry Rand Dyck (born 1943 in Calgary, Alberta) is the author of the Canadian Politics: Critical Approaches textbook which is used in many Canadian universities, and taught to students studying Political Science, Law, Economics, Women's Studies, Ph ...

- Canadian politics expert and professor at

Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning Wo ...

* Thomas R. Dye -

elite theory In political science and sociology, elite theory is a theory of the State that seeks to describe and explain power relationships in contemporary society. The theory posits that a small minority, consisting of members of the economic elite and poli ...

vs. pluralism; author of ''The Irony of Democracy'' and ''Who's Running America?''

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* David Easton - originator of systemic theory * Susan Eaton - American political scientist and workers' rights activist *

Daniel J. Elazar Daniel Judah Elazar (August 25, 1934 – December 2, 1999) was a political scientist known for his seminal studies of political culture of the US states. He was professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and Temple University ...

- American federalism and political culture scholar, founder of the

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) is an Israeli research institute specializing in public diplomacy and foreign policy founded in 1976. Currently, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs's research portfolio consists of five primar ...

, political science professor at Bar Ilan (Israel) and

* Keisha Lynne Ellis - Bahamian political scientist *

Jean Bethke Elshtain Jean Paulette Bethke Elshtain (1941–2013) was an American ethicist, political philosopher, and public intellectual. She was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the University of Chicago Divinity School with ...

- American political philosopher focusing on gender, ethics, American democracy, and

international relations International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such ...

Jon Elster Jon Elster (; born 22 February 1940, Oslo) is a Norwegian philosopher and political theorist who holds the Robert K. Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University. He received his PhD in social science from the École Norma ...

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

social and

political theorist A political theorist is someone who engages in constructing or evaluating political theory, including political philosophy. Theorists may be Academia, academics or independent scholars. Here the most notable political theorists are categorized b ...

authored works in the

philosophy of social science The philosophy of social science is the study of the logic, methods, and foundations of social sciences (psychology, cultural anthropology, sociology, etc...). Philosophers of social science are concerned with the differences and similarities be ...

and

rational choice theory Rational choice theory refers to a set of guidelines that help understand economic and social behaviour. The theory originated in the eighteenth century and can be traced back to political economist and philosopher, Adam Smith. The theory postula ...

and a notable proponent of

Analytical Marxism Analytical Marxism is an approach to Marxist theory that was prominent amongst English-speaking philosophers and social scientists during the 1980s. Described by G. A. Cohen as "non-bullshit Marxism", members of this school seek to apply the t ...

Jadwiga Emilewicz Jadwiga Katarzyna Emilewicz (born 27 August 1974) is a Polish politician and political scientist. In 2020, she was Deputy Prime Minister of Poland. In 2019, she became Minister of Development, upon her three-year service as an undersecretary of ...

- Polish politician, political scientist, and government minister *

Cynthia Enloe Cynthia Holden Enloe (born July 16, 1938) is a feminist writer, theorist, and professor. She is best known for her work on gender and militarism and for her contributions to the field of feminist international relations. She has also had major i ...

- international relations scholar focusing on Feminism in international relations, editor for such scholarly journals as '' Signs'' and the ''

International Feminist Journal of Politics The ''International Feminist Journal of Politics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering international relations and international political economy with a focus on gender issues in global politics. The journal was established by ...

'' *

Eqbal Ahmed Eqbal Ahmad (1933 – 11 May 1999) was a Pakistani political scientist, writer and academic known for his anti-war activism, his support for resistance movements globally and academic contributions to the study of Near East. Born in Bihar ...

- Pakistani political scientist and Third World scholer

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* C. Christine Fair - American political scientist who studies

counter-terrorism Counterterrorism (also spelled counter-terrorism), also known as anti-terrorism, incorporates the practices, military tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, law enforcement, business, and intelligence agencies use to combat or ...

and

South Asia South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The region consists of the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.;;;;; ...

n topics * James D. Fearon - American political scientist focusing on theory of civil wars, international bargaining, war's inefficiency puzzle and audience costs * Peter D. Feaver - international security expert *

David Fellman David Fellman (1907 – 2003) was a political scientist and constitutional scholar and advocate for academic freedom. He taught general constitutional law, administrative law and civil liberties. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska and studied at the U ...

- Constitutional scholar *

Richard Fenno Richard Francis Fenno Jr. (December 12, 1926 – April 21, 2020) was an American political scientist known for his pioneering work on the U.S. Congress and its Members of Congress, members. He was Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at th ...

- Congress scholar, author of ''Home Style: House Members in their Districts'' * Thomas Ferguson - politics and economics *

Joel S. Fetzer Joel Steven Fetzer (born November 13, 1965) is an American political scientist best known for his pioneering work on comparative politics, nationalism, and democratization. He is a distinguished professor of political science at Pepperdine Univ ...

- comparative politics specialist; distinguished professor at

Pepperdine University Pepperdine University () is a private research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ with its main campus in Los Angeles County, California. Pepperdine's main campus consists of 830 acres (340 ha) overlooking the Pacific Ocean and th ...

Samuel Finer Samuel Edward Finer FBA (22 September 1915 – 9 June 1993) was a British political scientist and historian specializing in comparative politics, who was instrumental in advancing political studies as an academic subject in the United Kingdom ...

- academic and author on political science and history of government *

Norman Finkelstein Norman Gary Finkelstein (; born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist, activist, former professor, and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. He is a g ...

- author on political science, notable for ''The Holocaust Industry'' *

Martha Finnemore Martha Finnemore (born 1959) is an American constructivist scholar of international relations, and University Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. She is considered among the most influential int ...

- international relations and international organizations scholar *

Morris P. Fiorina Morris P. Fiorina (born 1946) is an American political scientist and co-author of the book '' Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America'' with Jeremy C. Pope (Brigham Young University). Biography Fiorina received his B.A. from Allegheny Coll ...

- American politics; proposed retrospective vote theory *

Peter Fishburn Peter Clingerman Fishburn (September 2, 1936 – June 10, 2021) was an American mathematician, known as a pioneer in the field of decision theory. In collaboration with Steven Brams, Fishburn published a paper about approval voting in 1978. Biog ...

- operations analysis and probability theory expert * Keith Fitzgerald - immigration politics expert * Naika Foroutan - German political scientist studying immigration and integration * James H. Fowler - expert on political participation, the evolution of cooperation, and social network theory (

UCSD The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...

) * Daniel P. Franklin - American politics; politics of the presidency and Politics and Film * Annette Baker Fox - international relations scholar *

William T. R. Fox William Thornton Rickert Fox (January 12, 1912 – October 24, 1988), generally known as William T. R. Fox (or occasionally W. T. R. Fox), was an American foreign policy professor and international relations theoretician at the Columbia University ...

- international relations theorist, coiner of the term "superpower" * Ernst Fraenkel - German political scientist and one of the founding fathers of German political science after World War II * Doris Fuchs (scientist) - German political scientist and Professor of International Relations and Sustainable Development at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of stud ...

Francis Fukuyama Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (; born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, international relations scholar and writer. Fukuyama is known for his book ''The End of History and the Last Man'' (1992), which argue ...

- international political theory and biopolitics * Archon Fung

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* Michael Gallagher * Krenar Gashi - Ghent University political scientist and former ''Financial Times'' reporter * Lisa García Bedolla -

UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant uni ...

professor, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, and Dean of the Graduate Division * Scott Gates - specialist in international relations *

Barbara Geddes Barbara Geddes (born October 15, 1944) is an American political scientist. One of the main important theorists of authoritarianism and empirical catalogers of authoritarian regimes, she is currently a full professor at the Department of Political ...

- scholar of authoritarianism and authoritarian regimes *

Anthony Giddens Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is ...

- political sociologist originator of the Third Way * Elisabeth Gidengil - Hiram Mills Professor of political science at McGill University studying political engagement and Canadian politics *

Robert Gilpin Robert Gilpin (; July 2, 1930 – June 20, 2018) was an American political scientist. He was Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University where he held ...

- international political economy specialist * Benjamin Ginsberg – professor at

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

focusing on American politics * Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson - Professor of Political Science at the

University of Iceland The University of Iceland ( is, Háskóli Íslands ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servant ...

focusing on

political theory Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, ...

* Marianne Githens - political scientist, feminist, author, professor, and co-founder of the Women's Study Program at

Goucher College Goucher College ( ') is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. It was chartered in 1885 by a conference in Baltimore led by namesake John F. Goucher and local leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church.https://archive.org/details/h ...

* Betty Glad - American researcher of the American presidency and American foreign policy * Siri Gloppen - Norwegian political scientist * Sheldon Goldman - expert on American federal courts; professor at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, ...

* Grigorii Golosov - expert on political institutions and electoral systems, professor at

European University at Saint Petersburg The European University at Saint Petersburg (russian: Европейский университет в Санкт-Петербурге), sometimes referred to as EUSP, is a non-state graduate university located in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was ...

David F. Gordon David F. Gordon is Head of Research at Eurasia Group, the political risk consultancy. He was previously the U.S. State Department's Director of Policy Planning, where he held a rank equivalent to a United States Assistant Secretary of State. Lif ...

- political risk specialist, former US

Director of Policy Planning The Director of Policy Planning is the United States Department of State official in charge of the department's internal think tank, the Policy Planning Staff. In the department, the Director of Policy Planning has a rank equivalent to Assistan ...

Harold Foote Gosnell Harold Foote Gosnell (December 24, 1896 – January 8, 1997) was an American political scientist and writer, known for his research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties. Gosnell attended the University of Rochester ...

- research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties in political science *

Marie Gottschalk Marie Gottschalk (born December 17, 1958) is an American political scientist and professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, known for her work on mass incarceration in the United States. Gottschalk is the author of ''The Pris ...

- American political scientist known for her work on mass incarceration in the United States * Heather Grabbe - political scientist, activist, and director of the Open Society European Policy Institute in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

, Belgium * Doris Graber - American pioneer in the field of political communication * Colin Gray - international security * Donald Green - Professor of Political Science at Columbia University focusing on

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in American politics * Jane Green - professor of political science at the

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and co-director of the

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who specialised in

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and electoral behaviour *

Liah Greenfeld Liah Greenfeld is an Israeli-American Russian-Jewish interdisciplinary scholar engaged in the scientific explanation of human social reality on various levels, beginning with the individual mind and ending with the level of civilization. She has ...

- Israeli, American, and Russian social scientist * Anna Grzymala - American political scientist, currently at

and previously also the Ronald Eileen Weiser Professor at

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

Rhiana Gunn-Wright Rhiana Gunn-Wright (born 1988) is the Climate Policy Director at the Roosevelt Institute. She has worked with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as an author of the Green New Deal. Gunn-Wright was educated at Yale, before becoming a Rhodes Scholar at the U ...

- American policy director * Yaprak Gürsoy - Turkish political scientist and associate professor in the Department of International Relations at the

Istanbul Bilgi University Istanbul Bilgi University ( tr, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi), officially established in 1996, is a private university located in Istanbul, Turkey. The university has 4 campuses centrally-located in Istanbul namely SantralIstanbul, Kuştepe, Do ...

* Ted Robert Gurr - specialist on conflict and violence *

Amy Gutmann Amy Gutmann (born November 19, 1949) is an American academic and diplomat who is the United States Ambassador to Germany. She was the eighth president of the University of Pennsylvania. In November 2016, the school announced that her contract ...

- political theory expert; president of the University of Pennsylvania (2004–present)

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* Michael Haas – Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai'i *

Jacob Hacker Jacob Stewart Hacker (born 1971) is an American professor and political scientist. He is the director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and a professor of political science at Yale University. Hacker has written works on social poli ...

- Professor of Political Science at Yale University * Henrike Hahn - German political scientist and politician who is a

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Paul Y. Hammond Paul Young Hammond (February 24, 1929 – March 9, 2012) was an American foreign policy and security studies scholar. He was Distinguished Service Professor (Emeritus after 2004) at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and Interna ...

- American foreign policy and national security specialist at University of Pittsburgh and elsewhere * Harry Harding -

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specialist * Thomas Hare - devised

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(also known as Hare's method) * Jeremy Harris - American politics specialist * Michael Hart - British twentieth-century politics specialist * Louis Hartz - American author of ''The Liberal Tradition in America'' *

Mary Hawkesworth Mary Hawkesworth (born June 26, 1952) is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is a political scientist trained in feminist theory Feminist theory is the extension o ...

- American political scientist and Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and

Gender Studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field n ...

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

Colin Hay Colin James Hay (born 29 June 1953) is a Scottish-Australian musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and the sole continuous member of the band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist. Hay's music ha ...

- influential British political scientist *

Clarissa Rile Hayward Clarissa Rile Hayward is an American political scientist and political philosopher, currently a professor in political science at Washington University in St. Louis with affiliations in American culture studies, urban studies, and philosophy. Ha ...

- professor at Washington University in St. Louis studying the theory of political power and political identities *

Katharine Hayhoe Katharine Anne Scott Hayhoe (born 1972) is a Canadian atmospheric scientist. She is a Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor and an Endowed Chair in Public Policy and Public Law in the Texas Tech University Department of Political Science. I ...

atmospheric scientist Atmospheric science is the study of the Earth's atmosphere and its various inner-working physical processes. Meteorology includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics with a major focus on weather forecasting. Climatology is the study o ...

and professor of political science at

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and director of the Climate Science Center * Susan Hekman - professor of

and director of the graduate humanities program at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) * Marc Hetherington - author of ''Why Trust Matters''; offered a new participation paradigm * Christopher J. Hill - international relations scholar, Professor and Director of the Cambridge Centre of International Studies *

Roger Hilsman Roger Hilsman Jr. (November 23, 1919 – February 23, 2014) was an American soldier, government official, political scientist, and author. He saw action in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II, first with Merrill's Marauders, getting w ...

- aide to John F. Kennedy,

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professor, and prolific author * Nancy Hirschmann - Professor of Politics at the

working in the intersection of political theory and public policy * Sara Hobolt - Danish political scientist who specialises in European politics and electoral behaviour * Thomas Holbrook - public opinion and elections research, author ''Do Campaigns Matter?'' * Christopher Hood - author of The Art of the State and A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? *

Donald L. Horowitz Donald L. Horowitz (born 1939) is James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke Law School and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States. He earned his PhD from Harvard University in 1968 and also holds degrees from ...

- pioneered political science models for assessing ethnic conflict *

Mala Htun Mala Htun is an American political scientist, currently a professor of political science at the University of New Mexico. Htun studies comparative politics, particularly women's rights and the politics of race and ethnicity with a focus on La ...

- studies women's rights and the politics of race and ethnicity in a comparative context * Evelyne Huber - studies democracy and redistribution with a focus on Latin America * Mark Huddleston - former President of Ohio Wesleyan University and President of the University of New Hampshire * Samuel P. Huntington - author of ''Clash of Civilizations'' and ''The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century''; comparativist

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* Kancha Ilaiah - Dalit scholar and social scientist * Ronald Inglehart - professor at the University of Michigan; founder of the World Values Survey * Shanto Iyengar - American political scientist

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* David J. Jackson - Entertainment/celebrity and politics expert * Lawrence R. Jacobs - American political scientist and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota * Gary Jacobson - Constitutional law expert * Ashley E. Jardina - American political scientist and assistant professor of political science at Duke University
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* Attahiru Jega - Nigerian political scientists specialised in political development. former Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC chairman and also Former vice Chancellor of Bayero University. * Robert Jervis - international security specialist * Chalmers Johnson - comparative theorist * Jason A. Johnson - campaign management * Loch K. Johnson - United States intelligence expert * Charles O. Jones - specialist in American politics * Bertrand de Jouvenel - French political scientist; co-founder of Mont Pelerin Society

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*Kelly Kadera - professor at University of Iowa studying international relations, democratic backsliding, and gender in politics using dynamic models *Alice Kang - professor at University of Nebraska–Lincoln, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, expert in African politics and gender research * Nazokat Kasimova - Uzbekistani political scientist, also noted for her work within the field of higher education reform * Nina Kasniunas – author and the Arsht Professor in Ethics and Leadership at

* Nancy Kassop - Professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz * Peter Katzenstein – professor at Cornell, former president of the American Political Science Association * Ira Katznelson – specialist in American and comparative politics * Dennis Kavanagh * Michael Keating (academic), Michael Keating – specialist in nationalism, European integration and regionalism * Margaret Keck – developed the study of international activist movements and networked advocacy * Edmond Keller – specialist in African politics * Willmoore Kendall – political theorist; teacher of William F. Buckley, Jr. * Robert Keohane, Robert O. Keohane – interdependence theory author * Ben Kerkvliet – specialist in comparative politics * Cornelius Kerwin – Former president of American University * V.O. Key, Jr. – elections, parties and public opinion scholar * Laleh Khalili - Iranian American and professor in Middle Eastern politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies * Ilona Kickbusch - German political scientist best known for her contribution to health promotion and global health * Gary King (political scientist), Gary King – professor at Harvard, political methodologist * John W. Kingdon – specialist in American politics * Grayson L. Kirk – specialist in international relations and President of

* Henry Kissinger – former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President Richard M. Nixon * Herbert Kitschelt – author on new radical right parties * Stephen D. Krasner – international regimes author, Director of Policy Planning under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and professor at

* Michael Krassa – elections, social context, architecture and society; lobbyist, consultant, political sociologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign * Oskar Krejčí – theory of international relations, elections and political psychology, former advisor to two Czechoslovak premieres * Sarah Kreps — foreign and defense policy, nuclear proliferation, and government transparency * James Kurth * Will Kymlicka – originated the theoretical foundations of multiculturalism

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* Guy Laforest – liberalism (John Locke) scholar; Quebec and Canadian politics specialist * Celinda Lake - American survey methodologist, pollster, and political consulting, political strategist * Enid Lakeman - British political reformer, writer and politician, noted for her long-standing championship of the Single Transferable Vote system of elections * Laura Langbein - American quantitative methodologist and professor of public administration and policy at American University * Harold Lasswell – political communications, pioneered early efforts to establish the policy sciences and influential contributor to the Stages Heuristic * Adria Lawrence - American political scientist and the Aronson Associate Professor of International Studies and Political Science at

* Jack Layton – former leader of the New Democratic Party (Canada), New Democratic Party of Canada, Ph.D. in Political Science * Richard Ned Lebow – constructivist, Cold War expert, author of ''Tragic Vision of Politics'' * Michael Leifer – international relations, South Asian Studies, London School of Economics * Noémi Lefebvre - French political scientist at the Instituts d'études politiques of Grenoble II * Margaret Levi – scholar of comparative political economy, labor politics, democratic theory, former

president * Carl Levy (political scientist), Carl Levy – Goldsmiths College, University of London * Robert C. Lieberman – scholar of American politics and provost of

* Arend Lijphart – originator of consociationalism * Fernando Limongi - professor in the São Paulo School of Economics at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas * Juan Linz – democracy specialist * Dan Lipinski – U.S. House of Representatives (IL-D, 3rd) * Seymour Martin Lipset – political theorist on democracy and development and parties; taught at

* Leslie Lipson – was scholar of comparative politics and democracy at UC Berkeley * Ramon Llull – discoverer of Condorcet Criterion and Borda Count * Claudia López Hernández - Colombian political scientist and politician who was a Senate of Colombia, Senator of the Republic of Colombia * Theodore Lowi – major scholar of American politics at Cornell University * Ian Lustick – state territoriality ethnic conflict and computer modelling in political science; University of Pennsylvania

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* Mizanur Rahman Shelley – was a minister of the Government of Bangladesh, political analyst, political scientist and educationalist. * Niccolò Machiavelli – considered the originator of historically based political science; author of ''The Prince'' * Beatriz Magaloni – political scientist at

* Pia Mancini - political scientist, activist and technical project leader from Argentina * Jane Mansbridge – scholar of social movements, gender, and democratic engagement (

), former

president * Harvey C. Mansfield – political philosophy (

) * Zeev Maoz – Arab-Israeli Conflict and international relations expert * José María Maravall Herrero, Jose M. Maravall – political economist * Helen Margetts – Formerly Director of the Oxford Internet Institute and current Director of the Public Policy Programme at the Alan Turing Institute * David Marsh (political scientist), David Marsh – influential British political scientist * Juraj Marusiak – Slovak expert for Central and Eastern Europe * Joanna Marszałek-Kawa - Polish lawyer, political scientist, professor and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń * David R. Mayhew – U.S. legislative behavior and political parties expert * Amy Mazur - American political scientist and professor at Washington State University * John McCormick (political scientist), John McCormick – specialist in European Union politics * Tara McCormack - lecturer in International Relations, international relations at the University of Leicester * Rose McDermott - Professor of International Relations at Brown University * Michael McFaul – Russia specialist, professor and director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at

* John McGarry – ethnic conflict specialist * J. Patrice McSherry - professor of political science at Long Island University * John Mearsheimer – international relations theorist and national security expert * Samuel Merrill III – voting behavior and party competition * George Michael (professor), George Michael – specialist in right-wing extremism * David Miller (political theorist), David Miller – political philosopher, specialized in theories of social justice * Charles Mills (political scientist), Charles Mills – political philosopher specialising in race relations; author of ''The Racial Contract'' * Sara McLaughlin Mitchell - American political scientist and the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Political Science at University of Iowa * Terry M. Moe – specialist in American politics * Malcolm Moos – former President of the University of Minnesota * Andrew Moravcsik – professor at Princeton University, liberal IR theorist, specialist on European Union politics * Hans Morgenthau – realist, international relations specialist * James D. Morrow – international relations expert and game theorist *Rebecca Morton – expert in American politics (political science), American Politics, Political Economy, and Experimental political science, Experimental Methods; professor at New York University * Gerardo L. Munck – comparative politics specialist, expert on democratization and Latin America * Michael Munger – trained as an economist, chair of political science at

, running for governor of North Carolina as a Libertarian Party (United States), Libertarian * Naomi Murakawa - American political scientist and associate professor of African-American studies at Princeton University * Mohammed Barkindo - He is Nigerian political scientists and petroleum economist. current secretary general of OPEC. * Clark A. Murdock – Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies * Diana Mutz - Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the

and the director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics * Harris Mylonas – Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at

and editor-in-chief of Nationalities Papers

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* Brigitte L. Nacos - professor in political science at

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Centre for Rising Powers * Antonio Negri * Franz Leopold Neumann – known for analysis of National Socialism * Kalypso Nicolaïdis - Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for International Studies at Oxford University * David Nolan (libertarian), David Nolan – founder of the United States Libertarian Party * Douglass North – Nobel laureate * Pippa Norris – Harvard comparative political scientist * Philip Norton – British politics expert * Julie Novkov – American political scientist at SUNY Albany studying the history of American law, American political development, and subordinated identities * Joseph Nye – "soft power" international security specialist; Kennedy School Dean

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*Karen O'Connor (professor), Karen O'Conner - political science professor at American University in Washington, D.C. and the founder and director emerita of the Women & Politics Institute *Aloysius-Michaels Nnabugwu Okolie - professor at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka * Guillermo O'Donnell – democracy specialist * Brendan O'Leary – ethnic conflict specialist * Cornelius O'Leary – Irish historian and political scientist * Bertell Ollman – political theorist * Mancur Olson – international political economy specialist; expert on collective action problems; taught at the University of Maryland, College Park * A.F.K. Organski – developed power transition theory in his 1958 book ''World Politics'' * Norman Ornstein - American political theorist; American Enterprise Institute (AEI) resident scholar * Elinor Ostrom – specialist on common pool resources; winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics

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* Thomas Pangle – political theorist at

* Michael Parenti – political scientist and author * Vilfredo Pareto * W. Robert Parks – former President of Iowa State University * Gianfranco Pasquino – Italian political scientist; electoral systems, comparative politics * Tiago C. Peixoto - Brazilian political scientist in e-democracy and participatory democracy * Armand Peschard-Sverdrup - U.S.-Mexico binational relations expert * Sergei M. Plekhanov – Russia relations expert * Dianne Pinderhughes – scholar of race and gender inequality & public policy, former

president * Nelson W. Polsby – American politics scholar * Samuel L. Popkin – early expert on rational choice theory * Karl Popper – theorist, originated the open society theory * Emilia Justyna Powell - Polish-American political scientist known for her expertise on international dispute resolution, the Islamic legal tradition, Islamic international law, and Islamic constitutionalism * Jewel Prestage – first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in political science, former Dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Southern University * Adam Przeworski – Democratic transitions theorist, author of ''Democracy and Development''; member of the September Group * Robert D. Putnam – social capital theorist, author of ''Bowling Alone''

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* Douglas W. Rae – equality theorist * Vicky Randall - scholar of political science and gender * Mahesh Rangarajan – Indian political analyst and researcher with a focus on contemporary Indian politics and the politics of wildlife conservation in India * John Rawls – political philosopher * Dan Reiter – political scientist, specialized on military conflicts and war; professor at

; author of ''How Wars End'' * R. A. W. Rhodes – public administration scholar, pioneer of the study of policy networks in British government * Condoleezza Rice – former National Security Advisor (United States), National Security Advisor; former United States Secretary of State, Secretary of State; professor at

* Floyd M. Riddick – Parliamentarian of the United States Senate from 1964 to 1974, and developer of Riddick's Senate procedure * William H. Riker – 20th-century political scientist who applied

to political science * Patrick T. Riley – political theorist and Immanuel Kant, Kant scholar * Pearl T. Robinson - American professor of political science at

* David Rohde – Congress scholar * Stein Rokkan – expert on political parties and movements, founder of the Institute for Comparative Politics * Richard Rose (political scientist), Richard Rose – American political scientist, Professor of Politics at the University of Aberdeen * Richard Rosecrance – international relations and political economy expert * Clinton Rossiter – American government and constitutional history theorist * Susanne Hoeber Rudolph – scholar of political economy and political economy, former

president * Irene S. Rubin – Emerita at Northern Illinois University focusing on interview methodology and public budgeting in American government * John Ruggie – international relations theorist, social constructivist

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* Larry Sabato – University of Virginia professor, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, and popular political analyst * Scott Sagan – Stanford professor and notable critic of deterrence theory * Slobodan Samardžić – research includes political ideas and institutions, federalism, constitutionalism, and European Union * David Samuels (political scientist), David Samuels – comparativist scholar of Brazilian politics and political institutions * Eliz Sanasarian - professor of

at the University of Southern California * Virginia Sapiro - American political psychologist * Austin Sarat – public law specialist * Giovanni Sartori – comparativist, expert on constitutional theory and party systems * Elmer Eric Schattschneider, E.E. Schattschneider – early political parties expert, author of ''Party Government'' and ''The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America'' * Steven Schier – specialist in American Politics * Warner R. Schilling – specialist in international relations and military technology * Kay Lehman Schlozman - J. Joseph Moakley Professor of political science at Boston College and an expert in American political participation and gender and politics * Vivien A. Schmidt - Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration Professor of International Relations in the Pardee School of Global Studies and professor of political science at Boston University * Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey - professor in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science * Victoria Schuck - Professor of Political Science who spent much of her career (1940-1976) at Mount Holyoke College * Ekaterina Schulmann - associate professor of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and legal specialist * Gesine Schwan – political scientist, president of the Viadrina European University, and nominated twice as a candidate for the President of Germany, federal presidential elections of Germany * James C. Scott – political economist, Southeast Asia area specialist * Hossein Seifzadeh – Iranian Professor of Political Science at University of Tehran; expert on strategic and security issues in the Middle East * Mitchell A. Seligson – Centennial Professor of Political Science

; founder of Latin American Public Opinion Project and AmericasBarometer * Donna Shalala – former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services * Jim Sidanius – American political scientist * Matthew Soberg Shugart – scholar of constitutional design and electoral systems * Yekaterina Shulman – scholar specializing in lawmaking * Beth Simmons – international relations scholar focusing on human rights * Herbert A. Simon – Nobel Prize-winning professor at Carnegie Mellon; a founder of artificial intelligence research; received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago * Valeria Sinclair-Chapman – studies American political institutions, the representation of minority groups in the United States Congress, and minority political participation * Theda Skocpol – comparative sociologist; former president of American Political Science Association,

* Stephen Skowronek – presidency and American political development scholar (Yale University) * Anne-Marie Slaughter – scholar of international relations, former president of the American Society of International Law * Jean Edward Smith – political economist, biographer, international relations, constitutional law * Rogers Smith – Pulitzer Prize finalist, American politics expert at the University of Pennsylvania * Steven S. Smith – American politics, congressional politics, Russian politics; Director, Weidenbaum Center * Peverill Squire – Americanist * Allison Stanger - American political scientist and the Russell J. Leng '60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at

* Michael Steed – British political scientist, developed the concept of "Steed swing" as distinct from "Butler swing" * Alfred Stepan – comparativist, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University * Zeev Sternhell – theorist, political historian of political ideology * John G. Stoessinger – international relations theorist, author of ''The Might of Nations: World Politics in our Time'' * Donald E. Stokes – former Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton; expert on elections * Susan Stokes - Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science department of the University of Chicago and the faculty director of the Chicago Center on Democracy * Herbert Storing – American politics expert * Susan Strange – British expert in international relations; taught at the London School of Economics * Dara Strolovitch – studies the politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the context of intersectional societal inequality * Carol Miller Swain, Carol Swain – Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University; expert on immigration and race * Stephen Szabo is an American political scientist and educator who specializes in foreign policy. * Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila a Nigerian political scientist, author of The Rise and Fall of Kano Peoples Party, Secretary-General People's Redemption Party 1980–1983, Campaign Manager of Nigerian People's Party -1983

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* Rein Taagepera – comparative literature, comparativist, expert on electoral systems and history of government * Colin Talbot – Chair of Government at the

; adviser to various Parliamentary Committees of the United Kingdom * Marco Tarchi – professor at University of Florence, right-wing militant and creator of Nouvelle Droite * Katherine Tate - Professor of Political Science at Brown University * Merze Tate - international relations expert and first African-American woman to attend

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and receive a Ph.D. in government from

* Sally Terry - political science professor at

from 1975 until her retirement in 2002 * Dennis Frank Thompson, Dennis Thompson – political theorist at

* Marianne Thyrring * J. Ann Tickner – feminist international relations theorist and current president of the International Studies Association (ISA) * Virginia Tilley – specialist on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict * Charles Tilly – professor at

, his work includes contentious politics and evolution of modern states * Herbert Tingsten – professor of political science at Stockholm University * Jeanne Theoharis - Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College. * Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay - Canadian political scientist, former academic administrator, senior academic administrator, and an expert on Kashmir and India-Pakistan * George Tsebelis – game theorist notable for his general theory of veto players and for describing the Robinson Crusoe fallacy * Tijjani Muhammad Bande - Nigerian political scientist permanent representative of Nigeria to the UN and former president of UNGA

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* Patrick Utomi - political economist

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* Stephen Van Evera – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT international relations expert, known for proposing the Offense-Defense theory * Tatu Vanhanen – democratization and ethnic nepotism * Sarojini Varadappan - Indian social worker who earned her doctorate, PhD at the age of 80 * Sidney Verba - American political scientist, librarian and library administrator * Mieke Verloo - Professor of

and inequality issues at Radboud University * Eric Voegelin – in his major work, ''Order and History'' in five volumes, he rejected the notion that political science should become a positivistic social science * Margaret Vogt - Nigerian diplomat and political scientist who served as Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peace-building Office in the Central African Republic * Leah Vosko – professor at York University

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* Helen Wallace – international relations specialist * Denise Walsh – studies the relationship between women's rights and political inclusion and level of democracy * Stephen Walt – international relations specialist * Kenneth N. Waltz – founder of the neorealist international relations school * Michael Walzer – international relations, just war theory * John Wanna – John Bunting (diplomat), Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government * Georgina Waylen – comparative politics, political economy, and gender * Linda Weiss - professor of

at the University of Sydney * Patricia A. Weitsman – international relations scholar, alliance theory * S. Laurel Weldon - Canadian and American political scientist and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University * Alexander Wendt – social constructivism proponent * John Henry Whyte – specialist in Northern Irish politics * Aaron Wildavsky – author of ''Risk and Culture'' * Bruce A. Williams – specialist in American politics * Danny Williams (Canadian politician), Danny Williams – Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador * James Q. Wilson – former President of the

* Woodrow Wilson – former Professor of Politics at Princeton University and former US President * William Wohlforth – international relations scholar * Arnold Wolfers – international relations scholar, classical realism * Elisabeth Jean Wood – studies sexual violence during war, the emergence of political insurgencies and individuals' participation in them, and democratization * Ngaire Woods – founding dean of the Blavatnik School of Government * Susan L. Woodward – professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

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* Atilla Yayla – Professor of Politics, Political Economy and Political Philosophy at Gazi University in Turkey; president of the Association for Liberal Thinking * Yelyzaveta Yasko - Ukrainians, Ukrainian political scientist and politician who is a Verkhovna Rada, member of the Ukrainian Parliament * M. Crawford Young – comparativist, Africa scholar

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* Fareed Zakaria – international relations expert * John Zaller – author of ''The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion''; at UCLA * Elizabeth Zechmeister – comparativist at

, Latin American politics and public opinion expert, Director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project, Latin America Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) * Ina Zhupa - Albanian political scientist who studies Democratization and Values of Albanian Society

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