List of political theorists
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This is a list of notable political theorists. See the list of political scientists for those who study politics using the scientific method.
A political theorist is someone who engages in political theory, the activity of constructing and evaluating theories of politics. Political philosophy is one, but only one, of the many species of political theory.
[edit] Notable historic political theorists
- Aristotle
- John Austin
- Frederic Bastiat
- John C. Calhoun
- Jeremy Bentham
- Jean Bodin
- Edmund Burke
- Frederick Engels
- Hugo Grotius
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Johann Gottfried von Herder
- Thomas Hobbes
- Immanuel Kant
- John Locke
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Karl Marx
- John Stuart Mill
- John Milton
- Gustave de Molinari
- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
- Thomas More
- Thomas Paine
- Plato
- Samuel Pufendorf
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John of Salisbury
- Baruch Spinoza
- Lysander Spooner
- Alexis de Tocqueville
[edit] Twentieth-century political theorists
- Bruce Ackerman
- Theodor Adorno
- Giorgio Agamben
- Tariq Ali
- Gabriel Almond
- Louis Althusser
- Hannah Arendt
- Raymond Aron
- Benjamin Barber
- Ernest Barker
- Robert N. Bellah
- Seyla Benhabib
- Walter Benjamin
- Isaiah Berlin
- Hans T. Blokland
- Allan Bloom
- Norberto Bobbio
- Stephen Bronner
- Wendy Brown
- James Burnham
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Noam Chomsky
- Tony Cliff
- G. D. H. Cole
- William E. Connolly
- Drucilla Cornell
- Joseph Cropsey
- Robert Dahl
- Fred Dallmayr
- John Dewey
- Raya Dunayevskaya
- John Dunn
- Ronald Dworkin
- David Easton
- Frantz Fanon
- Richard E. Flathman
- Michel Foucault
- Nancy Fraser
- David D. Friedman
- Erich Fromm
- Carl Friedrich
- William Galston
- Emma Goldman
- Antonio Gramsci
- Che Guevara
- Alma Guillermoprieto
- Amy Gutmann
- Jürgen Habermas
- Clive Hamilton
- Michael Hardt
- Louis Hartz
- Friedrich Hayek
- David Held
- Paul Hirst
- L. T. Hobhouse
- John Holloway
- Bonnie Honig
- Jeffrey C. Isaac
- C.L.R. James
- Jean Jaurès
- Leo Jogiches
- V. O. Key, Jr.
- Russell Kirk
- Leszek Kołakowski
- Will Kymlicka
- Ernesto Laclau
- Harold J. Laski
- Harold D. Lasswell
- Henri Lefebvre
- Claude Lefort
- Vladimir Lenin
- Theodore J. Lowi
- Steven Lukes
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Dwight Macdonald
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- C. B. Macpherson
- Jane Mansbridge
- Harvey Mansfield
- Herbert Marcuse
- Uday Mehta
- David Miller
- Chantal Mouffe
- Antonio Negri
- Saul Newman
- Anne Norton
- Robert Nozick
- Martha Nussbaum
- Michael Oakeshott
- Thomas Pangle
- Carole Pateman
- Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
- John Plamenatz
- J.G.A. Pocock
- G. Bingham Powell
- Robert D. Putnam
- John Rawls
- Joseph Raz
- Murray Rothbard
- Nancy Rosenblum
- Stephen Salkever
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Mario Savio
- Carl Schmitt
- James C. Scott
- Judith N. Shklar
- Leo Strauss
- Joseph Schumpeter
- Charles Taylor
- Leslie Paul Thiele
- Leon Trotsky
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger
- Eric Voegelin
- Graham Wallas
- Michael Walzer
- Stephen L. Wasby
- Beatrice Webb
- Sidney Webb
- Simone Weil
- Sheldon Wolin
- Iris Marion Young
- Howard Zinn
