List of political scientists
This is a list of notable political scientists. See the list of political theorists for those who study political theory.
See also Political Science.
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Notable political scientists
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- Alan Abramowitz - Expert in American politics, political parties, ideological realignment, elections, and voting behavior.
- David Adamany - Public law specialist and President of Temple University
- John Aldrich - Political parties expert at Duke University, author of Why Parties?
- Graham Allison - Early proponent of the bureaucratic politics model, author of Essence of Decision, national security specialist, former Dean of Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
- Gabriel A. Almond - Originator of the culturist movement in Comparative Politics.
- Gar Alperovitz - political economist
- Nayef Al-Rodhan - philosopher, neuroscientist and geostrategist, and author of Sustainable history and the dignity of man, Emotional Amoral Egoism and Symbiotic Realism
- Ambedkar - Jurist, Economist and Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of India
- William Anderson (political scientist) - Specialist in public administration
- Robert Axelrod - Expert on game theory and complexity theory, wrote extensively on the Prisoner's Dilemma, former president of American Political Science Association.
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- Fatih Baja - Gar Yunis University teacher and member of the National Transitional Council in charge of political affairs.
- Benjamin Barber - proponent of participatory democracy and local governance teaching at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland College Park.
- James David Barber - developed a classification system of the personality types of American presidents, successfully predicted Richard Nixon's resignation from the office of the president
- Stephen Barber - Noted for his work on political strategy and political economy, author of Political Strategy
- 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.
- Larry Bartels - Democracy and voting expert at Princeton University.
- Gad Barzilai - Law and Politics, Human Rights and Politics, Communities and Law at University of Washington .
- Duncan Black - Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson.
- Hans T. Blokland - Author of Freedom and Culture in Western Society and Modernization and its political consequences.
- Jean Blondel - Comparative politics at University of Siena, emeritus at European University Institute.
- Jean-Charles de Borda - 18th century mathematician who devised the Borda count.
- Steven Brams - Expert on voting systems.
- Ahron Bregman - Expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Ian Bremmer - Political risk specialist.
- Stephen Brooks - International relations scholar.
- Robert X. Browning - Specialist in American politics and chief archivist for C-SPAN
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - Pioneering game theorist with applications to international relations, author of selectorate theory, seminal book The War Trap.
- Walter Dean Burnham - Expert in the field of realigning elections, emeritus at University of Texas at Austin.
- David Butler, pioneer of modern British political science, invented the concept of swing.
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Christopher Mwila - Paglory College of Education - St. Bonaventure College. "Globalization and its impact on the State"
- Clyde Coombs - Voting systems expert, designed "Coombs' method"
- Philip Cowley - Author of Revolts and Rebellions.
- Ralph W. Conant - Author of The Prospects for Revolution and Toward a More Perfect Union: The Governance of Metropolitan America.
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- 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 - Specialist in nationalism, European integration and regionalism
- Edmond Keller - Specialist in African politics
- Willmoore Kendall, noted political theorist and teacher of William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Robert O. Keohane - Interdependence theory author.
- Ben Kerkvliet - Specialist in Comparative politics
- Cornelius Kerwin - President of American University
- V.O. Key, Jr. - Elections, parties and public opinion scholar.
- Gary King - Professor at Harvard, political methodologist.
- John W. Kingdon - Specialist in American politics
- Grayson L. Kirk - Specialist in international relations and President of Columbia University
- 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 Stanford University.
- Michael Krassa - Elections, social context, architecture and society. Lobbyist, consultant, political sociologist and Chair of Human Dimensions of Environmental Systems department at University of Illinois at Urbana.
- Oskar Krejčí - Theory of international relations, elections and political psychology, former advisor to two Czechoslovak premieres.
- James Kurth
- Will Kymlicka - Originated the theoretical foundations of multiculturalism.
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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.
- Ismail Salami - Iranian Middle East expert
- Slobodan Samardžić - Research includes political ideas and institutions, federalism, constitutionalism, and European Union.
- David Samuels - Comparativist scholar of Brazilian politics and political institutions.
- Austin Sarat - Public law specialist
- Giovanni Sartori - Comparativist, expert on constitutional theory and party systems; author of Parties and Party Systems.
- E.E. Schattschneider - Early political parties expert, author of Party Government and The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America
- Cliff Schecter, political commentator and operative
- Steven Schier - Specialist in American Politics
- Gesine Schwan – Political scientist, president of the Viadrina European University, and nominated twice as a candidate for the 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 and expert on strategic and security issues in the Middle East
- Mitchell A. Seligson - Centennial Professor of Political Science Vanderbilt University and founder of Latin American Public Opinion Project and AmericasBarometer
- Donna Shalala - Former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Beth Simmons - Prominent international relations scholar focusing on human rights.
- Theda Skocpol - Comparative sociologist, former president of American Political Science Association, (Harvard University)
- 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.
- Matthew Soberg Shugart - Scholar of constitutional design and electoral systems.
- Daniel Šmihula - Specialist for international and European law and security studies (Institute of Political Science of SAS)
- 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
- Herbert Simon - Nobel Prize winning professor at Carnegie Mellon. A founder of artificial intelligence research, he received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago
- Peverill Squire - Americanist
- Michael Steed - British political scientist, developed the concept of "Steed swing" as distinct from "Butler swing"
- Alfred Stepan - Comaparativist, 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 Stokes -- Former Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, expert on elections.
- Herbert Storing - American politics expert.
- Susan Strange - British expert in international relations, taught at the London School of Economics
- Surain Subramaniam - professor and prolific author, realist school of international relations
- Carol Swain - Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University, expert of immigration and race.
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Hazir Tamourian,Middle East political analyst: moderate, thorough and prophetic voice
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- Stephen Van Evera - MIT international relations expert, known for proposing Offense-Defense theory
- Sidney Verba
- Eric Voegelin - Major work, "Order and History" in five volumes, he rejected the notion that political science should become a positivistic social science.
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See also