List of political scientists

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This is a list of notable political scientists. See the list of political theorists for those who study political theory. See also political science.

A

Alan Abramowitz – expert in American politics, political parties, ideological realignment, elections, and voting behavior; professor at Emory University
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
Ambedkar – jurist, economist and Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of India
William Anderson – 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

B

Fatih Baja – Gar Yunis University teacher and member of the National Transitional Council in charge of political affairs
Moniz Bandeira – Brazilian writer, professor, political scientist, historian and poet
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 Vanderbilt University
Gad Barzilai – Law and Politics, Human Rights and Politics, Communities and Law at University of Washington
Richard K. Betts – 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, Berkeley; known for his work on governance
Thomas A. Birkland – author of Lessons of Disaster
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
Zbigniew Brzezinski – Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman; served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981; in September 2007 during a speech on the Iraq war, Obama introduced Brzezinski as "one of our most outstanding thinkers"
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita – pioneering game theorist with applications to international relations, author of selectorate theory, seminal book The War Trap
Ralph Bunche – American political scientist and diplomat; received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine; first person of color to win
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

C

Ira Carmen – 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's Human Rights Committee
George Catlin (1896–1979) – English political scientist and philosopher; strong proponent of Anglo-America cooperation; worked for many years as a professor at Cornell University
Partha Chatterjee – Indian postcolonial critic, political and social scientist
Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri – international relations, Indology at Institute of Commonwealth Studies
John Coakley – specialist in ethnic conflict and Irish politics
Benjamin Cohen – leader in the field of international political economy
Stephen P. Cohen – Middle East specialist
James Smoot Coleman – early Africanist, founded the UCLA African Studies Center
Josep Colomer – institutionalist, comparativist, and game theorist scholar
Marquis de Condorcet – 18th-century mathematician and philosopher who contributed the often used "Condorcet criterion" and devised the concept of a Condorcet method
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 – voting systems expert, designed "Coombs' method"
Philip Cowley – author of Revolts and Rebellions

D

Robert A. Dahl – American politics specialist, author of On Democracy
Jouke de Vries – Frisian politician and professor at the university of Leiden
Ronald Deibert – Canadian political scientist and founder and director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto
Daniel Deudney – writer and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University; author of Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village
Dan Reiter – political scientist, specialized on military conflicts and war; Professor at Emory University; author of How Wars End
Karl Deutsch – political scientist, focused on political communication
Larry Diamond – comparative democratization specialist; professor at Stanford University
Thomas Diez – Chair in International Relations at the University of Birmingham
John DiIulio – American politics expert at the University of Pennsylvania
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (also known as Lewis Carroll) – author of Alice in Wonderland and professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford; devised Dodgson's method of voting
Robert Donaldson – professor at University of Tulsa and specialist in US/Russian foreign policy
Anthony Downs – has contributed to democratic theory, elections studies
Donald Downs – professor at University of Wisconsin; researcher for Independent Institute
Michael W. Doyle – international relations theorist, author of Empires
Daniel Drezner – professor at Tufts University, specializing in international politics
Murray Dry – professor at Middlebury College, specializing in constitutional law
John Dryzek – professor at the Australian National University, specializing in deliberative democracy and environmental politics
John Dunn – political theorist at the University of Cambridge
Maurice Duverger – French lawyer and sociologist responsible for Duverger's law
Rand Dyck – Canadian politics expert and professor at Carleton University
Thomas R. Dye – elite theory vs. pluralism; author of The Irony of Democracy and Who's Running America?

E

David Easton – originator of systemic theory
Daniel J. Elazar – American federalism and political culture scholar, founder of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, political science professor at Bar Ilan (Israel) and Temple University
Jean Bethke Elshtain – American political philosopher focusing on gender, ethics, American democracy, and international relations
Jon Elster – Norwegian social and political theorist authored works in the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory and a notable proponent of Analytical Marxism
Cynthia Enloe – international relations scholar focusing on Feminism in international relations, editor for such scholarly journals as Signs and the International Feminist Journal of Politics

F

Amir Farmanesh – Iran studies expert; Opinion polling in difficult environments
James D. Fearon
Peter D. Feaver – international security expert
David Fellman – Constitutional scholar
Richard Fenno – Congress scholar, author of Home Style: House Members in their Districts
Thomas Ferguson – politics and economics
Samuel Finer – academic and author on political science and history of government
Norman Finkelstein – author on political science, notable for The Holocaust Industry
Martha Finnemore – international relations and international organizations scholar
Morris P. Fiorina – American politics; proposed retrospective vote theory
Peter Fishburn – operations analysis and probability theory expert
Keith Fitzgerald – immigration politics expert
James H. Fowler – expert on political participation, the evolution of cooperation, and social network theory (UCSD)
Daniel P. Franklin – American politics; politics of the presidency and Politics and Film
Annette Baker Fox – international relations scholar
William T. R. Fox – international relations theorist, coiner of the term "superpower"
Ernst Fraenkel
Francis Fukuyama – international political theory and biopolitics
Archon Fung

G

Scott Gates – specialist in international relations
Anthony Giddens – political sociologist originator of the Third Way
Robert Gilpin – international political economy specialist
Benjamin Ginsberg – professor at Johns Hopkins University focusing on American politics
Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson – Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland focusing on political theory
Sheldon Goldman – expert on American federal courts; professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
David F. Gordon – political risk specialist, former US Director of Policy Planning
Harold Foote Gosnell – research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties in political science
Colin Gray – international security
Donald Green – Professor of Political Science at Columbia University focusing on field experiments in American politics
Ted Robert Gurr – specialist on conflict and violence
Amy Gutmann – political theory expert; President of the University of Pennsylvania (2004–present)

H

Jacob Hacker – Professor of Political Science at Yale University
Harry Harding – China specialist
Thomas Hare – devised single transferable vote (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
Colin Hay – influential British political scientist
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 – aide to John F. Kennedy, Columbia University professor, and prolific author
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 – pioneered political science models for assessing ethnic conflict
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

I

Kancha Ilaiah – Dalit scholar and social scientist
Ronald Inglehart – professor at the University of Michigan; founder of the World Values Survey

J

David J. Jackson - Entertainment/celebrity and politics expert
Gary Jacobson – Constitutional law expert
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

K

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 – political theorist; 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

L

Guy Laforest – liberalism (John Locke) scholar; Quebec and Canadian politics specialist
Harold Lasswell – political communications, pioneered early efforts to establish the policy sciences and influential contributor to the Stages Heuristic
Jack Layton – former leader of the 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
Margaret Levi – scholar of comparative political economy, labor politics, democratic theory, former American Political Science Association president
Carl Levy – Goldsmith's College, University of London
Robert C. Lieberman – scholar of American politics and provost of Johns Hopkins University
Arend Lijphart – originator of consociationalism
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 Stanford University
Ramon Llull – discoverer of Condorcet Criterion and Borda Count
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

M

Niccolò Machiavelli – considered the originator of historically based political science; author of The Prince
Jane Mansbridge – scholar of social movements, gender, and democratic engagement (Harvard University), former American Political Science Association president
Harvey C. Mansfield – political philosophy (Harvard University)
Zeev Maoz – Arab-Israeli Conflict and international relations expert
Jose M. Maravall – political economist
Helen Margetts – Director of the Oxford Internet Institute
David Marsh – influential British political scientist
Juraj Marusiak – Slovak expert for Central and Eastern Europe
David R. Mayhew – U.S. legislative behavior and political parties expert
James McAllister – international affairs
John McCormick – specialist in European Union politics
Michael McFaul – Russia specialist, professor and director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University
John McGarry – ethnic conflict specialist
John Mearsheimer – international relations theorist and national security expert
Samuel Merrill III – voting behavior and party competition
George Michael – specialist in right-wing extremism
Peter Middlebrook – political economist specialising in transition economies
David Miller – political philosopher, specialized in theories of social justice
Charles Mills – political philosopher specialising in race relations; author of The Racial Contract
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
Michael Munger – trained as an economist, chair of political science at Duke University, running for governor of North Carolina as a Libertarian
Clark A. Murdock – Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies

N

Arthur Naftalin – specialist in American politics and former Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Amrita Narlikar – President of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies and former Director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Rising Powers
Antonio Negri
Franz Leopold Neumann – known for analysis of National Socialism
David Nolan – founder of the United States Libertarian Party
Douglass North – Nobel laureate
Pippa Norris – Harvard comparative political scientist
Philip Norton – British politics expert
Joseph Nye – "soft power" international security specialist; Kennedy School Dean

O

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
Elinor Ostrom – specialist on common pool resources; winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics

P

Thomas Pangle – political theorist at University of Texas at Austin
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
Gleb Pavlovsky – Russian political scientist
Sergei M. Plekhanov – Russia relations expert
Dianne Pinderhughes – scholar of race and gender inequality & public policy, former American Political Science Association president
Nelson W. Polsby – American politics scholar
Samuel L. Popkin – early expert on rational choice theory
Karl Popper – theorist, originated the open society theory
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

R

Douglas W. Rae – equality theorist
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
R. A. W. Rhodes – public administration scholar, pioneer of the study of policy networks in British government
Condoleezza Rice – former National Security Advisor; former Secretary of State; professor at Stanford University
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 game theory to political science
Patrick T. Riley – political theorist and Kant scholar
David Rohde – Congress scholar
Stein Rokkan – expert on political parties and movements, founder of the Institute for Comparative Politics
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 American Political Science Association president
John Ruggie – international relations theorist, social constructivist

S

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 – 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
Warner R. Schilling – specialist in international relations and military technology
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; expert on strategic and security issues in the Middle East
Mitchell A. Seligson – Centennial Professor of Political Science Vanderbilt University; founder of Latin American Public Opinion Project and AmericasBarometer
Donna Shalala – former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
Matthew Soberg Shugart – scholar of constitutional design and electoral systems
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
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
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
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 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
Carol Swain – Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University; expert on immigration and race

T

Rein Taagepera – comparativist, expert on electoral systems and history of government
Colin Talbot – Chair of Government at the University of Manchester; adviser to various Parliamentary Committees of the United Kingdom
Marco Tarchi – professor at University of Florence, right-wing militant and creator of Nouvelle Droite
Dennis Thompson – political theorist at Harvard University
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 Columbia University, his work includes contentious politics and evolution of modern states
Herbert Tingsten – professor of political science at Stockholm University
George Tsebelis – game theorist notable for his general theory of veto players and for describing the Robinson Crusoe fallacy

V

Stephen Van Evera – MIT international relations expert, known for proposing the Offense-Defense theory
Tatu Vanhanen – democratization and ethnic nepotism
Sidney Verba
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

W

Helen Wallace – international relations specialist
Stephen Walt – international relations specialist
Kenneth N. Waltz – founder of the neorealist international relations school
Michael Walzer – international relations, just war theory
Patricia A. Weitsman – international relations scholar, alliance theory
Alexander Wendt – social constructivism proponent
Darrell M. West – specialist in electronic government, Brookings Institution director of Governance Studies
John Henry Whyte – specialist in Northern Irish politics
Aaron Wildavsky – author of Risk and Culture
Bruce A. Williams – specialist in American politics
Danny Williams – Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
James Q. Wilson – former President of the American Political Science Association
Woodrow Wilson – former Professor of Politics at Princeton University and former US President
William Wohlforth – international relations scholar
Ngaire Woods - founding dean of the Blavatnik School of Government
Susan L. Woodward – professor at the graduate program at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Y

Atilla Yayla – Professor of Politics, Political Economy and Political Philosophy at Gazi University in Turkey; president of the Association for Liberal Thinking
M. Crawford Young – comparativist, Africa scholar

Z

Fareed Zakaria – international relations expert
John Zaller – author of The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion; at UCLA

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