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.
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See also Political Science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
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- Alan AbramowitzAlan AbramowitzAlan I. Abramowitz is an American political scientist and author, known for his research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties in political science....
- Expert in American politics, political parties, ideological realignment, elections, and voting behavior. - David AdamanyDavid AdamanyDavid Adamany was Temple University's eighth president, and the 8th president of Wayne State University. One of Wayne State University's libraries, David Adamany Undergraduate Library, was his creation....
- Public law specialist and President of Temple UniversityTemple UniversityTemple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional... - John AldrichJohn AldrichJohn Aldrich is an American political scientist and author, known for his research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties, and on formal theory and methodology in political science....
- Political parties expert at Duke UniversityDuke UniversityDuke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, author of Why Parties? - Graham Allison - Early proponent of the bureaucratic politics model, author of Essence of DecisionEssence of DecisionEssence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis is an analysis, by political scientist Graham T. Allison, of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Allison used the crisis as a case study for future studies into governmental decision-making. The book became the founding study of the John F...
, national securityNational securityNational security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power. The concept developed mostly in the United States of America after World War II...
specialist, former Dean of Kennedy School of Government at Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. - Gabriel A. Almond - Originator of the culturist movement in Comparative PoliticsComparative politicsComparative politics is a subfield of political science, characterized by an empirical approach based on the comparative method. Arend Lijphart argues that comparative politics does not have a substantive focus in itself, but rather a methodological one: it focuses on "the how but does not specify...
. - Gar AlperovitzGar AlperovitzGar Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Government and Politics. He is a former Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; a founding Fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics; a Fellow at the Institute for Policy...
- political economist - Nayef Al-RodhanNayef Al-RodhanNayef Al-Rodhan,M.D., Ph.D, is a philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author. He is a Senior Member of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom., Senior Scholar in Geostrategy and Director of the Programme on the Geopolitics of Globalisation and Transnational...
- philosopher, neuroscientist and geostrategist, and author of Sustainable history and the dignity of man, Emotional Amoral Egoism and Symbiotic Realism - AmbedkarB. R. AmbedkarBhimrao Ramji Ambedkar , popularly also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, political leader, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, a revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of independent India. He was also the Chairman...
- Jurist, Economist and Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of IndiaConstitution of IndiaThe Constitution of India is the supreme law of India. It lays down the framework defining fundamental political principles, establishes the structure, procedures, powers, and duties of government institutions, and sets out fundamental rights, directive principles, and the duties of citizens... - William Anderson (political scientist)William Anderson (political scientist)William Anderson was a U.S. political scientist, who served on national commissions in the 1940s and 1950s....
- Specialist in public administration - Robert AxelrodRobert AxelrodRobert M. Axelrod 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 on the evolution of cooperation, which has been cited in numerous articles...
- Expert on game theoryGame theoryGame theory is a mathematical method for analyzing calculated circumstances, such as in games, where a person’s success is based upon the choices of others...
and complexity theoryComplex systemsComplex systems present problems in mathematical modelling.The equations from which complex system models are developed generally derive from statistical physics, information theory and non-linear dynamics, and represent organized but unpredictable behaviors of systems of nature that are considered...
, wrote extensively on the Prisoner's DilemmaPrisoner's dilemmaThe prisoner’s dilemma is a canonical example of a game, analyzed in game theory that shows why two individuals might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best interest to do so. It was originally framed by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher working at RAND in 1950. Albert W...
, former president of American Political Science AssociationAmerican Political Science AssociationThe American Political Science Association is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903, it publishes three academic journals...
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- Fatih Baja - Gar Yunis University teacher and member of the National Transitional CouncilNational Transitional CouncilThe National Transitional Council of Libya , sometimes known as the Transitional National Council, the Interim National Council, or the Libyan National Council,...
in charge of political affairs. - Benjamin BarberBenjamin BarberBenjamin R. Barber is an American political theorist and author perhaps best known for his 1996 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld.-Career:...
- proponent of participatory democracyParticipatory democracyParticipatory Democracy, also known as Deliberative Democracy, Direct Democracy and Real Democracy , is a process where political decisions are made directly by regular people...
and local governance teaching at the University of Maryland School of Public PolicyUniversity of Maryland School of Public PolicyThe Maryland School of Public Policy is one of 14 schools at the University of Maryland, College Park and the only policy school in the Washington, D.C.-area affiliated with a major research university....
at the University of Maryland College Park. - James David BarberJames David BarberDr. James David Barber was a political scientist whose book The Presidential Character made him famous for his classification of presidents through their worldviews...
- developed a classification system of the personality types of American presidentsPresident of the United StatesThe President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
, successfully predicted Richard NixonRichard NixonRichard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
's resignation from the office of the president - Stephen BarberStephen BarberStephen Barber is a British political scientist / political economist, and author based at London South Bank University. He is also a Senior Fellow at London Metropolitan University's Global Policy Institute. He has also worked in the European Research Forum...
- Noted for his work on political strategy and political economyPolitical economyPolitical economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. Political economy originated in moral philosophy...
, author of Political Strategy - Michael BarnettMichael BarnettMichael N. Barnett is a major constructivist scholar of international relations. His research has been in the areas of international organizations, international relations theory, and Middle Eastern politics. With Emanuel Adler, he reintroduced the concept of security community to international...
- Specialist in international relations - Thomas P.M. Barnett - security strategist
- Simion BărnuţiuSimion BarnutiuSimion Bărnuţiu was a Transylvanian-born Romanian historian, academic, philosopher, jurist, and liberal politician. A leader of the 1848 revolutionary movement of Transylvanian Romanians, he represented its Eastern Rite Catholic wing...
- Noted for his work on political strategy in Austria and Romania. - Larry BartelsLarry BartelsLarry Martin Bartels is an American political scientist.Bartels is the Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions and Shayne Chair in Public Policy and Social Science at Vanderbilt University. He is formerly the Donald E...
- DemocracyDemocracyDemocracy is generally defined as a form of government in which all adult citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Ideally, this includes equal participation in the proposal, development and passage of legislation into law...
and votingVotingVoting is a method for a group such as a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion—often following discussions, debates, or election campaigns. It is often found in democracies and republics.- Reasons for voting :...
expert at Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. - Gad BarzilaiGad BarzilaiGad Barzilai is a scholar of political science and law, famous for his work on the politics of law, human rights and communities. He is a professor of law, societies and justice, and international studies at University of Washington...
- Law and Politics, Human Rights and Politics, Communities and Law at University of WashingtonUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
. - Duncan BlackDuncan BlackDuncan Black 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 Dodgson, and was responsible for the Black electoral system, a Condorcet method whereby, in the...
- Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson. - Hans T. BloklandHans T. BloklandHans T. Blokland is a Dutch social and political theorist. Currently he is a professor at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin....
- Author of Freedom and Culture in Western Society and Modernization and its political consequences. - Jean BlondelJean BlondelJean Blondel is a French political scientist specialising in comparative politics. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the European University Institute in Florence, and visiting professor at the University of Siena....
- Comparative politics at University of SienaUniversity of SienaThe University of Siena in Siena, Tuscany is one of the oldest and first publicly funded universities in Italy. Originally called Studium Senese, the University of Siena was founded in 1240. The University has around 20,000 students, nearly half of Siena's total population of around 54,000...
, emeritus at European University InstituteEuropean University InstituteThe European University Institute ' in Florence is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute established by European Union member states to contribute to cultural and scientific development in the social sciences, in a European perspective...
. - Jean-Charles de BordaJean-Charles de BordaJean-Charles, chevalier de Borda was a French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor.-Life history:...
- 18th century mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
who devised the Borda countBorda countThe Borda count is a single-winner election method in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. The Borda count determines the winner of an election by giving each candidate a certain number of points corresponding to the position in which he or she is ranked by each voter. Once all...
. - Steven BramsSteven BramsSteven J. Brams is a game theorist and political scientist at the New York University Department of Politics. Brams is best known for using the techniques of game theory and public choice to research voting systems and fair division. He is one of the independent discoverers of approval voting...
- Expert on voting systems. - Ahron BregmanAhron BregmanAhron Bregman is a British-Israeli political scientist, as well as a writer and journalist, specialising on the Arab-Israeli conflict.-Biography:...
- Expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict. - Ian BremmerIan BremmerIan Bremmer is an American political scientist specializing in US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. He is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, a leading global political risk research and consulting firm...
- Political risk specialist. - Stephen Brooks - International relations scholar.
- Robert X. BrowningRobert X. BrowningRobert X. Browning is a professor at Purdue University and head of the C-SPAN archives in West Lafayette, IN. He earned his B.S. from Marquette University in 1972, his M.A. in Public Administration from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1977, his M.A. in Political Science from the University...
- Specialist in American politics and chief archivist for C-SPANC-SPANC-SPAN , an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable television network that offers coverage of federal government proceedings and other public affairs programming via its three television channels , one radio station and a group of websites that provide streaming... - Bruce Bueno de MesquitaBruce Bueno de MesquitaBruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He earned his BA degree from Queens College, New York in 1967 and then his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He specializes in...
- Pioneering game theorist with applications to international relations, author of selectorate theorySelectorate theoryThe selectorate theory is detailed in The Logic of Political Survival, authored by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita of New York University , Alastair Smith of NYU, Randolph M. Siverson of UC Davis, James D. Morrow of the University of Michigan....
, seminal book The War Trap. - Walter Dean BurnhamWalter Dean BurnhamWalter Dean Burnham is a leading expert on American elections and voting patterns. He is best known for quantitative analysis of national trends and patterns in the popular vote, in developing the "Party Systems" model, and for assembling county election returns for the whole...
- Expert in the field of realigning elections, emeritus at University of Texas at AustinUniversity of Texas at AustinThe University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
. - David Butler, pioneer of modern British political science, invented the concept of swingSwing (politics)An electoral swing analysis shows the extent of change in voter support from one election to another. It is an indicator of voter support for individual candidates or political parties, or voter preference between two or more candidates or parties...
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- George CatlinGeorge Catlin (political scientist)Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin was an English political scientist and philosopher. A strong proponent of Anglo-America cooperation, he worked for many years as a professor at Cornell University and other universities and colleges in the United States and Canada. He preached the use of a natural...
- (1896–1979) was an English political scientist and philosopher. A strong proponent of Anglo-America cooperation, he worked for many years as a professor at Cornell University. - Ira CarmenIra CarmenIra Harris "Law and Order" Carmen is an American Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he taught from 1968-2009....
- Co-founder of the social science subdiscipline of genetics and politics. - Edward Hallett CarrEdward Hallett CarrEdward Hallett "Ted" Carr CBE was a liberal and later Marxist British historian, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography....
- Noted international relations theorist. - Alfredo Castillero HoyosAlfredo Castillero HoyosAlfredo Castillero Hoyos is a Panamanian political scientist, Human Rights activist, and professor. He was a member of the United Nations's Human Rights Committee and ran for the Ombudsman Office of Panama....
- Democracy and Human Rights. Former member of the United NationsUnited NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
's Human Rights CommitteeHuman Rights CommitteeThe United Nations Human Rights Committee is a United Nations body of 18 experts that meets three times a year for four-week sessions to consider the five-yearly reports submitted by 162 UN member states on their compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,...
. - Partha ChatterjeePartha ChatterjeePartha Chatterjee is a Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial scholar. He is a multi-disciplinary scholar, with special emphasis on political science, anthropology and history. Chatterjee received Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009 for his contributions in Academics.-Education:He completed a B.A...
- Indian postcolonial critic, political and social scientist - John CoakleyJohn CoakleyJohn Coakley is an associate professor in the School of Politics & International Relations at University College Dublin. He specialises in the study of Irish politics, comparative politics and ethnic conflict...
- specialist in ethnic conflict and Irish politics - Benjamin CohenBenjamin Cohen (professor)Benjamin Jerry Cohen is the Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara...
- leader in the field of International Political Economy - Stephen P. CohenStephen P. CohenStephen P. Cohen is an American political scientist. He is an expert on Pakistan, India, and South Asian security. He is a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and an emeritus professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.-Books:* The Idea of Pakistan...
- Middle East specialist - James Smoot ColemanJames Smoot ColemanJames Smoot Coleman was an American scholar, professor and administrator in political science, but more specifically in African studies...
, early Africanist, founded the UCLA African Studies Center - Josep ColomerJosép ColomerJosep Maria Colomer is a Catalan-Spanish Professor of political science. He has published theoretical and comparative studies of voting and elections, political institutions and institutional change, in which he has used game theory and social choice theory for applied analyses...
- Institutionalist, comparativist, and game theorist scholar. - Marquis de CondorcetMarquis de CondorcetMarie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet , known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist whose Condorcet method in voting tally selects the candidate who would beat each of the other candidates in a run-off election...
- 18th century mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
and philosopher who contributed the often used Condorcet criterion and devised the concept of a Condorcet methodCondorcet methodA Condorcet method is any single-winner election method that meets the Condorcet criterion, which means the method always selects the Condorcet winner if such a candidate exists. The Condorcet winner is the candidate who would beat each of the other candidates in a run-off election.In modern...
. - David P. Conradt - West European politics, German political system
- Timothy E. CookTimothy E. CookTimothy E. Cook was an American scholar of mass communications, Professor of Journalism at Louisiana State University. He is known for his books on the interaction of politics and the media, and also as an influence on journalism research and education....
- politics and media - Satyabrata Rai ChowdhuriSatyabrata Rai ChowdhuriSatyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, FRAS is a Political Scientist, Political Historian and International Relations expert.He is presently a Senior Research Fellow in International Relations at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, U.K., and an Emeritus Professor of Political Science...
- International Relations, Indology at Institute of Commonwealth StudiesInstitute of Commonwealth StudiesThe Institute of Commonwealth Studies, abbreviated to ICS, was founded by the University of London in 1949 to promote academic study of the Commonwealth of Nations and its constituent countries. It became part of the School of Advanced Study in 1994... - Philip ConversePhilip ConversePhilip Ernest Converse is an American political scientist. He is a professor emeritus in political science at the University of Michigan, is a seminal figure in the field of public opinion. His article "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics" Philip Ernest Converse (born 1928) is an...
- Public opinion scholar, author of The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics. - Clyde CoombsClyde CoombsClyde Hamilton Coombs was an American psychologist specializing in the field of mathematical psychology. He devised a voting system, that was hence named Coombs' method....
- Voting systems expert, designed "Coombs' method" - Philip CowleyPhilip CowleyPhilip Cowley is a British political scientist and an academic at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.Within academia he is particularly notable for his analysis of Parliamentary voting behaviour in the UK House of Commons and House of Lords and secondly his opposition to a lowering...
- Author of Revolts and Rebellions. - Ralph W. ConantRalph W. ConantRalph Wendell Conant is a writer and researcher in the areas of social policy, metropolitan governance, and regional planning. Conant is also the former president of Shimer College and Unity College.-Biography:...
- Author of The Prospects for Revolution and Toward a More Perfect Union: The Governance of Metropolitan America.
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- Robert A. DahlRobert A. DahlRobert Alan Dahl , is the Sterling Professor emeritus of political science at Yale University, where he earned his Ph.D. in political science in 1940. He is past president of the American Political Science Association...
- American politics specialist, author of On Democracy (Yale University Press) - Daniel DeudneyDaniel DeudneyDaniel Deudney is an American political scientist and Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His published work is mainly in the fields of international relations and political theory, with an emphasis on geopolitics and republicanism.-Education:Deudney graduated from...
- Writer and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University; author of Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village - Karl DeutschKarl DeutschKarl Wolfgang Deutsch was a Czech social and political scientist from a German speaking family. His work focused on the study of war and peace, nationalism, co-operation and communication...
- Political scientist, focused on political communication. - Larry DiamondLarry DiamondLarry Diamond is a leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. He is presently a professor of Sociology and Political Science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative policy think tank...
- Comparative democratization specialist. Professor at Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. - Jouke de VriesJouke de VriesJouke de Vries is a professor at Leiden University in Leiden.De Vries grew up in the village of Balk in Friesland and in 1979 started his studies in political science at the University of Amsterdam. He has been working at the group Leaderships Art at the University of Leiden since 1984. De Vries...
- FrisianFrisiansThe Frisians are a Germanic ethnic group native to the coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany. They are concentrated in the Dutch provinces of Friesland and Groningen and, in Germany, East Frisia and North Frisia, that was a part of Denmark until 1864. They inhabit an area known as Frisia...
politician and professor at the university of Leiden. - Thomas DiezThomas DiezThomas Diez is 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 of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham,...
- Chair in International Relations at the University of BirminghamUniversity of BirminghamThe University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus... - John DiIulioJohn DiIulioJohn J. Dilulio Jr. is a 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. Previously, he served as the first director of the White House Office of...
- American politics expert at the University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
; first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Groups - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (also known as Lewis CarrollLewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
) - Author of Alice in Wonderland and professor of mathematics at the University of OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
; devised Dodgson's methodDodgson's methodDodgson's Method is a voting system proposed by Charles Dodgson.-Description:In Dodgson's method, each voter submits an ordered list of all candidates according to their own preference . The winner is defined to be the candidate for whom we need to perform the minimum number of pairwise swaps ...
of votingVoting systemA voting system or electoral system is a method by which voters make a choice between options, often in an election or on a policy referendum....
. - Robert DonaldsonRobert DonaldsonRobert "Bob" Donaldson was a Scottish football player. He played as a forward.Donaldson played for Airdrieonians and Blackburn Rovers before joining Newton Heath in 1892. He scored 66 goals in 147 appearances for Newton Heath. The first of these goals, scored against Blackburn Rovers on 3...
- Professor at University of TulsaUniversity of TulsaThe University of Tulsa is a private university awarding bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. It is currently ranked 75th among doctoral degree granting universities in the nation by US News and World Report and is listed as one of the "Best 366 Colleges" by...
and specialist in US/Russian foreign policy. - Anthony DownsAnthony DownsAnthony Downs is a scholar in public policy and public administration, and since 1977 is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C..-Education:...
- has contributed to democratic theory, elections studies. - Donald DownsDonald DownsDonald Alexander Downs is an American political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison known for his work on the First Amendment.Downs received his Ph.D. from the University of California - Berkeley and his B.A. from Cornell University...
- Professor at University of Wisconsin; researcher for Independent Institute - Maurice DuvergerMaurice DuvergerMaurice Duverger is a French jurist, sociologist and politician. He was born in Angoulême, Charente.Starting his career as a jurist at the University of Bordeaux, Duverger became more and more involved in political science and in 1948 founded one of the first faculties for political science in...
- French lawyerLawyerA lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
and sociologist responsible for Duverger's lawDuverger's lawIn political science, Duverger's law is a principle which asserts that a plurality rule election system tends to favor a two-party system. This is one of two hypotheses proposed by Duverger, the second stating that “the double ballot majority system and proportional representation tend to...
. - Michael W. Doyle - International Relations theorist, author of Empires.
- Daniel DreznerDaniel DreznerDaniel W. Drezner is currently a professor of international politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, the author of several books, the author of many Op-Ed pieces in major publications, a blogger, and a commentator.In 2005, he was denied tenure by the University of...
- Professor at Tufts UniversityTufts UniversityTufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
, specializing in international politics - Murray DryMurray DryMurray 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. He is perhaps most noted for having helped to compile The...
- Professor at Middlebury CollegeMiddlebury CollegeMiddlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...
, specializing in constitutional lawConstitutional lawConstitutional law is the body of law which defines the relationship of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the legislature and the judiciary.... - John DryzekJohn DryzekJohn Dryzek is Professor of Social Theory and Political Theory in Australian National University's Political Science Program in the Research School of Social Sciences.He was born in Maids Moreton, England...
- Professor at the Australian National UniversityAustralian National UniversityThe Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
, specializing in deliberative democracyDeliberative democracyDeliberative democracy is a form of democracy in which public deliberation is central to legitimate lawmaking. It adopts elements of both consensus decision-making and majority rule. Deliberative democracy differs from traditional democratic theory in that authentic deliberation, not mere...
and environmental politicsEnvironmental politicsEnvironmental politics is an academic field of study focused on three core components:The study of political theories and ideas related to the environment.The examination of the political parties and environmental social movements....
. - John DunnJohn Dunn (political scientist)John Montfort Dunn is a emeritus Professor of Political Theory at King's College, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Chiba University, Japan.-Biography:...
- Political theorist at the University of CambridgeUniversity of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
. - Rand DyckRand DyckDr. Perry Rand Dyck, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Laurentian University 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, Philosophy,...
- Canadian politics expert and professor at Carleton UniversityCarleton UniversityCarleton University is a comprehensive university located in the capital of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. The enabling legislation is The Carleton University Act, 1952, S.O. 1952. Founded as a small college in 1942, Carleton now offers over 65 programs in a diverse range of disciplines. Carleton has...
. - Thomas R. DyeThomas R. DyeThomas R. Dye is the president of the Lincoln Center for Public Service . Dye is also an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Florida State University and was formerly a McKenzie Professor of Government.-Academic background and preparation:Dye graduated from Pennsylvania State University...
- Elite theoryElitismElitism is the belief or attitude that some individuals, who form an elite — a select group of people with intellect, wealth, specialized training or experience, or other distinctive attributes — are those whose views on a matter are to be taken the most seriously or carry the most...
vs. PluralismPluralism (political theory)Classical pluralism is the view that politics and decision making are located mostly in the framework of government, but that many non-governmental groups use their resources to exert influence. The central question for classical pluralism is how power and influence is distributed in a political...
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- David EastonDavid EastonDavid Easton is a Canadian political scientist who was born in Toronto, Ontario, went to the United States in 1943, and is currently Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.He is a former President of the American Political...
- Originator of systemic theory - Daniel J. ElazarDaniel J. ElazarDaniel Judah Elazar was a professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University and Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the founder and president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.-Biography:...
- American federalism and political culture scholar, founder of the Jerusalem Center for Public AffairsJerusalem Center for Public AffairsThe Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs is a public policy think tank devoted to research and analysis of critical issues facing the Middle East. The center is located in Jerusalem, Israel...
, political science professor at Bar Ilan (Israel) and Temple UniversityTemple UniversityTemple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional... - Jean Bethke ElshtainJean Bethke Elshtain-Biography:She is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and is a contributing editor for The New Republic. She is, in addition, newly the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom at...
- American political philosopher focusing on gender, ethics, American democracy, and International RelationsInternational relationsInternational relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
. - Jon ElsterJon ElsterJon Elster is a Norwegian social and political theorist who has authored works in the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory...
- NorwegianNorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
social and political theorist authored works in the philosophy of social sciencePhilosophy of social scienceThe philosophy of social science is the study of the logic and method of the social sciences, such as sociology, anthropology and political science...
and rational choice theoryRational choice theoryRational choice theory, also known as choice theory or rational action theory, is a framework for understanding and often formally modeling social and economic behavior. It is the main theoretical paradigm in the currently-dominant school of microeconomics...
and a notable proponent of Analytical MarxismAnalytical MarxismAnalytical Marxism refers to a particular Marxist approach that was prominent amongst English-speaking philosophers and social scientists during the 1980s. It was mainly associated with the September Group of academics, so called because of their biennial September meetings to discuss common...
. - Cynthia EnloeCynthia Enloe-Biography:Born in 1938, Cynthia Enloe spent her early life on Long Island in a New York suburb. After completing her undergraduate education at Connecticut College in 1960 , she went on to earn an M.A. in 1963 and a Ph.D...
- International Relations scholar focusing on Feminism in international relationsFeminism in international relationsFeminism in international relations is a broad term given to works of those scholars who have sought to bring gender concerns into the academic study of international politics....
, editor for such scholarly journals as SignsSigns (journal)Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society is a feminist academic journal established in 1975. It is published quarterly by the University of Chicago Press. Signs publishes articles on women's studies.- See also :* Cultural studies...
and the International Feminist Journal of PoliticsInternational Feminist Journal of PoliticsInternational Feminist Journal of Politics is the only journal in the field of International Relations and International Political Economy to focus on gender issues in global politics. The journal was founded by Jan Jindy Pettman of the Australian National University Canberra. It is currently...
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- Peter D. FeaverPeter D. FeaverPeter D. Feaver is a professor of political science at Duke University and director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies. He recently returned from a sabbatical in the Bush administration, as a special advisor for strategic planning and institutional reform on the National Security...
- International security expert. - David FellmanDavid FellmanDavid Fellman was an United States law and civil liberties and advocate for academic freedom. He taught general constitutional law, administrative law and civil liberties .Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Fellman was a member of the Omaha Central High...
- Constitutional scholar - Richard FennoRichard FennoRichard F. Fenno, Jr. is an American political scientist known for his pioneering work on the U.S. Congress and its members....
- Congress scholar, author of Home Style: House Members in their Districts - Thomas FergusonThomas Ferguson (academic)Thomas Ferguson is an American political scientist and author who studies and writes on politics and economics, often within a historical perspective. He is a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a member of the advisory board for George Soros' Institute for...
- Politics and economics - Samuel FinerSamuel FinerProfessor Samuel Edward Finer was a political scientist and historian who was instrumental in advancing political studies as an academic subject in the United Kingdom, pioneering the study of UK political institutions...
- Academic and author on political science and history of government. - Norman FinkelsteinNorman FinkelsteinNorman Gary Finkelstein is an American political scientist, activist and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University...
- Author on political science, notable for The Holocaust Industry - Morris P. FiorinaMorris P. FiorinaMorris P. Fiorina is an American political scientist and co-author of the book Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America with Jeremy C. Pope , and with the help of the research assistant Samuel J Abrams.-Biography:...
American Politics. Proposed retrospective vote theory. - Peter Fishburn - Operations analysis and probability theory expert.
- Keith FitzgeraldKeith FitzgeraldKeith Fitzgerald is a former Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 69th District for two terms from 2007 to 2010.-Political career:...
- Immigration politics expert. - James H. FowlerJames H. FowlerJames H. Fowler is an American social scientist specializing in social networks, cooperation, political participation, and genopolitics...
- Expert on political participation, the evolution of cooperation, and social network theory (UCSD) - Ernst FraenkelErnst Fraenkel (political scientist)Ernst Fraenkel was a German political scientist. He was one of the founding fathers of German political science after World War II....
- Francis FukuyamaFrancis FukuyamaYoshihiro Francis Fukuyama is an American political scientist, political economist, and author. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford. Before that he served as a professor and director of the International Development program at the School of...
- International political theory and biopolitics. - Archon FungArchon FungArchon Fung is the Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and co-founder of the Transparency Policy Project...
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- Scott Gates (academic)Scott Gates (academic)Scott Gates is an American political scientist and economist. He is currently director of Peace Research Institute Oslo 's Centre for the Study of Civil War , a Norwegian Center of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway...
- Specialist in international relations - Anthony GiddensAnthony GiddensAnthony Giddens, Baron Giddens is a British 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 contributors in the field of sociology, the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29...
- Noted political sociologist originator of the Third Way. - Robert GilpinRobert GilpinRobert Gilpin is a scholar of International Political Economy and the professor emeritus of Politics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He holds the Eisenhower professorship...
- International political economy specialist. - Benjamin GinsbergBenjamin Ginsberg (political scientist)Benjamin Ginsberg is a libertarian political scientist and professor at Johns Hopkins University who is notable for his criticism of American politics in which citizens have become "marginalized as political actors" and political parties weakened while state power has grown...
- Professor at Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityThe Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
focusing on American politics. - Sheldon GoldmanSheldon GoldmanDr. Sheldon Goldman is a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of Picking Federal Judges and The Federal Courts as a Political System,...
- Expert on American federal courts, Professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst - David F. GordonDavid F. GordonDavid 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....
- Political risk specialist, former US Director of Policy Planning. - Harold Foote GosnellHarold Foote GosnellHarold Foote Gosnell was an American political scientist and author, known for his research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties in political science....
- Research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties in political science. - Colin GrayColin S. GrayColin S. Gray is a British-American strategic thinker and professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, where he is the director of the Centre for Strategic Studies. In addition, he is a Senior Associate to the National Institute for Public Policy.Gray...
- international security - Ted Robert GurrTed Robert GurrTed Robert Gurr is one of the world’s leading authorities on political conflict and instability. His book Why Men Rebel emphasized the importance of social psychological factors and ideology as root sources of political violence...
- Specialist on conflict and violence - Amy GutmannAmy GutmannAmy Gutmann is the eighth President of the University of Pennsylvania and the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Communications, and Philosophy...
- political theory expert; (2004–present) President of the University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
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- Jacob HackerJacob HackerJacob Stewart Hacker is the Director of the and Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University and has written works on social policy, health care reform, and economic insecurity in the United States...
- Professor of Political Science at Yale University. - Harry Harding - ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
specialist. - Thomas Hare - Devised Single Transferable VoteSingle transferable voteThe single transferable vote is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through preferential voting. Under STV, an elector's vote is initially allocated to his or her most preferred candidate, and then, after candidates have been either elected or eliminated, any surplus or...
(also known as Hare's method). - Jeremy HarrisJeremy HarrisJeremy Harris, born December 7, 1950 in Wilmington, Delaware, served as Mayor of Honolulu from 1994 to 2004. A biologist by training, Harris started his political career as a delegate to the 1978 Hawai'i State Constitutional Convention...
- American Politics Specialist - Michael HartMichael Hart (Oxford)Michael Hart has been Fellow in Politics at Exeter College, Oxford since 1982.His research interests include British Politics since 1880 and Modern Southern Africa. He lectures on British Politics and Government since 1900....
- British twentieth century politics specialist. - Louis HartzLouis HartzLouis Hartz was an American political scientist and influential liberal proponent of the idea of American exceptionalism....
- American author of The Liberal Tradition in America (1955). - Colin HayColin Hay (political scientist)Colin Hay is Professor of Political Analysis at the University of Sheffield. He studied Social and Political Science at Clare College, Cambridge University and moved to the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University to research his PhD under the supervision of Bob Jessop...
- influential British political scientist - Marc HetheringtonMarc HetheringtonMarc Hetherington is an American political scientist. He is a Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University.- Biography :Hetherington has taught at the University of Virginia, Princeton University, Bowdoin College, and Vanderbilt University...
- Author of Why Trust Matters and offered new participation paradigm. - Christopher J. HillChristopher J. HillChristopher John Hill, DPhil, FBA , is Director of the Centre of International Studies and Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge...
- International Relations scholar, Professor and Director of the Cambridge Centre of International Studies. - Roger HilsmanRoger HilsmanRoger Hilsman is an author and political scientist. He served as an American soldier in Merrill's Marauders and then the Office of Strategic Services in China-Burma-India Theater of World War II during World War II and as an aide and adviser to President John F. Kennedy...
- Aide TO John F. KennedyJohn F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
, Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
Professor, and prolific author. - Thomas HolbrookThomas HolbrookThomas Holbrook is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 113th District from 1995 until his resignation in October 2011.-External links:* official IL House website** * profile...
- Public Opinion and Elections Research, author Do Campaigns Matter? - Donald L. HorowitzDonald L. HorowitzDonald L. Horowitz 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 Syracuse University...
- Pioneered political science models for assessing ethnic conflict. - Michael P. HowlettMichael P. HowlettMichael Howlett BSocSci., MA, PhD is Burnaby Mountain Chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University. He specializes in public policy analysis, Canadian political economy, and Canadian resource and environmental policy...
- Canadian political economy. - Mark HuddlestonMark HuddlestonMark W. Huddleston is the 19th President of the University of New Hampshire , having been elected to that position on April 18, 2007.-Biography:...
- former President of Ohio Wesleyan UniversityOhio Wesleyan UniversityOhio Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Central Ohio residents as a nonsectarian institution, and is a member of the Ohio Five — a consortium of Ohio liberal arts colleges...
and President of the University of New HampshireUniversity of New HampshireThe University of New Hampshire is a public university in the University System of New Hampshire , United States. The main campus is in Durham, New Hampshire. An additional campus is located in Manchester. With over 15,000 students, UNH is the largest university in New Hampshire. The university is... - Samuel P. HuntingtonSamuel P. HuntingtonSamuel Phillips Huntington was an influential American political scientist who wrote highly-regarded books in a half-dozen sub-fields of political science, starting in 1957...
- Author of "Clash of CivilizationsClash of CivilizationsThe Clash of Civilizations is a theory, proposed by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world....
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- Gary JacobsonGary JacobsonGary C. Jacobson is a Professor of Politics and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1979....
- United States CongressUnited States CongressThe United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....
expert. - Robert JervisRobert JervisRobert Jervis is the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University, and has been a member of the faculty since 1980. Jervis was the recipient of the 1990 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order...
- International security specialist. - Chalmers JohnsonChalmers JohnsonChalmers Ashby Johnson was an American author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean War, was a consultant for the CIA from 1967–1973, and chaired the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1972...
- Comparative theorist. - Jason A. JohnsonJason A. JohnsonDr. Jason Adam Johnson is the author of the book Political Consultants and Campaigns: One Day to Sell. He is currently a professor of political science and communications at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio, where he teaches American politics, comparative politics, campaign management and...
- Campaign management - Loch K. JohnsonLoch K. JohnsonDr. Loch K. Johnson is Regents Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia. He is editor of the journal "Intelligence and National Security" and has written numerous books on American foreign policy. Dr. Johnson was special assistant to the chair of the Senate Select Committee House...
- United States intelligence expert. - Charles O. JonesCharles O. JonesCharles O. Jones is Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a graduate of the University of South Dakota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Guggenheim fellow...
- Specialist in American politics - Bertrand de JouvenelBertrand de JouvenelBertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins, usually known only as Bertrand de Jouvenel was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurist.-Life:...
- French political scientist. Co-founder of Mont Pelerin Society
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- Peter Katzenstein - Professor at Cornell, former president of the American Political Science Association
- Ira KatznelsonIra KatznelsonIra Katznelson is a leading American political scientist and historian, noted for his influential research on the liberal state, inequality, social knowledge, and institutions, primarily focused on the United States....
- Specialist in American and Comparative politics - Dennis KavanaghDennis KavanaghDennis Kavanagh is a British political analyst and since 1996 has been Professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool, and now Emeritus Professor. He has written extensively on post-war British politics...
- Michael Keating - Specialist in nationalism, European integration and regionalism
- Edmond KellerEdmond KellerEdmond Joseph Keller, Jr. is an American Africanist. A graduate of Louisiana State University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Keller is a professor in the political science department at UCLA. In 2008, Keller was awarded the Distinguished Africanist Award by the African Studies...
- Specialist in African politics - Willmoore KendallWillmoore KendallWillmoore Kendall was an American conservative writer and Professor of political philosophy.-Biography:Kendall was born in 1909 to a blind minister in Oklahoma. He learned to read at age two, graduated from high school at 13, from the University of Oklahoma at 18, and published his first book at 20...
, noted political theorist and teacher of William F. Buckley, Jr.William F. Buckley, Jr.William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing was noted for... - Robert O. KeohaneRobert KeohaneRobert O. Keohane is an American academic, who, following the publication of his influential book After Hegemony , became widely associated with the theory of neoliberal institutionalism in international relations...
- Interdependence theory author. - Ben KerkvlietBen KerkvlietBen Kerkvliet is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Political and Social Change, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies, Australian National University. He works across the areas of comparative politics, Southeast Asia and Asian studies...
- Specialist in Comparative politics - Cornelius Kerwin - President of American University
- V.O. Key, Jr. - Elections, parties and public opinion scholar.
- Gary KingGary King (political scientist)Gary King is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist. He is currently the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor and Director for the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.-Biography:...
- Professor at Harvard, political methodologist. - John W. KingdonJohn W. KingdonJohn Wells Kingdon is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison....
- Specialist in American politics - Grayson L. KirkGrayson L. KirkGrayson Louis Kirk was president of Columbia University during the Columbia University protests of 1968. He was also a Professor of Government, advisor to the State Department, and instrumental in the formation of the United Nations.-Early life:Kirk was born to a farmer and schoolteacher in...
- Specialist in international relations and President of Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the... - Henry KissingerHenry KissingerHeinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...
- Former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President Richard M. Nixon. - Herbert KitscheltHerbert KitscheltHerbert P. Kitschelt is a political science scholar and George V. Allen Professor of International Relations at Duke University, North Carolina. Kitschelt's key intellectual contribution is arguably his redefinition of the competitive space for political parties in Western Europe...
- author on new radical right parties - Stephen D. KrasnerStephen D. KrasnerStephen Krasner is an international relations professor at Stanford University and is the former Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State, a position he held from 2005 until April 2007 while on leave from Stanford...
- International regimes author, Director of Policy Planning under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and professor at Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. - Michael KrassaMichael KrassaMichael Krassa is the chair of "Human dimensions of Environmental Systems" and a professor in political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in the interactions between humans and their environments. His early work was on how one's neighbourhood of residence...
- 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 KrejčíOskar KrejcíOskar Krejčí is Czech political scientist, the author of approximately twenty books and more than thousand articles in the area of political science....
- Theory of international relations, elections and political psychology, former advisor to two Czechoslovak premieres. - James KurthJames KurthJames Kurth is the Claude Smith Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, where he teaches defense policy, foreign policy, and international politics. In 2004 Kurth also became the editor of Orbis, a professional journal on international relations and U.S...
- Will KymlickaWill KymlickaWill Kymlicka is a Canadian political philosopher best known for his work on multiculturalism. He is currently Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University at Kingston, and Recurrent Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies program at the...
- Originated the theoretical foundations of multiculturalism.
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- Guy LaforestGuy LaforestGuy Laforest is the director of the department of political science at the Université Laval. He was educated at Université Laval and McGill University...
- Liberalism (John Locke) scholar and Quebec and Canadian politics specialist - Harold LasswellHarold LasswellHarold Dwight Lasswell was a leading American political scientist and communications theorist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology and was a professor at Yale University in law. He was a President of the American Political Science Association and World Academy of Art and Science...
- Political communications, pioneered early efforts to establish the policy sciences and influential contributor to the Stages Heuristic - Jack LaytonJack LaytonJohn Gilbert "Jack" Layton, PC was a Canadian social democratic politician and the Leader of the Official Opposition. He was the leader of the New Democratic Party from 2003 to 2011, and previously sat on Toronto City Council, serving at times during that period as acting mayor and deputy mayor of...
- Leader of the New Democratic PartyNew Democratic PartyThe New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...
of Canada, has a Ph.D in Political Science. - Richard Ned LebowRichard Ned LebowProfessor Richard Ned Lebow is an American political scientist best known for his work in international relations and U.S. foreign policy. He is a noted constructivist and expert on strategies of conflict management, the Cold War, the politics of memory and ancient Greek politics and...
- Noted constructivist, Cold War expert, author of Tragic Vision of Politics. - Michael LeiferMichael LeiferMichael Leifer was a British International Relations scholar specialising in the politics and international relations of South East Asia...
- International Relations, South Asian Studies, London School of EconomicsLondon School of EconomicsThe London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London... - Arend LijphartArend LijphartArend d'Angremond Lijphart is a world renowned political scientist specializing in comparative politics, elections and voting systems, democratic institutions, and ethnicity and politics. He received his PhD in Political Science at Yale University in 1963, after studying at the University of...
- Originator of consociationalism. - Dan LipinskiDan LipinskiDaniel William Lipinski is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. He is a member of the Democratic Party.The district includes much of the southwest side of Chicago, along with such suburbs as Oak Lawn and Brookfield....
- US House of Representatives (IL-D, 3rd) - Juan LinzJuan LinzJuan José Linz is a Spanish sociologist and political scientist. He is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Yale University and an honorary member of the Scientific Council at the Juan March Institute...
- Democracy specialist - Seymour Martin LipsetSeymour Martin LipsetSeymour Martin Lipset was an American political sociologist, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. His major work was in the fields of political sociology, trade union organization, social stratification, public opinion, and...
- Renowned political theorist on democracy and development and parties. Taught at Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. - Ramon LlullRamon LlullRamon Llull was a Majorcan writer and philosopher, logician and tertiary Franciscan. He wrote the first major work of Catalan literature. Recently-surfaced manuscripts show him to have anticipated by several centuries prominent work on elections theory...
- Discoverer of Condorcet CriterionCondorcet criterionThe Condorcet candidate or Condorcet winner of an election is the candidate who, when compared with every other candidate, is preferred by more voters. Informally, the Condorcet winner is the person who would win a two-candidate election against each of the other candidates...
and Borda CountBorda countThe Borda count is a single-winner election method in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. The Borda count determines the winner of an election by giving each candidate a certain number of points corresponding to the position in which he or she is ranked by each voter. Once all... - Theodore Lowi - Major scholar of American politics at Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
- Ian LustickIan LustickIan Steven Lustick is an American political scientist and specialist on the modern history and politics of the Middle East.Lustick completed his Ph.D...
- State territoriality ethnic conflict and computer modelling in political science; University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
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- Niccolò MachiavelliNiccolò MachiavelliNiccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He is one of the main founders of modern political science. He was a diplomat, political philosopher, playwright, and a civil servant of the Florentine Republic...
- considered to be the originator of historically based political science. Author of The PrinceThe PrinceThe Prince is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus . But the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after... - Harvey C. Mansfield - Political philosophy (Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
) - Donald Manzullo - Congressional Representative of Illinois' 16th District.
- Zeev MaozZeev MaozZeev Maoz is a professor of Political Science and director of the International Relations Program at the University of California, Davis, as well as Distinguished Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel. He is the President of the Peace Science Society during 2007-08...
- Arab-Israeli Conflict and international relations expert - Jose M. MaravallJosé María Maravall HerreroJosé María Maravall Herrero is a Spanish academic and politician of the Spanish Socialist Party . Maravall was Spanish Minister of Education and Science between 1982 and 1988, and was elected to the Spanish Parliament in 1986, representing Valencia Province. Maravall eventually returned to...
- Political economist. - David MarshDavid Marsh (political scientist)David Marsh is a British political scientist. He is currently Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University...
- influential British political scientist - Juraj MarusiakJuraj MarusiakJuraj Marusiak PhD. is a Slovak political scientist, historian, journalist and translator of a mixed Slovak-Polish descent. He represents a moderate social- democratic stream in Slovak political thinking.- Life :Marušiak graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava...
- Slovak expert for Central and Eastern Europe - David R. MayhewDavid MayhewDavid R. Mayhew is a political scientist and Sterling Professor in the Political Science Department at Yale University. He is the author of several influential books on American politics....
- US legislative behavior and political parties expert. - John McCormickJohn McCormickJohn McCormick is Jean Monnet Chair of European Union Politics at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis , and was department chair from 2001 until 2008. He spent eight years working in the environmental movement before becoming an academic...
- specialist in European Union politics. - Michael McFaulMichael McFaulMichael Anthony McFaul is a Stanford University professor and the nominee for United States Ambassador to Russia. Prior to his nomination to the ambassadorial position, McFaul worked for the U.S. National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of Russian and...
- RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
specialist, professor and director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... - John McGarryJohn McGarryJohn McGarry is a political scientist from Northern Ireland. He was born in Belfast and grew up in Ballymena, County Antrim. He is currently Professor of Political Studies and Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario...
- Ethnic conflict specialist - John MearsheimerJohn MearsheimerJohn J. Mearsheimer is an American professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is an international relations theorist. Known for his book on offensive realism, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, more recently Mearsheimer has attracted attention for co-authoring and publishing...
- Noted international relations theorist and national security expert. - Thierry MeyssanThierry MeyssanThierry Meyssan is a French journalist and political activist.He is the author of investigations into the extreme right wing , as well as into the Catholic Church Thierry Meyssan (born 18 May 1957 in Talence, Gironde) is a French journalist and political activist.He is the author of investigations...
- Political theorist of anti-imperialism - Samuel Merrill IIISamuel Merrill IIISamuel Merrill III is a mathematician and political scientist best known for his work on alternative voting systems, voter behavior, party competition, and arbitration....
- Voting behavior and party competition. - George MichaelGeorge Michael (professor)George J. Michael is an associate professor of political science and administration of justice at The University of Virginia's College at Wise...
- specialist in right-wing extremism. - Peter MiddlebrookPeter MiddlebrookDr. Peter J. Middlebrook is the Managing Director of Geopolicity Inc., and an English political economist/Political Scientist and Emerging Markets expert specializing in fragile states, international relations and the development of Transition economies...
- political economist specialising in transition economies. - David MillerDavid Miller (political theorist)David Miller is a British political theorist. He received his BA from the University of Cambridge and his BPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford. He is currently Official Fellow and Professor in Social and Political Theory at Nuffield College, Oxford. Previous works include Social...
- Political Philosopher specialized in theories of social justice - Charles Mills- Political Philosopher specialising in race relations. Author of The Racial ContractThe Racial ContractThe Racial Contract is a book by Charles W. Mills in which Mills puts forth his political philosophy regarding the role of race in the social contract. In essence, Mills argues that the social contract is designed at its heart to promote whites over other races.-Reception:The Racial Contract was...
- Terry M. MoeTerry M. MoeTerry M. Moe is the professor of political science at Stanford University, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and a member of the Hoover Institution’s Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. Moe is a respected political scientist, an education scholar, and a bestselling...
- Specialist in American politics - Malcolm MoosMalcolm MoosMalcolm Charles Moos was an American political scientist.He received his bachelors and masters degrees in political science from the University of Minnesota. He went on to receive his doctorate, also in political science, from the University of California, Los Angeles. After receiving his Ph.D...
- Former President of the University of MinnesotaUniversity of MinnesotaThe University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557... - Andrew MoravcsikAndrew MoravcsikAndrew Moravcsik is a Professor of Politics and director of the European Union Program at Princeton University. He is known for his research on European integration, international organizations, human rights, and American and European foreign policy, for developing the theory of liberal...
- Professor at Princeton University, noted liberal IR theorist, specialist on European Union politics. - Hans MorgenthauHans MorgenthauHans Joachim Morgenthau was one of the leading twentieth-century figures in the study of international politics...
- Noted realist, international relations specialist. - James MorrowJames MorrowJames Morrow is a fiction author. A self-described "scientific humanist", his work satirises organized religion and elements of humanism and atheism....
- International relations expert and game theorist. - Michael MungerMichael MungerMichael Curtis Munger is an economist, chair of the political science department at Duke University, and was the Libertarian candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 2008....
- trained as an economist, chair of political science at Duke UniversityDuke UniversityDuke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, running for governorGovernorA governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...
of North CarolinaNorth CarolinaNorth Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
as a LibertarianLibertarian Party (United States)The Libertarian Party is the third largest and fastest growing political party in the United States. The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects its brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration... - Clark A. MurdockClark A. MurdockClark Murdock is a senior adviser at Center for Strategic and International Studies , a Washington, D.C.-based foreign policy think tank. Murdock specializes in strategic planning, defense policy, and national security affairs...
- Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International StudiesCenter for Strategic and International StudiesThe Center for Strategic and International Studies is a bipartisan Washington, D.C., foreign policy think tank. The center was founded in 1962 by Admiral Arleigh Burke and Ambassador David Manker Abshire, originally as part of Georgetown University...
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- Arthur NaftalinArthur NaftalinArthur Naftalin was an American political scientist and politician. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party , he served as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota from July 3, 1961, to July 6, 1969. He was the city's only Jewish mayor.Naftalin was born in Fargo, North Dakota, one of four...
- Specialist in American politics and former Mayor of Minneapolis, MinnesotaMinneapolis, MinnesotaMinneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States... - Franz Leopold NeumannFranz Leopold NeumannFranz Leopold Neumann was a German-Jewish left-wing political activist, Marxist theorist and labor lawyer, who became a political scientist in exile and is best known for his theoretical analyses of National Socialism. He studied in Germany and the United Kingdom, and spent the last phase of...
- known for analysis of National Socialism. - David Nolan (libertarian) - founder of the United States Libertarian Party
- Douglass NorthDouglass NorthDouglass Cecil North is an American economist known for his work in economic history. He is the co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences...
- Nobel laureate - Philip NortonPhilip NortonPhilip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth is an English author, academic and Conservative peer. He has been described as "the United Kingdom's greatest living expert on Parliament" and "a world authority on constitutional issues".-Education:...
- British politics expert - Pippa NorrisPippa NorrisPippa Norris is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government at the University of Sydney...
- Harvard comparative political scientist - Joseph NyeJoseph NyeJoseph Samuel Nye, Jr. is the co-founder, along with Robert Keohane, of the international relations theory neoliberalism, developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence. Together with Keohane, he developed the concepts of asymmetrical and complex interdependence...
- "Soft power" international security specialist; Kennedy School Dean.
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- Brendan O'LearyBrendan O'LearyBrendan O'Leary is an Irish political scientist, who is Lauder Professor of Political Science and Director of the Penn Program in Ethnic Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was formerly Director of the now-closed Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict...
- Ethnic conflict specialist - Cornelius O'LearyCornelius O'LearyCornelius O'Leary was an Irish historian and political scientist.O'Leary was born in Limerick but was raised in Cork, where he attended University College Cork, gaining a first-class honours degree in history and Latin in 1949...
- Irish historian and political scientist - Bertell OllmanBertell OllmanBertell Ollman is a professor of politics at New York University. He teaches both dialectical methodology and socialist theory. He is the author of several academic works relating to Marxist theory ....
- political theorist - Mancur OlsonMancur OlsonMancur Lloyd Olson, Jr. was a leading American economist and social scientist who, at the time of his death, worked at the University of Maryland, College Park...
- International political economy specialist. Expert on collective action problems. Taught at the University of Maryland, College ParkUniversity of Maryland, College ParkThe University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...
. - A.F.K. OrganskiA.F.K. OrganskiAbramo Fimo Kenneth Organski was Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, the founder of Power transition theory and a co-founder of Decision Insights, Inc. His pioneering work spanned several decades, and focused on specific aspects of world politics, including: political...
- Developed power transition theory in his 1958 book "World Politics". - Elinor OstromElinor OstromElinor Ostrom is an American political economist. She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson, for "her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons." She was the first, and to date, the only woman to win the prize in...
- Specialist on common pool resources, and winner of 2009 Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
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- Thomas PangleThomas PangleThomas Lee Pangle BA PhD FRSC is an American political scientist. He currently holds the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin and from 1979 to 2004 was University Professor in the Department of Political Science at the...
- Political theorist at University of Texas at AustinUniversity of Texas at AustinThe University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin... - Michael ParentiMichael ParentiMichael Parenti is an award-winning, internationally known American political scientist, historian, and culture critic who has been writing on a wide range of both scholarly and popular subjects for over forty years. He has taught at several universities and colleges and has been a frequent guest...
- Political Scientist and Author - Vilfredo ParetoVilfredo ParetoVilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto , born Wilfried Fritz Pareto, was an Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist and philosopher. He made several important contributions to economics, particularly in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices....
- W. Robert Parks - Former President of Iowa State UniversityIowa State UniversityIowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. Iowa State has produced astronauts, scientists, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, along with a host of...
- Gianfranco PasquinoGianfranco PasquinoGianfranco Pasquino is an Italian political scientist, currently professor of political science at the University of Bologna. He is also a professor at the "Bologna Center" at Dickinson College and at the SAIS Bologna center of Johns Hopkins University...
Italian political scientist. Electoral systems, comparative politics. - Gleb PavlovskyGleb PavlovskyGleb Olegovich Pavlovsky is a Russian national, political scientist . He was an adviser of the Presidential Administration of Russia until April 2011. During the Soviet times he was prosecuted as a dissident....
- Russian political scientist. - Nelson W. PolsbyNelson W. PolsbyNelson Woolf Polsby was an American political scientist. He specialized in the study of the United States presidency and United States Congress. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and former editor of the American Political Science Review from 1971-77.Polsby was born...
- American politics scholar. - Karl PopperKarl PopperSir Karl Raimund Popper, CH FRS FBA was an Austro-British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics...
- Theorist who invented the Open SocietyOpen societyThe open society is a concept originally developed by philosopher Henri Bergson and then by Austrian and British philosopher Karl Popper. In open societies, government is purported to be responsive and tolerant, and political mechanisms are said to be transparent and flexible... - Samuel L. PopkinSamuel L. PopkinSamuel L. Popkin is a noted political scientist who teaches at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1969. Popkin has played a role in the development of rational choice theory within political science. He is also noted for his work as a pollster.Popkin has...
- Early expert on rational choice theory. - Sergei M. PlekhanovSergei M. PlekhanovSergei M. Plekhanov is a former Soviet Union government adviser who served under the administration of Mikhail Gorbachev. He is also the former Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of the USA and Canada in Russia, specializing in Russian politics and Russia-United States relations...
- Russia relations expert - Adam PrzeworskiAdam PrzeworskiAdam Przeworski is a Polish-American professor of Political Science. One of the main important theorists and analysers of democratic societies, theory of democracy and political economy, he is currently a full professor at the Wilf Family Department of Politics of New York University.Born in 1940...
- Democratic transitions theorist, author of Democracy and Development. Member of the September Group. - Robert D. Putnam - Social capital theorist, author of Bowling AloneBowling AloneBowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is a book by Robert D. Putnam. It was originally a 1995 essay entitled Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital.-Summary:...
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- Douglas W. RaeDouglas W. Rae*Douglas Whiting Rae is Richard Ely Professor of Management and Political Science at Yale University. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
- Equality theorist - Mahesh RangarajanMahesh RangarajanMahesh Rangarajan is a researcher, author and historian with a special interest in environmental history and colonial history of British India. He appears frequently on Indian television as a political analyst. He is also a columnist in the print media writing on wildlife conservation, political...
- Indian political analyst and researcher with a focus on contemporary Indian politics and the politics of wildlife conservation in India - R. A. W. RhodesR. A. W. RhodesR.A.W. Rhodes is a Professor of Political Science.Rhodes currently holds a joint appointment as Professor of Government in the School of Government at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and as Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the Political Science Program at the Australian...
- Public administration scholar - Condoleezza RiceCondoleezza RiceCondoleezza Rice is an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush...
- Former National Security AdvisorNational Security Advisor (United States)The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor , serves as the chief advisor to the President of the United States on national security issues...
, former Secretary of StateUnited States Secretary of StateThe United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and order of precedence...
. Professor at Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. - Floyd M. RiddickFloyd M. RiddickFloyd M. Riddick was a Parliamentarian of the United States Senate from 1964 to 1974, and is most famous for developing Riddick's Senate procedure. He sat immediately below the presiding officer in the Senate chamber, providing information on precedents and advising other senators on parliamentary...
- Parliamentarian of the United States SenateParliamentarian of the United States SenateThe Parliamentarian of the United States Senate is the official advisor to the United States Senate on the interpretation of Standing Rules of the United States Senate and parliamentary procedure....
from 1964 to 1974, and developer of Riddick's Senate procedureRiddick's Senate procedureIn the United States Congress, Riddick's Senate Procedure is a Senate document containing the contemporary precedents and practices of the Senate. It was named after Senate Parliamentarian Emeritus Floyd Riddick, and is updated periodically by the Senate Parliamentarian.-References:*...
. - William H. RikerWilliam H. RikerWilliam Harrison Riker was an American political scientist who applied game theory and mathematics to political science....
- 20th century political scientist who applied game theoryGame theoryGame theory is a mathematical method for analyzing calculated circumstances, such as in games, where a person’s success is based upon the choices of others...
to political science. - Patrick T. RileyPatrick T. RileyPatrick Thomas Riley is Michael Oakeshott Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is notable for his translations of the political writings of Gottfried Leibniz and his research on social contract theory, as well as the history of universal jurisprudence...
- political theorist and KantKANTKANT is a computer algebra system for mathematicians interested in algebraic number theory, performing sophisticated computations in algebraic number fields, in global function fields, and in local fields. KASH is the associated command line interface...
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- Stein RokkanStein RokkanStein Rokkan was a Norwegian political scientist and sociologist. He was a professor in comparative politics at the University of Bergen.-Career and influence:...
- Expert on political parties and movements, founder of the Institute for Comparative Politics. - Richard RoseRichard Rose (political scientist)Richard Rose is an American political scientist who is currently Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy and Professor of Politics at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He studied as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University and completed his PhD at the University of Oxford...
- American political scientist, Professor of Politics at the University of AberdeenUniversity of AberdeenThe University of Aberdeen, an ancient university founded in 1495, in Aberdeen, Scotland, is a British university. It is the third oldest university in Scotland, and the fifth oldest in the United Kingdom and wider English-speaking world... - Richard RosecranceRichard RosecranceRichard N. Rosecrance is an American economist, historian and political scientist. His research and teaching is focussed on international relations, in particular the link between economics and international relations. Rosecrance is considered an adherent of Liberal international relations...
- International relations and political economy expert. - Clinton RossiterClinton RossiterClinton Rossiter was a historian and political scientist who taught at Cornell University from 1946 until his suicide in 1970. He wrote The American Presidency along with 20 other books on American institutions, the United States Constitution, and history...
- American government and constitutional history theorist. - John RuggieJohn RuggieJohn Gerard Ruggie is the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School...
- International relations theorist, social constructivist. - John RawlsJohn RawlsJohn Bordley Rawls was an American philosopher and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy. He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard University....
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- Larry SabatoLarry SabatoLarry Joseph Sabato is an American political scientist and analyst. He is the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, and director of its Center for Politics. He founded Sabato's Crystal Ball, an online newsletter and website that provides free political analysis and...
- University of VirginiaUniversity of VirginiaThe University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
professor, director of the University of Virginia Center for PoliticsUniversity of Virginia Center for PoliticsThe University of Virginia Center for Politics was founded in 1998 by professor and political analyst Larry J. Sabato to put into practice his belief that "Politics is a good thing!" The Center for Politics is a nonpartisan organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia, which seeks to increase...
, and popular political analyst. - Scott SaganScott SaganScott Douglas Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro professor of Political Science at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation . He graduated from Oberlin College and completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1983...
- Stanford professor and notable critic of deterrence theoryDeterrence theoryDeterrence theory gained increased prominence as a military strategy during the Cold War with regard to the use of nuclear weapons, and features prominently in current United States foreign policy regarding the development of nuclear technology in North Korea and Iran. Deterrence theory however was...
. - Slobodan SamardžićSlobodan SamardžicSlobodan Samardžić is a Serbian academic and politician, and the former Minister for Kosovo-Metohija in the Government of Serbia succeeded by Goran Bogdanović.- Biography :...
- Research includes political ideas and institutions, federalism, constitutionalism, and European Union. - David SamuelsDavid SamuelsDavid J. Samuels is an American political scientist. He earned his PhD at the University of California at San Diego in 1998. As of 2009, he is an associate professor in political science at the University of Minnesota, USA....
- Comparativist scholar of Brazilian politics and political institutions. - Austin SaratAustin SaratAustin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is also a Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor. He has written, co-written, or edited more than fifty books in the fields of law and political science. ...
- Public law specialist - Giovanni SartoriGiovanni SartoriGiovanni Sartori is an Italian political scientist specialized in the study of democracy and comparative politics.-Biography:Born in Florence in 1924. Sartori began his academic career as a lecturer in the History of Modern Philosophy...
- Comparativist, expert on constitutional theory and party systems; author of Parties and Party Systems. - E.E. SchattschneiderElmer Eric SchattschneiderElmer Eric Schattschneider was an American political scientist.Schattschneider was born in Bethany, Minnesota. He received his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Pittsburgh and his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He taught at Columbia, the New Jersey College for Women , and Wesleyan University...
- Early political parties expert, author of Party Government and The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America - Cliff SchecterCliff SchecterClifford D. "Cliff" Schecter is an American political writer, commentator, and operative. Schecter is considered to be a political progressive and wrote a book highly critical of 2008 Republican Presidential nominee John S. McCain; he has a reputation as a pugnacious proponent of progressive...
, political commentator and operativePolitical campaign staffPolitical campaign staff are the people who formulate and implement the strategy needed to win an election. Many people have made careers out of working full-time for campaigns and groups that support them, but in other campaigns much of the staff might be unpaid volunteers... - Steven SchierSteven SchierSteven E. Schier is a professor of political science at Carleton College, specializing in American politics.-Carleton College:Schier has taught courses on Congress, the presidency, American parties and elections, American public policy, and methods of political research...
- Specialist in American Politics - Gesine SchwanGesine SchwanGesine Schwan is a German political science professor and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The party has nominated her twice as a candidate for the federal presidential elections. On 23 May 2004, she was defeated by the Christian Democrat and former president Horst Köhler...
– Political scientist, president of the Viadrina European University, and nominated twice as a candidate for the federal presidential elections of GermanyPresident of GermanyThe President of the Federal Republic of Germany is the country's head of state. His official title in German is Bundespräsident . Germany has a parliamentary system of government and so the position of President is largely ceremonial...
. - James C. ScottJames C. ScottJames C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science, formerly Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University. He is also the director of the Program in Agrarian Studies. By training, he is a southeast Asianist.- Research topics :James Scott's work focuses...
- political economist, Southeast Asia area specialist - Hossein SeifzadehHossein SeifzadehHossein Seifzadeh is an Iranian political scientist and author. Seifzadeh had been a Professor of Political Science at University of Tehran,before he was forced to retire, due to his opposition to fundamentalism and belief in pro-democracy and cosmopolitan perspectives. He has written 22 books...
- IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian Professor of Political Science at University of TehranUniversity of TehranThe University of Tehran , also known as Tehran University and UT, is Iran's oldest university. Located in Tehran, the university is among the most prestigious in the country, and is consistently selected as the first choice of many applicants in the annual nationwide entrance exam for top Iranian...
and expert on strategic and security issues in the Middle EastMiddle EastThe Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East... - Mitchell A. SeligsonMitchell A. SeligsonMitchell A. Seligson is the Centennial Professor of Political Science and Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. He founded and directs the Latin American Public Opinion Project , which conducts the AmericasBarometer surveys that currently cover over 20 countries in the Americas...
- Centennial Professor of Political Science Vanderbilt UniversityVanderbilt UniversityVanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...
and founder of Latin American Public Opinion Project and AmericasBarometer - Donna ShalalaDonna ShalalaDonna Edna Shalala served for eight years as Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton and has been president of the University of Miami, a private university in Coral Gables, Florida, since 2001. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest...
- Former United States Secretary of Health and Human ServicesUnited States Secretary of Health and Human ServicesThe United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is the head of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, concerned with health matters. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet... - Beth SimmonsBeth SimmonsBeth A. Simmons is an American academic and notable international relations scholar. She is currently Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at the Department of Government...
- Prominent international relations scholar focusing on human rights. - Theda SkocpolTheda SkocpolTheda Skocpol is an American sociologist and political scientist at Harvard University. She served from 2005 to 2007 as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is influential in sociology as an advocate of the historical-institutional and comparative approaches, and well-known in...
- Comparative sociologist, former president of American Political Science Association, (Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
) - Stephen SkowronekStephen SkowronekStephen Skowronek is an American political scientist, noted for his research on American national institutions and the U.S. presidency, and for helping to stimulate the study of American political development....
- Presidency and American political development scholar (Yale UniversityYale UniversityYale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
) - Anne-Marie SlaughterAnne-Marie SlaughterAnne-Marie Slaughter was the Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department from January 2009 until February 2011. She is the Bert G...
- Scholar of international relationsInternational relationsInternational relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
, former president of the American Society of International Law. - Matthew Soberg Shugart - Scholar of constitutional design and electoral systems.
- Daniel ŠmihulaDaniel ŠmihulaJUDr. MUDr. Daniel Šmihula PhD. Dr.iur. is a Slovak lawyer, political scientist, journalist and writer.- Life :...
- Specialist for international and European law and security studies (Institute of Political Science of SASInstitute of Political Science of SASInstitute of Political Science of the Slovak Academy of Science is a research institute of the Slovak Academy of Science...
) - Jean Edward SmithJean Edward SmithJean Edward Smith, Ph.D is professor at Marshall University and biographer. Currently he is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto after having served as professor of political economy there for thirty-five years...
- political economist, biographer, international relations, constitutional law. - Rogers SmithRogers SmithRogers Smith is an American political scientist and author noted for his research and writing on American constitutional and political development and political thought, with a focus on issues of citizenship and racial, gender, and class inequalities.Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina and raised...
- Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
finalist, American politics expert at the University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution... - Steven S. SmithSteven S. SmithSteven S. Smith is the Director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, the Kate M. Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences, and Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis...
- American politics, congressional politics, Russian politics; Director, Weidenbaum Center - Herbert SimonHerbert SimonHerbert Alexander Simon was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor—most notably at Carnegie Mellon University—whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics,...
- Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winning professor at Carnegie Mellon. A founder of artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
research, he received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of ChicagoUniversity of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890... - Peverill SquirePeverill SquirePeverill Squire is the Hicks and Martha Griffiths Chair in American Political Institutions at the University of Missouri, a political scientist well known for his work on legislative institutions, with specific focus on state legislatures. He has written, or co-authored, over 87 unique...
- Americanist - Michael SteedMichael SteedMichael Steed is a British psephologist, political scientist, broadcaster, activist and Liberal Democrat politician. He was born in 1940 in Kent, where his father was a farmer. He has written extensively on parties and elections....
- British political scientist, developed the concept of "Steed swing" as distinct from "Butler swing" - Alfred StepanAlfred StepanAlfred C. Stepan is a comparative political scientist and Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University, where he is also director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion....
- Comaparativist, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University - Zeev SternhellZeev SternhellZeev Sternhell is an Israeli historian and one of the world's leading experts on Fascism. Sternhell headed the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and writes for Haaretz newspaper.-Biography:...
- Theorist, political historian of political ideology. - John G. StoessingerJohn G. StoessingerJohn G. Stoessinger, Ph.D. , a prize winning author of ten leading books on world politics, has been the recipient of the distinguished Bancroft Prize for History for The Might of Nations, and has served as Acting Director for the Political Affairs Division at the United Nations. On the eve of...
- 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 StoringHerbert StoringHerbert J. Storing was a professor of Constitutional History and Law, the Federalist Papers, and, most notably, the Anti-Federalists. Prior to his death at the age of 49 he had completed most of his annotated seven volume collection of Anti-Federalist writings, The Complete Anti-Federalist, which...
- American politics expert. - Susan StrangeSusan StrangeSusan Strange was a British academic who was influential in the field of International Political Economy. Her most important publications include Casino Capitalism, Mad Money, States and Markets and The Retreat of the State : The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy.For a quarter of a century,...
- British expert in international relations, taught at the London School of Economics - Surain SubramaniamSurain SubramaniamDr. Surain Subramaniam is a noted academic and professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He is contributor to several journals on international relations. The focus of his writing has developed the theory of Asian Values, defining and illustrating the contrast...
- professor and prolific author, realist school of international relations - Carol SwainCarol Miller SwainCarol M. Swain is an American political scientist and Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University. She is an expert on race relations, immigration, black leadership, representation, evangelical politics and the Constitution. Her most recent book is Be the People: A Call to...
- Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University, expert of immigration and race.
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- Rein TaageperaRein TaageperaRein Taagepera is an Estonian political scientist and politician.- Education :Born in Tartu, Estonia, Taagepera fled from occupied Estonia in 1944. Taagepera graduated from high school in Marrakech, Morocco and then studied physics in Canada and the United States. He received a Ph.D. from the...
- Comparativist, expert on electoral systems and history of government. - Dennis ThompsonDennis Frank ThompsonDennis Frank Thompson is a political scientist and professor at Harvard University, where he founded the university-wide Center for Ethics and the Professions...
- Political theorist at Harvard University - Virginia TilleyVirginia TilleyVirginia Tilley is an American political scientist specialising in the comparative study of ethnic and racial conflict.-Background:...
- specialist on the Israeli-Palestinian conflictIsraeli-Palestinian conflictThe Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between Jewish and Zionist yishuv and the Arab population living in Palestine under Ottoman or... - Charles TillyCharles TillyCharles Tilly was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society. He was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University....
- Professor at Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, his work includes contentious politicsContentious politicsContentious politics is the use of disruptive techniques to make a political point, or to change government policy. Examples of such techniques are actions that disturb the normal activities of society such as demonstrations, general strike action, riot, terrorism, civil disobedience, and even...
and evolution of modern states - Herbert TingstenHerbert TingstenHerbert Lars Gustaf Tingsten was a Swedish political scientist, writer and newspaper publisher. He was a professor of political science at Stockholm University from 1935 to 1946, and executive editor of the newspaper Dagens Nyheter from 1946 to 1959.Herbert Tingsten was born in Järfälla, Stockholm...
- Professor of political science at Stockholm UniversityStockholm UniversityStockholm University is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 28,000 students at four faculties, making it one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is also frequently regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world... - J. Ann TicknerJ. Ann TicknerJ. Ann Tickner is a feminist international relations theorist. She is a professor at the School of International Relations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles...
- Feminist international relations theorist and current president of the International Studies AssociationInternational Studies AssociationThe International Studies Association was founded by a group of scholars and practitioners in 1959 to pursue mutual interests in international studies. Representing eighty countries, ISA has over three thousand members worldwide and is the most respected and widely known scholarly association in...
(ISA). - George TsebelisGeorge TsebelisGeorge Tsebelis is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Tsebelis developed the theory of veto players, set out in his best known work, Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work ....
- Game theorist notable for his general theory of Veto players and for describing the Robinson Crusoe fallacy.
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- Stephen Van EveraStephen Van EveraStephen William Van Evera is a professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in International Relations. His research includes the U.S. foreign and national security policy and causes and prevention of war.-Biography:Van Evera received his A.B. in...
- MITMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
international relations expert, known for proposing Offense-Defense theory - Sidney VerbaSidney VerbaSidney Verba is an American political scientist, librarian and library administrator. His academic interests are mainly American and comparative politics. He was the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University. He also served Harvard as the director of the Harvard University...
- Eric VoegelinEric VoegelinEric Voegelin, born Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin, was a German-born American political philosopher. He was born in Cologne, then Imperial Germany, and educated in political science at the University of Vienna. He became a teacher and then an associate professor of political science at the...
- 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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- Helen WallaceHelen WallaceDame Helen Sarah Wallace, Lady Wallace of Saltaire, DBE, CMG, FBA , née Rushworth, is a British expert in European Studies and, by marriage to William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, a peeress....
- International relations specialist. - Stephen WaltStephen WaltStephen Martin Walt is a professor of international affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Among his most prominent works are and . He coauthored The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy with John Mearsheimer.-Education and career:In 1983, he received a Ph.D. in...
- International relations specialist. - Kenneth N. Waltz - Founder of the neorealist international relations school
- Michael WalzerMichael WalzerMichael Walzer is a prominent American political philosopher and public intellectual. A professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, he is co-editor of Dissent, an intellectual magazine that he has been affiliated with since his years as an undergraduate at...
- International relations, just war theory - Ken WardKen WardKen Ward is an environmental activist who served as Executive Director of NJPIRG and RIPIRG, Deputy Executive Director, Greenpeace USA, cofounder of a number of organizations, including Green Corps , National Environmental Law Center , Public Interest GRFX, Environmental Endowment for New Jersey,...
- Constitutional Law, Texas State University - Alexander WendtAlexander WendtAlexander Wendt is one of the core social constructivist scholars in the field of international relations. Wendt and scholars such as Nicholas Onuf, Peter J...
- Social constructivismSocial constructivismSocial constructivism is a sociological theory of knowledge that applies the general philosophical constructionism into social settings, wherein groups construct knowledge for one another, collaboratively creating a small culture of shared artifacts with shared meanings...
proponent - Darrell M. WestDarrell M. WestDarrell West is an American author, political scientist, and political commentator. West is the vice president and director of governance studies and director of the center for technology innovation at the Brookings Institution. He has written about technology policy, mass media, and campaigns...
- Specialist in electronic government, Brookings InstitutionBrookings InstitutionThe Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and...
director of Governance Studies - John Henry WhyteJohn Henry WhyteJohn Henry Whyte was an Irish historian, political scientist and author of books on Northern Ireland, divided societies and on church-state affairs in Ireland.-Early life:...
- Specialist in Northern Irish politics - Alan Whaites - States/State-building theorist, DFID http://www.dfid.gov.uk
- Aaron WildavskyAaron WildavskyAaron Wildavsky was an American political scientist known for his pioneering work in public policy, government budgeting, and risk management....
- Author of "Risk and Culture" - Bruce A. WilliamsBruce A. WilliamsBruce A. Williams is an American born political scientist and media studies scholar.-Biography:Williams received a PhD in political science from the University of Minnesota in ????. He has held faculty positions at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Michigan, the University of...
- Specialist in American politics - Danny WilliamsDanny Williams (politician)Daniel E. "Danny" Williams, QC, MHA is a Canadian politician, businessman and lawyer who served as the ninth Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador between November 6, 2003, and December 3, 2010. Williams was born and raised in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador...
- Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador. - James Q. WilsonJames Q. WilsonJames Q. Wilson is an American academic political scientist and an authority on public administration. He is a professor and senior fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College....
- Former President of the American Political Science AssociationAmerican Political Science AssociationThe American Political Science Association is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903, it publishes three academic journals... - Woodrow WilsonWoodrow WilsonThomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...
- Former Professor of Politics at Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
and former U.S. PresidentPresidentA president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership... - William WohlforthWilliam WohlforthWilliam Curti Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor of Government in the Dartmouth College Department of Government, of which he was chair for three academic years...
- International relations scholar - Susan L. WoodwardSusan L. WoodwardSince 2001, Susan L. Woodward is a professor at the Political Science Program at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York . She is an expert on comparative politics and on Balkan Studies. Previously was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College,...
- Professor at the Graduate Program at The Graduate Center of the City University of New YorkCUNY Graduate CenterThe Graduate Center of the City University of New York brings together graduate education, advanced research, and public programming to midtown Manhattan hosting 4,600 students, 33 doctoral programs, 7 master's programs, and 30 research centers and institutes...
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- Atilla YaylaAtilla YaylaAtilla Yayla is a Turkish political thinker and a proponent of liberal democracy. He is Professor of Politics, Political Economy and Political Philosophy at Gazi University in Turkey -Life and career:He was born in 1957 in Kaman, Kırşehir....
– Professor of Politics, Political Economy and Political Philosophy at Gazi UniversityGazi UniversityGazi University is a public university primarily located in Ankara, Turkey.It was established in 1926 by Kemal Atatürk as Gazi Teacher Training Institute...
in TurkeyTurkeyTurkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
, and president of the Association for Liberal ThinkingAssociation for Liberal ThinkingThe Association for Liberal Thinking is a Turkish libertarian think-tank.-History:The group was informally founded on 26 December 1992 by former conservative intellectuals and gained official status as an association under Turkish law on 1 April 1994...
. - Crawford YoungCrawford YoungCrawford Young is an American lutenist, music teacher, and director of the Ferrara Ensemble and Shield of Harmony, both early music groups.Robert Crawford Young graduated in 1976 from New England Conservatory in Boston, where he played classical guitar, lute and tenor banjo...
- Noted comparativist, Africa scholar.
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- Fareed ZakariaFareed ZakariaFareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist and author. From 2000 to 2010, he was a columnist for Newsweek and editor of Newsweek International. In 2010 he became Editor-At-Large of Time magazine...
- International Relations Expert - John ZallerJohn ZallerJohn R. Zaller is a political scientist and professor specializing in public opinion at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was an Editor of the American Political Science Review. He graduated from Saint Monica Catholic High School in Santa Monica, CA. He pursued his undergraduate...
- Author of "The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion," at UCLA.
See also
- Political SciencePolitical sciencePolitical Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
- Political Theorists
- List of people
- Oxford Handbooks of Political ScienceOxford Handbooks of Political ScienceThe Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books which provide critical overviews of the state of political science...