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This is a list of notable political scientists. See also political science.

[edit] Notable political scientists

[edit] A

Christopher H. Achen - Political methodologist at Princeton University, first president of the Society for Political Methodology.
John Aldrich - Political parties expert at Duke University, author of Why Parties?
Graham Allison - "Essence of decision" author; early bureaucratic politics model proponent; former Dean of Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Gabriel A. Almond - Originator of culturist movement in Comparative Politics
R. Douglas Arnold - Congress scholar, author of The Logic of Congressional Action
Robert Axelrod - Notable game theorist, wrote extensively on the "Prisoner's Dilemma"

[edit] B

Stephen Barber - Noted for his work on political strategy and political economy. Author of Political Strategy.
Larry Bartels - Democracy and voting expert at Princeton University
Nathaniel Beck - Political methodologist, international relations scholar
Duncan Black - Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson.
Jean Blondel - Comparative politics (University of Siena) and emeritus at European University Institute
Catherine Boone - Comparative politics, Africa (University of Texas at Austin)
Jean-Charles de Borda - 18th century mathematician who devised the Borda count.
Steven Brams - Expert on voting systems.
Ahron Bregman - Expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict
John Brehm - Public opinion and political psychology expert.
Ian Bremmer - Political risk specialist.
Stephen Bronner
Stephen Brooks - International relations scholar
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - Pioneering game theorist with applications to international relations, seminal book "The War Trap".
Walter Dean Burnham - Expert in the field of realigning elections, emeritus at University of Texas at Austin

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Edward Hallett Carr - Noted international relations theorist.
James Ceaser - Major scholar of American politics (University of Virginia)
J. Tyson Chatagnier - Political methodologist, game theorist and International Relations scholar.
Partha Chatterjee, Indian postcolonial critic, political and social scientist
David Collier, - comparativist, Latin Americanist, Methodologist
Ruth Berins Collier, - comparativist, Latin Americanist, specialist on labor politics and democratization
Josep M. Colomer - Institutionalist, comparativist, and game theorist scholar.
Marquis de Condorcet - 18th century mathematician and philosopher who contributed the often used Condorcet criterion and devised the concept of a Condorcet method.
John Coneybeare - International organizations theorist.
Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri - International Relations, Indology at Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Philip Converse - Public opinion scholar, author of "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics."
Clyde Coombs - Voting systems expert, designed "Coombs' method"
Colm Costigan - Renowned Irish Politician of the 1970s, professor at University of Dublin
Gary Cox - Noted scholar of comparative and American politics.
Philip Cowley - Author of "Revolts and Rebellions".
Joseph C.W. Chan - Political philosopher specialized in liberal perfectionism and contemporary confucianism.

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Robert A. Dahl - Noted American politics specialist, author of On Democracy (Yale University Press)
Daniel Deudney - Acclaimed writer and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, in their political science department
Larry Diamond - Comparative democratization specialist
John DiIulio- American politics expert at the University of Pennsylvania; first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Groups
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (also known as Lewis Carroll) - Famous author of Alice in Wonderland who was also a noted professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford. He devised Dodgson's Method of voting system.
Anthony Downs - Elections expert.
Maurice Duverger - French lawyer and sociologist responsible for Duverger's law.
Michael Doyle - International Relations theorist, author of "Empires".
John Dunn - Political theorist at the University of Cambridge.
Rand Dyck - Canadian politics expert and professor at Laurentian University.
Thomas R. Dye - Elite theory vs. Pluralism; author of The Irony of Democracy and Who's Running America?

[edit] E

David Easton - Originator of systemic theory
Harry Eckstein - Noted comparative politics expert in culture and democracy.

[edit] F

Peter D. Feaver - International security expert.
David Fellman - Constitutional scholar
Richard Fenno - Congress scholar, author of Home Style: House Members in their Districts
Samuel Finer - Academic and author on political science and history of government.
Martha Finnemore - International organizations and ethics scholar.
Peter Fishburn - Operations analysis and probability theory expert.
Keith Fitzgerald - Immigration politics expert.
Ernst Fraenkel
Francis Fukuyama - International political theory and biopolitics.

[edit] G

Anthony Giddens - Noted political sociologist originator of the Third Way.
Anthony Gill - Comparativist, religion and politics specialist. Author of Rendering Unto Caesar (University of Chicago Press)
Robert Gilpin - International political economics specialist.
Jordan Glass - Canadian political expert
Joanne Gowa - International political economy expert (democratic peace theory).
Adolf Grabowsky- German political scientist
Joseph Grieco - International relations theorist; Duke University professor.
Amy Gutmann - political theory expert; (2004-present) President of the University of Pennsylvania

[edit] H

Harry Harding - China specialist.
Thomas Hare - Devised Single Transferable Vote (also known as Hare's method).
Michael Hart - British twentieth century politics specialist.
Marc Hetherington - Author of "Why Trust Matters" and offered new participation paradigm.
Christopher J. Hill - International Relations scholar, Professor and Director of the Cambridge Centre of International Studies.
Roger Hilsman - JFK Aid, Columbia University Professor, and prolific author.
Donald Horowitz - Pioneered political science models for assessing ethnic conflict.
Samuel P. Huntington - Author of "Clash of Civilizations" and a noted comparativist.

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Gary Jacobsohn - Comparative constitutional theory
Gary C. Jacobson - Congressional politics expert
Robert Jervis - International security specialist.
Chalmers Johnson - Comparative theorist.
Loch K. Johnson - United States intelligence Expert.
Bertrand de Jouvenel - French political scientist. Co-founder of Mont Pelerin Society

[edit] K

Robert Kagan
Robert O. Keohane - Interdependence theory author.
V.O. Key, Jr. - Elections, parties and public opinion scholar.
Henry Kissinger - Former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President Richard M. Nixon.
Herbert Kitschelt - author on new radical right parties
Stephen D. Krasner - International regimes author, Director of Policy Planning under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Keith Krehbiel - Congress scholar and formal theorist
Oskar Krejčí - Theory of international relations, elections and political psychology, former advisor to two Czechoslovak premieres
Will Kymlicka - Originated the theoretical foundations of multiculturalism.

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David A. Lake - International Relations Theorist
Richard Ned Lebow - Noted constructivist, Cold War expert, author of "Tragic Vision of Politics".
Michael Leifer - International Relations, South Asian Studies, London School of Economics
Arend Lijphart - Originator of consociationalism.
Seymour Martin Lipset - Renowned political theorist on democracy and development and parties.
Ramon Llull - Discoverer of Condorcet Criterion and Borda Count
Theodore Lowi - Major scholar of American politics at Cornell
Ian Lustick - State territioriality ethnic conflict and computer modelling in political science; University of Pennsylvania
Rodrigo Losada Lora - political behavior from a sociopsychological framework. Works on Colombia´s political participation. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana,Bogotá, Colombia

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Harvey C. Mansfield - Political philosophy (Harvard University)
Donald Manzullo - Congressional Representative of Illinois' 16th District.
Jose M. Maravall - Political economist.
Pierre Martin - French parties and elections scholar.
David R. Mayhew - US legislative behavior and political parties expert.
Mathew McCubbins - Formal theorist. U.S. Congress and bureaucracy specialist.
Michael McFaul - Russia specialist.
John Mearsheimer - Noted international relations theorist and national security expert.
Uday Mehta - Political theorist and author of Liberalism and Empire
Thierry Meyssan - Political theorist of anti-imperialism
Samuel Merrill III - Voting theory specialist.
George Michael - specialist in right-wing extremism.
Terry Moe - American politics specialist and game theorist.
Hans Morgenthau - Noted realist, international relations specialist.
James Morrow - International relations expert and game theorist.
David Miller - Political Philosopher specialized in theories of social justice
John Mueller - Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at The Ohio State University

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Douglass North - Nobel laureate
Anne Norton - political theorist at University of Pennsylvania
Philip Norton - Acclaimed British politics expert
Joseph Nye - "Soft power" international security specialist; Kennedy School Dean.

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Mancur Olson - International political economy specialist. Expert on collective action problems.
A.F.K. Organski - Developed power transition theory in his 1958 book "World Politics".

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Thomas Pangle - Political theorist at University of Texas at Austin
Nelson Polsby - American politics scholar.
Samuel L. Popkin - Early expert on rational choice theory.
Adam Przeworski - Democratic transitions theorist, author of Democracy and Development. Member of the September Group.
Robert Putnam - Social capital theorist, author of Bowling Alone.

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Floyd M. Riddick - Parliamentarian of the United States Senate from 1964 to 1974, and developer of Riddick's Senate procedure.
William H. Riker - 20th century political scientist who applied game theory to political science.
Douglas Rivers - Political econometrician, quantitative methods expert.
David Rohde - Congress scholar
Stein Rokkan - Expert on political parties and movements, founder of the Institute for Comparative Politics.
Richard Rosecrance - International relations and political economy expert.
Clinton Rossiter - American government and constitutional history theorist.
John Ruggie - International relations theorist, social constructivist.
John Rawls - Political philosopher.

[edit] S

David Samuels - Comparativist scholar of Brazilian politics and political institutions.
Giovanni Sartori - Comparativist, expert on constitutional theory and party systems; author of Parties and Party Systems.
Michael Savage
E.E. Schattschneider - Early political parties expert, author of Party Government and The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America
James C. Scott - Political economist, expert on Southeast Asia.
Theda Skocpol - Comparative sociologist, former president of American Political Science Association, (Harvard University)
Stephen Skowronek - Presidency and American political development scholar (Yale University)
Matthew Soberg Shugart - Scholar of constitutional design and electoral systems.
Jean Edward Smith - political economist, biographer, international relations, constitutional law.
Rogers Smith - Pulitzer Prize finalist, American politics expert at the University of Pennsylvania
Herbert Simon - Nobel Prize winning professor at Carnegie Mellon. A founder of artificial intelligence research, he received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago
Zeev Sternhell - Theorist, political historian of political ideology.
James A. Stimson - Americanist, former editor of Political Analysis.
John G. Stoessinger - International relations theorist, author of "The Might of Nations: World Politics in our Time".
Herbert Storing - American politics expert.
Leo Strauss - History of political philosophy scholar.

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Rein Taagepera - Comparativist, expert on electoral systems and history of government.
Dennis Thompson - Political theorist at Harvard University
David B. Truman
Jeffrey K. Tulis author of The Rhetorical Presidency
J. Ann Tickner feminist international relations theorist and current president of the International Studies Association (ISA).

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[edit] V

Eric Voegelin - Major work, "Order and History" in five volumes, he rejected the notion that political science should become a positivistic social science.

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Stephen Walt - International relations specialist.
Kenneth N. Waltz - A dean of the realist international relations school
Alexander Wendt - Social constructivism proponent
Aaron Wildavsky - Author of "Risk and Culture"
James Q. Wilson - Former President of the American Political Science Association
Woodrow Wilson - Former Professor of Politics at Princeton University and former U.S. President
Alan Wolfe - Professor of political science at Boston College, chairs "Religion and Democracy in the United States" task force
William Wohlforth - International relations scholar
B. Dan Wood - Prominent political methodologist and American politics scholar at Texas A&M University
Susan L. Woodward