This is a list of notable political scientists. See the list of political theorists for those who study political theory. See also Political Science. [edit] Notable political scientists - Alan Abramowitz - Expert in American politics, political parties, ideological realignment, elections, and voting behavior.
- John Aldrich - Political parties expert at Duke University, author of Why Parties?
- Graham Allison - Early proponent of the bureaucratic politics model, author of Essence of Decision, national security specialist, former Dean of Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
- Gabriel A. Almond - Originator of the culturist movement in Comparative Politics.
- Robert Axelrod - Expert on game theory and complexity theory, wrote extensively on the Prisoner's Dilemma, former president of American Political Science Association.
- Benjamin Barber - proponent of participatory democracy and local governance teaching at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland College Park.
- James David Barber - developed a classification system of the personality types of American presidents, successfully predicted Richard Nixon's resignation from the office of the president
- Stephen Barber - Noted for his work on political strategy and political economy, author of Political Strategy
- Simion Bărnuţiu - Noted for his work on political strategy in Austria and Romania.
- Larry Bartels - Democracy and voting expert at Princeton University.
- Gad Barzilai - Law and Politics, Human Rights and Politics, Communities and Law at University of Washington .
- Duncan Black - Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson.
- Hans T. Blokland - Author of Freedom and Culture in Western Society and Modernization and its political consequences.
- Jean Blondel - Comparative politics at University of Siena, emeritus at European University Institute.
- Jean-Charles de Borda - 18th century mathematician who devised the Borda count.
- Steven Brams - Expert on voting systems.
- Ahron Bregman - Expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Ian Bremmer - Political risk specialist.
- Stephen Brooks - International relations scholar.
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - Pioneering game theorist with applications to international relations, author of selectorate theory, seminal book "The War Trap".
- Walter Dean Burnham - Expert in the field of realigning elections, emeritus at University of Texas at Austin.
- David Butler, pioneer of modern British political science, invented the concept of swing.
- James E. Campbell - American politics, election forecasting, theory of "surge and decline," SUNY-Buffalo, Author of "The American Campaign"
- George Catlin - (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 Carmen - Co-founder of the social science subdiscipline of genetics and politics.
- Edward Hallett Carr - Noted international relations theorist.
- Alfredo Castillero Hoyos - Democracy and Human Rights. Former member of the United Nations's Human Rights Committee.
- Partha Chatterjee - Indian postcolonial critic, political and social scientist
- John Coakley - specialist in ethnic conflict and Irish politics
- Benjamin Cohen - leader in the field of International Political Economy
- James Smoot Coleman, early Africanist, founded the UCLA African Studies Center
- Josep Colomer - Institutionalist, comparativist, and game theorist scholar.
- Marquis de Condorcet - 18th century mathematician and philosopher who contributed the often used Condorcet criterion and devised the concept of a Condorcet method.
- 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"
- Philip Cowley - Author of "Revolts and Rebellions".
- Ralph W. Conant - Author of "The Prospects for Revolution" and "Toward a More Perfect Union: The Governance of Metropolitan America".
- Peter Katzenstein
- Dennis Kavanagh
- Michael Keating - Specialist in nationalism, European integration and regionalism
- Robert O. Keohane - Interdependence theory author.
- Cornelius Kerwin - President of American University
- V.O. Key, Jr. - Elections, parties and public opinion scholar.
- Kan Kimura - Professor at Kobe University, Specialist in nationalism, East Asian Politics.
- Gary King - Professor at Harvard, political methodologist.
- Henry Kissinger - Former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President Richard M. Nixon.
- Herbert Kitschelt - author on new radical right parties
- Stephen D. Krasner - International regimes author, Director of Policy Planning under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and professor at Stanford University.
- Michael Krassa - Elections, social context, architecture and society. Lobbyist, consultant, political sociologist and Chair of Human Dimensions of Environmental Systems department at University of Illinois at Urbana.
- Oskar Krejčí - Theory of international relations, elections and political psychology, former advisor to two Czechoslovak premieres.
- James Kurth
- Will Kymlicka - Originated the theoretical foundations of multiculturalism.
lombia - Larry Sabato - University of Virginia professor, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, and popular political analyst.
- Scott Sagan - Stanford professor and notable critic of deterrence theory.
- Slobodan Samardžić - Research includes political ideas and institutions, federalism, constitutionalism, and European Union.
- David Samuels - Comparativist scholar of Brazilian politics and political institutions.
- Giovanni Sartori - Comparativist, expert on constitutional theory and party systems; author of Parties and Party Systems.
- E.E. Schattschneider - Early political parties expert, author of Party Government and The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America
- Gesine Schwan – Political scientist, president of the Viadrina European University, and nominated twice as a candidate for the federal presidential elections of Germany.
- James C. Scott - political economist, Southeast Asia area specialist
- Hossein Seifzadeh - Iranian Professor of Political Science at University of Tehran and expert on strategic and security issues in the Middle East
- Mitchell A. Seligson - Centennial Professor of Political Science Vanderbilt University and founder of Latin American Public Opinion Project and AmericasBarometer
- 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.
- Daniel Šmihula - Specialist for international and European law and security studies (Institute of Political Science of SAS)
- Jean Edward Smith - political economist, biographer, international relations, constitutional law.
- Rogers Smith - Pulitzer Prize finalist, American politics expert at the University of Pennsylvania
- Steven S. Smith - American politics, congressional politics, Russian politics; Director, Weidenbaum Center
- Herbert Simon - Nobel Prize winning professor at Carnegie Mellon. A founder of artificial intelligence research, he received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago
- Peverill Squire - Americanist
- Michael Steed - British political scientist, developed the concept of "Steed swing" as distinct from "Butler swing"
- Alfred Stepan - Comaparativist, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University
- Zeev Sternhell - Theorist, political historian of political ideology.
- John G. Stoessinger - International relations theorist, author of "The Might of Nations: World Politics in our Time".
- Donald Stokes -- Former Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, expert on elections.
- Herbert Storing - American politics expert.
- Susan Strange - British expert in international relations, taught at the London School of Economics
- Surain Subramaniam - professor and prolific author, realist school of international relations
- Stephen Van Evera - MIT international relations expert, known for proposing Offense-Defense theory
- Sidney Verba
- Eric Voegelin - Major work, "Order and History" in five volumes, he rejected the notion that political science should become a positivistic social science.
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