Robert Abelson – Yale University psychologist and political scientist with special interests in statistics and logic[1]
Henry J. Abraham – American scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law and James Hart Professor of Government Emeritus at the University of Virginia[2][3]
Alan Abramowitz – expert in American politics, political parties, ideological realignment, elections, and voting behavior; professor at Emory University
Paul R. Abramson – American political scientist known for his research and writing on American, European, and Israeli elections and professor of political science at Michigan State University[4]
As'ad AbuKhalil – Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus.[5]
Brooke Ackerly – expert on grounded normative theory, feminist theory, feminist international relations, and scholar activism, professor at Vanderbilt University[7]
Martha Ackelsberg – American political scientist and women's studies scholar at Smith College[8]
David Adamany – public law specialist and President of Temple University
Charles R. Adrian – American professor of political science who specialized in municipal politics[9]
Vinod Aggarwal – American political scientist specializing in international political economy[10]
Robert Agranoff – American political scientist and public administration scholar and author[11]
Arun Agrawal – political scientist in the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan[12]
Janet Ajzenstat – Canadian political historian at McMaster University[13]
Adeolu Akande – professor of political science at the Igbinedion University
Bolaji Akinyemi – Nigerian professor of political science
Bethany Albertson – American political psychologist[14]
Daniel P. Aldrich – American political scientist, public policy and Asian studies scholar at Northeastern University[15]
John Aldrich – political parties expert at Duke University, author of Why Parties?
John R. Alford – political science professor at Rice University who researches genopolitics[16]
Hayward Alker – professor of international relations at the University of Southern California, MIT and Yale who specialized in research methods, core international relations theory, international politics, and security[17]
Danielle Allen – American classicist and political scientist[18]
Karen Alter – American academic who conducts interdisciplinary work on international law's influence in international and domestic politics[19][20]
Scott Althaus – professor of political science and communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the director of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the university[21][22]
Micah Altman – American social scientist who conducts research in social science informatics[23]
R. Michael Alvarez – professor of political science at California Institute of Technology and co-director of the Voting Technology Project[24]
Tabata Amaral – Brazilian political scientist and federal deputy for São Paulo[25]
Ambedkar – jurist, economist and chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of India
Thomas Ambrosio – professor of political science in the Criminal Justice and Political Science Department at North Dakota State University[26]
Kristi Andersen – American political scientist at Syracuse University who studies party realignment[27]
Walter K. Andersen – American academic known for his studies of the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh[28]
Benedict Anderson – Chinese-born Irish political scientist and historian in the US, author of Imagined Communities[29]
Lisa Anderson – American political scientist and the former president of the American University in Cairo[30]
Walter Truett Anderson – American political scientist, social psychologist, and author of non-fiction books and articles[31]
William Anderson – specialist in public administration
Mina Andreeva – Bulgarian political scientist and chief spokesperson for the European Commission[32]
Marimba Ani – anthropologist and African Studies scholar best known for her work Yurugu[33]
Stephen Ansolabehere – professor of government at Harvard University[34]
William Antholis – Greek-American political scientist, director and CEO of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia[35]
David Apter – American political scientist and sociologist who was Henry J. Heinz Professor of Comparative Political and Social Development and senior research scientist at Yale University[36]
Asher Arian – American and Israeli political scientist who was an expert on Politics of Israel and election studies[37][38]
Hadley Arkes – American political scientist and the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions emeritus at Amherst College[39][40]
John Alexander Armstrong – Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison[41]
Larry Arnhart – Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northern Illinois University[42]
Richard Ashcraft – American political theorist and professor of political science at UCLA[43]
Herb Asher – professor emeritus of political science at Ohio State University[44]
Richard K. Ashley – postmodernist scholar of international relations[45]
Ronald Asmus – diplomat and political analyst and then senior think tank policy analyst[46]
Scott Atran – American-French political and cultural anthropologist[47]
Sharon Wright Austin – Director of the African-American Studies Program and a professor of political science at the University of Florida[48]
Deborah Avant – American political scientist at the University of Denver[49]
Bill Avery – politician from the state of Nebraska and retired political scientist who specializes in international trade and foreign relations[50]
Robert Axelrod – expert on game theory and complexity theory, wrote extensively on the Prisoner's Dilemma, former president of American Political Science Association
Julia Azari – American political scientist, professor of political science at Marquette University and contributor to FiveThirtyEight[51]
Jeremy Azrael – American political scientist known for his expertise on the economy of the Soviet Union[52]
Ahron Bregman – expert on the Arab–Israeli conflict
Ian Bremmer – political risk specialist
Emma Briant - expert on propaganda and information warfare, Associate Professor of News and Political Communication at Monash University.[139]
Janine Brodie – Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Political Economy and Social Governance at the University of Alberta[140]
Stephen Brooks – international relations scholar
Lara Brown – American political scientist and director of the Graduate School of Political Management at the George Washington University[141]
Nadia E. Brown – uses intersectionality to study identity politics, legislative studies, and Black women's studies[142]
Robert X. Browning – specialist in American politics and chief archivist for C-SPAN
Zbigniew Brzezinski – Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman
David Butler – pioneer of modern British political science, invented the concept of swing
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William A. Callahan
Melani Cammett – Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Linda Cardinal – University Professor and a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Francophonie and Public Policies at the University of Ottawa[143]
Ira Carmen – co-founder of the social science subdiscipline of genetics and politics
Edward Hallett Carr – international relations theorist
Alfredo Castillero Hoyos – democracy and human rights; former member of the United Nations 's Human Rights Committee
George Catlin (1896–1979) – English political scientist and philosopher; strong proponent of Anglo-America cooperation; worked for many years as a professor at Cornell University
Edvin Kanka Ćudić – Bosnian political scientist and human rights activist, founder and coordinator of UDIK in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Alison Dagnes – American specialist in politics and the media, politics and humor, and political scandal[150]
Robert A. Dahl – American politics specialist, author of On Democracy
Jouke de Vries – Frisian politician and professor at the university of Leiden
Vera Micheles Dean – Russian American political scientist, former head of research for the Foreign Policy Association, and leading international affairs authority in the 1940s and 1950s[151]
Ronald Deibert – Canadian political scientist and founder and director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto
Fatima Denton – Ethiopian political scientist, Officer-in-Charge of the Special Initiatives Division and the Co-ordinator for the African Climate Policy Centre of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa[152]
Daniel Deudney – writer and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University; author of Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village
Karl Deutsch – political scientist, focused on political communication
Larry Diamond – comparative democratization specialist; professor at Stanford University
Michelle Dion – professor in the department of political science and the Senator William McMaster Chair in Gender and Methodology at McMaster University[153]
Ruth Dixon – winner of the Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration[154] and the W. J. M. Mackenzie award of the Political Studies Association.[155]
Maurice Duverger – French lawyer and sociologist responsible for Duverger's law
Rand Dyck – Canadian politics expert and professor at Carleton University
Thomas R. Dye – elite theory vs. pluralism; author of The Irony of Democracy and Who's Running America?
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David Easton – originator of systemic theory
Susan Eaton – American political scientist and workers' rights activist[156]
Daniel J. Elazar – American federalism and political culture scholar, founder of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, political science professor at Bar Ilan (Israel) and Temple University
Keisha Lynne Ellis – Bahamian political scientist[157]
Jean Bethke Elshtain – American political philosopher focusing on gender, ethics, American democracy, and international relations
Jadwiga Emilewicz – Polish politician, political scientist, and government minister[158]
Cynthia Enloe – international relations scholar focusing on Feminism in international relations, editor for such scholarly journals as Signs and the International Feminist Journal of Politics[159]
Eqbal Ahmed – Pakistani political scientist and Third World scholer
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C. Christine Fair – American political scientist who studies counter-terrorism and South Asian topics[160]
James D. Fearon – American political scientist focusing on theory of civil wars, international bargaining, war's inefficiency puzzle and audience costs[161]
Peter D. Feaver – international security expert
Dafydd Fell – British political scientist
David Fellman – Constitutional scholar
Richard Fenno – Congress scholar, author of Home Style: House Members in their Districts
Thomas Ferguson – politics and economics
Joel S. Fetzer – comparative politics specialist; distinguished professor at Pepperdine University
Samuel Finer – academic and author on political science and history of government
Norman Finkelstein – author on political science, notable for The Holocaust Industry
Martha Finnemore – international relations and international organizations scholar[162]
Morris P. Fiorina – American politics; proposed retrospective vote theory
Peter Fishburn – operations analysis and probability theory expert
Keith Fitzgerald – immigration politics expert
Naika Foroutan – German political scientist studying immigration and integration[163]
James H. Fowler – expert on political participation, the evolution of cooperation, and social network theory (UCSD)
Daniel P. Franklin – American politics; politics of the presidency and Politics and Film
Annette Baker Fox – international relations scholar[164]
William T. R. Fox – international relations theorist, coiner of the term "superpower"
Ernst Fraenkel – German political scientist and one of the founding fathers of German political science after World War II[165]
Doris Fuchs (scientist) – German political scientist and Professor of International Relations and Sustainable Development at the University of Münster[166]
Francis Fukuyama – international political theory and biopolitics
Archon Fung
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Michael Gallagher
Krenar Gashi – Ghent University political scientist and former Financial Times reporter[167]
Lisa García Bedolla – UC Berkeley professor, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, and dean of the Graduate Division
Scott Gates – specialist in international relations
Barbara Geddes – scholar of authoritarianism and authoritarian regimes[168]
Anthony Giddens – political sociologist originator of the Third Way
Elisabeth Gidengil – Hiram Mills Professor of political science at McGill University studying political engagement and Canadian politics[169]
Robert Gilpin – international political economy specialist
Michael Hart – British twentieth-century politics specialist
Louis Hartz – American author of The Liberal Tradition in America
Mary Hawkesworth – American political scientist and Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University[182]
Colin Hay – influential British political scientist
Clarissa Rile Hayward – professor at Washington University in St. Louis studying the theory of political power and political identities[183]
David J. Jackson – Entertainment/celebrity and politics expert
Lawrence R. Jacobs – American political scientist and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota
Gary Jacobson – Constitutional law expert
Ashley E. Jardina – American political scientist and assistant professor of political science at Duke University[189]
Attahiru Jega – Nigerian political scientists specialised in political development. former INEC chairman and also Former vice Chancellor of Bayero University.
Nazokat Kasimova – Uzbekistani political scientist, also noted for her work within the field of higher education reform[192]
Nina Kasniunas – author and the Arsht Professor in Ethics and Leadership at Goucher College[193]
Nancy Kassop – Professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz[194]
Peter Katzenstein – professor at Cornell, former president of the American Political Science Association
Ira Katznelson – specialist in American and comparative politics
Dennis Kavanagh
Michael Keating – specialist in nationalism, European integration and regionalism
Margaret Keck – developed the study of international activist movements and networked advocacy[195]
Edmond Keller – specialist in African politics
Willmoore Kendall – political theorist; teacher of William F. Buckley, Jr.
Robert O. Keohane – interdependence theory author
Ben Kerkvliet – specialist in comparative politics
Cornelius Kerwin – Former president of American University
V.O. Key, Jr. – elections, parties and public opinion scholar
Laleh Khalili – Iranian American and professor in Middle Eastern politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies[196]
Ilona Kickbusch – German political scientist best known for her contribution to health promotion and global health[197]
Gary King – professor at Harvard, political methodologist
John W. Kingdon – specialist in American politics
Grayson L. Kirk – specialist in international relations and President of Columbia University
Henry Kissinger – former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President Richard M. Nixon
Herbert Kitschelt – author on new radical right parties
Samara Klar – professor and founder of Women Also Know Stuff
Stephen D. Krasner – international regimes author, Director of Policy Planning under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and professor at Stanford University
Oskar Krejčí – theory of international relations, elections and political psychology, former advisor to two Czechoslovak premieres
Sarah Kreps – foreign and defense policy, nuclear proliferation, and government transparency
James Kurth
Will Kymlicka – originated the theoretical foundations of multiculturalism
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Guy Laforest – liberalism (John Locke) scholar; Quebec and Canadian politics specialist
Celinda Lake – American survey methodologist, pollster, and political strategist[198]
Enid Lakeman – British political reformer, writer and politician, noted for her long-standing championship of the Single Transferable Vote system of elections[199]
Laura Langbein – American quantitative methodologist and professor of public administration and policy at American University[200]
Harold Lasswell – political communications, pioneered early efforts to establish the policy sciences and influential contributor to the Stages Heuristic
Adria Lawrence – American political scientist and the Aronson Associate Professor of International Studies and Political Science at Johns Hopkins University[201]
Jack Layton – former leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, Ph.D. in Political Science
Richard Ned Lebow – constructivist, Cold War expert, author of Tragic Vision of Politics
Pia Mancini – political scientist, activist and technical project leader from Argentina[205]
Jane Mansbridge – scholar of social movements, gender, and democratic engagement (Harvard University), former American Political Science Association president
Zeev Maoz – Arab-Israeli Conflict and international relations expert
Jose M. Maravall – political economist
Helen Margetts – Formerly Director of the Oxford Internet Institute and current director of the Public Policy Programme at the Alan Turing Institute[206]
David Marsh – influential British political scientist
Juraj Marusiak – Slovak expert for Central and Eastern Europe
Joanna Marszałek-Kawa – Polish lawyer, political scientist, professor and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń[207]
David R. Mayhew – U.S. legislative behavior and political parties expert
Mohammed Barkindo – He is Nigerian political scientists and petroleum economist. current secretary general of OPEC.[214]
Clark A. Murdock – Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Diana Mutz – Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics[215]
Harris Mylonas – Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and editor-in-chief of Nationalities Papers
Pippa Norris – Harvard comparative political scientist[217]
Philip Norton – British politics expert
Julie Novkov – American political scientist at SUNY Albany studying the history of American law, American political development, and subordinated identities[218]
Joseph Nye – "soft power" international security specialist; Kennedy School Dean
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Karen O'Conner – political science professor at American University in Washington, D.C. and the founder and director emerita of the Women & Politics Institute[219]
Aloysius-Michaels Nnabugwu Okolie – professor at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Guillermo O'Donnell – democracy specialist
Brendan O'Leary – ethnic conflict specialist
Cornelius O'Leary – Irish historian and political scientist
Bertell Ollman – political theorist
Mancur Olson – international political economy specialist; expert on collective action problems; taught at the University of Maryland, College Park
A.F.K. Organski – developed power transition theory in his 1958 book World Politics
Norman Ornstein – American political theorist; American Enterprise Institute (AEI) resident scholar
Elinor Ostrom – specialist on common pool resources; winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics[220]
Emilia Justyna Powell – Polish-American political scientist known for her expertise on international dispute resolution, the Islamic legal tradition, Islamic international law, and Islamic constitutionalism[222]
Jewel Prestage – first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in political science, former dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Southern University[223]
Adam Przeworski – Democratic transitions theorist, author of Democracy and Development; member of the September Group
Robert D. Putnam – social capital theorist, author of Bowling Alone
Vicky Randall – scholar of political science and gender[224]
Mahesh Rangarajan – Indian political analyst and researcher with a focus on contemporary Indian politics and the politics of wildlife conservation in India
Gary D. Rawnsley FRSA – British political scientist whose research is located at the intersection of international relations and international communication.
Dan Reiter – political scientist, specialized on military conflicts and war; professor at Emory University; author of How Wars End
R. A. W. Rhodes – public administration scholar, pioneer of the study of policy networks in British government
Condoleezza Rice – former National Security Advisor; former Secretary of State; professor at Stanford University
Floyd M. Riddick – Parliamentarian of the United States Senate from 1964 to 1974, and developer of Riddick's Senate procedure
William H. Riker – 20th-century political scientist who applied game theory to political science
Patrick T. Riley – political theorist and Kant scholar
Pearl T. Robinson – American professor of political science at Tufts University[225]
David Rohde – Congress scholar
Stein Rokkan – expert on political parties and movements, founder of the Institute for Comparative Politics
Richard Rose – American political scientist, Professor of Politics at the University of Aberdeen
Richard Rosecrance – international relations and political economy expert
Clinton Rossiter – American government and constitutional history theorist
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph – scholar of political economy and political economy, former American Political Science Association president
Irene S. Rubin – Emerita at Northern Illinois University focusing on interview methodology and public budgeting in American government[226]
John Ruggie – international relations theorist, social constructivist
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Larry Sabato – University of Virginia professor, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, and popular political analyst
Scott Sagan – Stanford professor and notable critic of deterrence theory
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
E.E. Schattschneider – early political parties expert, author of Party Government and The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America
Steven Schier – specialist in American Politics
Warner R. Schilling – specialist in international relations and military technology
Kay Lehman Schlozman – J. Joseph Moakley Professor of political science at Boston College and an expert in American political participation and gender and politics[230]
Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration Professor of International Relations in the Pardee School of Global Studies and professor of political science at Boston University[231]
Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey – professor in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science[232]
Victoria Schuck – Professor of Political Science who spent much of her career (1940–1976) at Mount Holyoke College[233]
Ekaterina Schulmann – associate professor of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and legal specialist[234]
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
Mitchell A. Seligson – Centennial Professor of Political Science Vanderbilt University; founder of Latin American Public Opinion Project and AmericasBarometer
Donna Shalala – former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
Valeria Sinclair-Chapman – studies American political institutions, the representation of minority groups in the United States Congress, and minority political participation[235]
Theda Skocpol – comparative sociologist; former president of American Political Science Association, Harvard University
Stephen Skowronek – presidency and American political development scholar (Yale University)
Anne-Marie Slaughter – scholar of international relations, former president of the American Society of International Law
Jean Edward Smith – political economist, biographer, international relations, constitutional law
Rogers Smith – Pulitzer Prize finalist, American politics expert at the University of Pennsylvania
Steven S. Smith – American politics, congressional politics, Russian politics; Director, Weidenbaum Center
Peverill Squire – Americanist
Allison Stanger – American political scientist and the Russell J. Leng '60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College[236]
Michael Steed – British political scientist, developed the concept of "Steed swing" as distinct from "Butler swing"
Alfred Stepan – comparativist, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University
Zeev Sternhell – theorist, political historian of political ideology
John G. Stoessinger – international relations theorist, author of The Might of Nations: World Politics in our Time
Donald E. Stokes – former dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton; expert on elections
Susan Stokes – Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science department of the University of Chicago and the faculty director of the Chicago Center on Democracy[237]
Herbert Storing – American politics expert
Susan Strange – British expert in international relations; taught at the London School of Economics[238]
Dara Strolovitch – studies the politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the context of intersectional societal inequality[239]
Carol Swain – Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University; expert on immigration and race
Stephen Szabo is an American political scientist and educator who specializes in foreign policy.
Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila a Nigerian political scientist, author of The Rise and Fall of Kano Peoples Party, Secretary-General People's Redemption Party 1980–1983, Campaign Manager of Nigerian People's Party –1983
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Rein Taagepera – comparativist, expert on electoral systems and history of government
Colin Talbot – Chair of Government at the University of Manchester; adviser to various Parliamentary Committees of the United Kingdom
Marco Tarchi – professor at University of Florence, right-wing militant and creator of Nouvelle Droite
Merze Tate – international relations expert and first African-American woman to attend University of Oxford and receive a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University
Anthony Teasdale - specialist in European Union politics
Sally Terry – political science professor at Tufts University from 1975[241] until her retirement in 2002[242]
Eric Voegelin – in his major work, Order and History in five volumes, he rejected the notion that political science should become a positivistic social science
Margaret Vogt – Nigerian diplomat and political scientist who served as Special Representative and head of the United Nations Integrated Peace-building Office in the Central African Republic[249]
William Wohlforth – international relations scholar
Arnold Wolfers – international relations scholar, classical realism
Elisabeth Jean Wood – studies sexual violence during war, the emergence of political insurgencies and individuals' participation in them, and democratization[255]
Ngaire Woods – founding dean of the Blavatnik School of Government
Susan L. Woodward – professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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Atilla Yayla – Professor of Politics, Political Economy and Political Philosophy at Gazi University in Turkey; president of the Association for Liberal Thinking
Yelyzaveta Yasko – Ukrainian political scientist and politician who is a member of the Ukrainian Parliament[256]
M. Crawford Young – comparativist, Africa scholar
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Fareed Zakaria – international relations expert
John Zaller – author of The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion; at UCLA
Elizabeth Zechmeister – comparativist at Vanderbilt University, Latin American politics and public opinion expert, director of the Latin America Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)[257]
Zhang Weiwei – Chinese political scientist
Ina Zhupa – Albanian political scientist who studies Democratization and Values of Albanian Society[258]
Zakaria bin Muhammad Amin – Indonesian Islamic political scientist
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