List of political scientists

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

Notable political scientists

A

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
Shlomo Avineri
Robert Axelrod - Notable game theorist, wrote extensively on the "Prisoner's Dilemma"

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-Charles de Borda - 18th century mathematician who devised the Borda count.
Steven Brams - Export on voting systems.
Ian Bremmer - Political risk specialist.
Stephen Bronner
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - Pioneering game theorist with applications to international relations, seminal book "The War Trap".
Walter Dean Burnham

C

John M. Carey - Latin American politics specialist. Scholar of constitutional design and legislative politics.
Edward Hallett Carr - Noted international relations theorist.
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.
Clyde Coombs - Voting systems expert, designed "Coombs' method"
Gary Cox - Noted scholar of comparative and American politics.
Philip Cowley - Author of "Revolts and Rebellions".

D

Robert A. Dahl - Noted American politics specialist
Larry Diamond - Comparative democratization specialist
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) - Famous author of Alice in Wonderland who was also a noted professor of mathematics at Oxford University. He devised Dodgson's Method of voting system.
Everett Dolman - Geopolitics expert.
Anthony Downs - Elections expert.
Maurice Duverger - French lawyer and sociologist responsible for Duverger's law.
Michael W. Doyle - International relations theorist, author of "Empires".

E

David Easton
Harry Eckstein - Noted comparative politics expert.

F

Peter D. Feaver - International security expert.
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 Fukayama- international political theory and biopolitics.

G

Anthony Giddens - Noted political sociologist.
Robert Gilpin - International political economics specialist.
Joanne Gowa - International political economy expert

H

Harry Harding - China specialist.
Thomas Hare - Devised Single Transferable Vote (a.k.a. Hare's method).
Marc Hetherington- American Public Opinion and Political Behavior- Trust in Government
Barbara Hicks - Eastern Europe expert.
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.

I

J

Gary C. Jacobson - Congressional politics expert
Robert Jervis - International security specialist.
Chalmers Johnson - Comparative theorist.
Loch K. Johnson - US Intelligence Expert.

K

Robert O. Keohane - Interdependence theory author.
Dr. Henry Kissinger - former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President Richard M. Nixon.
Stephen D. Krasner - International regimes author, Director of Policy Planning under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Keith Krehbiel - Congress scholar and formal theorist
Will Kymlicka - Author of "Multicultural Citizenship".

L

David A. Lake - International Relations Theorist
Tom Lansford - Political Science Specialist at the University of Southern Mississippi
Richard Ned Lebow - Noted constructivist, Cold War expert, author of "Tragic Vision of Politics".
Eugene Lewis - Expert on constitutional law and bureaucracy.
Arend Lijphart - Comparative politics theorist.
Seymour Martin Lipset - Renowned political sociologist.
Ramon Llull - Discoverer of Condorcet Criterion and Borda Count

M

Vincent A. Mahler - International Relations and Income Inequality expert
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.
Samuel Merrill III - Voting theory specialist.
Terry Moe - American politics specialist.
Hans Morgenthau - Noted realist, international relations specialist.
James Morrow - International relations expert and game theorist.

N

Michael Nelson - U.S. presidency expert
Philip Norton - Acclaimed British politics expert
Joseph Nye - "Soft power" international security specialist; Kennedy School Dean.

O

Mancur Olson - International political economy specialist.

P

Nelson Polsby - US politics specialist.
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.

R

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.

S

Giovanni Sartori - Comparativist, expert on constitutional theory and party systems; author of Parties and Party Systems.
John Schaar - Expert on patriotism, politics and American literature, and political thought.
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 - Poltical economist, expert on Southeast Asia.
Patrick Seyd - Party politics expert; Europeanist.
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
Rogers Smith - Pulitzer Prize finalist, American politics expert at the University of Pennsylvania
Matthew Soberg Shugart - International authority on Constitutional design and electoral systems.
Theda Skocpol - Comparative politics expert.
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".
Leo Strauss - political theorist; author of "History of Political Philosophy"; originator of Straussian thought

T

David B. Truman

U

V

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

W

Stephen Walt - International relations specialist.
Kenneth N. Waltz - A dean of the realist international relations school.
Alexander Wendt - social constructivism proponent
Howard J. Wiarda
Aaron Wildavsky - Author of "Risk and Culture".
Woodrow Wilson- Former Professor of Politics at Princeton University and former U.S. President
Susan L. Woodward

X

Y

Crawford Young - Noted comparativist, Africa scholar.

Z

Fareed Zakaria - Newsweek International editor, comparativist.
John Zaller - Author of "The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion," at UCLA.

Presidents of the American Political Science Association

Presidents of the Midwest Political Science Association

James K. Pollock, University of Michigan, 1939
W.H.C. Laves, University of Chicago, 1940
Francis G. Wilson, University of Illinois, 1941
John E. Briggs, State U. of Iowa, 1942
Howard White, Miami University, 1943-47
Harold Zink, DePauw University, 1948
Llewellyn Pfankuchen, University of Wisconsin, 1949
Harold M. Door, University of Michigan, 1950
Charles M. Kneier, University of Illinois, 1951
Harold M. Vinacke, University of Cincinnati, 1952
Kirk H. Porter, State University of Iowa, 1953
Harry W. Voltmer, DePauw University, 1954
Asher Christensen, University of Minnesota, 1955
Edward H. Buehrig, Indiana University, 1955 (Acting President)
David Fellman, University of Wisconsin, 1956
Wilfred E. Binkley, Ohio Northern University, 1957
Clarence A. Berdahl, University of Illinois, 1958
Jasper B. Shannon, University of Nebraska, 1959
Amry Vandenbosch, University of Kentucky, 1960
Lloyd M. Short, University of Minnesota, 1961
Richard Spencer, Coe College, 1962
E. Allen Helms, Ohio State University, 1963
William O. Farber, University of South Dakota, 1964
John E. Stoner, Indiana University, 1965
Clara Penniman, University of Wisconsin, 1966
Vernon Van Dyke, University of Iowa, 1967
John D. Lewis, Oberlin College, 1968
Samuel J. Eldersveld, University of Michigan, 1969
Merle Kling, Washington University, 1970
John Wahlke, University of Iowa, 1971
Leon D. Epstein, University of Wisconsin, 1972
Doris A. Graber, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, 1973
Frank Sorauf, University of Minnesota, 1974
Charles Press, Michigan State University, 1975
Norton Long, University of Missouri, St. Louis, 1976
Samuel Krislov, University of Minnesota, 1977
Robert Salisbury, Washington University, 1978
John Kessel, Ohio State University, 1979
Malcolm E. Jewell, University of Kentucky, 1980
Samuel C. Patterson, University of Iowa, 1981
Dina Zinnes, University of Illinois, 1982
Jack Dennis, University of Wisconsin, 1983
Lucius Barker, Washington University, St. Louis, 1984
Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, 1985
W. Phillips Shively, University of Minnesota, 1986
Ada Finifter, Michigan State University, 1987
John Kingdon, University of Michigan, 1988
William Crotty, Northwestern University, 1989
Richard Watson, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1990
Marjorie Randon Hershey, Indiana University, 1991
Charles O. Jones, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992
Susan Welch, Penn State, 1993
Lee Sigelman, George Washington University, 1994
John Sprague, Washington University, 1995
James Stimson, University of Minnesota, 1996
Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan, 1997
Harold Spaeth, Michigan State University, 1998
James L. Gibson, Washington University, 1999
Milton Lodge, SUNY-Stony Brook, 2000
Robert Huckfeldt, Indiana University, 2001
Herbert Weisberg, The Ohio State University, 2002
Virginia Gray, University of North Carolina, 2003
John H. Aldrich, Duke University, 2004

Presidents of the Canadian Political Science Association

Adam Shortt, (Civil Service Commission), 1913-1914
O.D. Skelton, (Queen’s), 1929-1930
Stephen B. Leacock, (McGill), 1934-1935
R.H. Coats, (Toronto), 1935-1936
W.A. Mackintosh, (Queen’s), 1936-1937
H.A. Innis, (Toronto), 1937-1938
J.W. Dafoe, (Winnipeg Free Press), 1938-1939
J.C. Hemmeon, 1939-1940
W.C. Clark, (Deputy Minister of Finance), 1940-1941
H. Mitchell, 1941-1942
C.A. Dawson, 1942-1943
R.A. MacKay, (Dalhousie), 1943-1944
K.W. Taylor, 1944-1945
R. MacGregor Dawson, (Toronto), 1945-1946
F.A. Knox, 1946-1947
V.W. Bladen, (Toronto), 1947-1948
H.F. Angus, (British Columbia), 1948-1949
W.B. Hurd, (McMaster), 1949-1950
C.A. Curtis, (Curtis), 1950-1951
G.-H. Levesque, (Laval), 1951-1952
Herbert Marshall, 1952-1953
Alexander Brady, (Toronto), 1953-1954
J.A. Corry, (Queen’s), 1954-1955
J.D. Gibson, 1955-1956
G.E. Britnell, (Sasktachewan), 1956-1957
G.A. Elliott, (Alberta), 1957-1958
S.D. Clark, (Toronto), 1958-1959
Mabel Timlin, (Saskatchewan), 1959-1960
C.A. Ashley, 1960-1961
Eugene A. Forsey, (Canadian Labour Congress), 1961-1962
W.J. Waines, 1962-1963
C.B. Macpherson, (Toronto), 1963-1964
Jean-Charles Falardeau, (Laval), 1964-1965
Harry G. Johnson, (London School of Economics/Chicago), 1965-1966
Anthony D. Scott, (British Columbia), 1966-1967
H.B. Mayo, (Carleton), 1967-1968
Donald V. Smiley, (British Columbia), 1968-1969
Douglas V. Verney, (York), 1969-1970
Gilles Lalande, (Montréal), 1970-1971
J.E. Hodgetts, (Toronto), 1971-1972
Jean Laponce, (British Columbia), 1972-1973
John Meisel, (Queen’s), 1973-1974
Léon Dion, (Laval), 1974-1975
Donald C. Rowat, (Carleton), 1975-1976
Alan C. Cairns, (British Columbia), 1976-1977
Hugh Thorburn, (Queen’s), 1977-1978
Kenneth D. McRae, (Carleton), 1978-1979
Paul W. Fox, (Toronto), 1979-1980
Walter D. Young, (Victoria), 1980-1981
Denis Stairs, (Dalhousie), 1981-1982
Edwin R. Black, (Queen’s), 1982-1983
Caroline Andrew, (Ottawa), 1983-1984
Kalevi J. Holsti, (British Columbia), 1984-1985
Frederick C. Engelmann, (Alberta), 1985-1986
O.P. Dwivedi, (Guelph), 1986-1987
John C. Courtney, (Saskatchewan), 1987-1988
David J. Elkins, (British Columbia), 1988-1989
André-J. Bélanger, (Montréal), 1989-1990
Peter H. Russell, (Toronto), 1990-1991
Vincent Lemieux, (Laval), 1991-1992
V. Seymour Wilson, (Carleton), 1992-1993
Sylvia Bashevkin, (Toronto), 1993-1994
David Smith, (Saskatchewan), 1994-1995
Peter Aucoin, (Dalhousie), 1995-1996
Jane Jenson, (Montréal), 1996-1997
Tom Pocklington, (Alberta), 1997-1998
Donald Savoie, (Moncton), 1998-1999
Roger Gibbins, (Calgary), 1999-2000
Kenneth McRoberts, (York), 2000-2001
R. Kenneth Carty, (British Columbia), 2001-2002
Grace Skogstad, (Toronto), 2002-2003
Robert Young, (Western Ontario), 2003-2004
André Blais, (Montréal), 2004-2005