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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#851

Tatu Vanhanen

#13435

Overall Influence

1929 - 2015 (86 years)

Tatu Vanhanen was a Finnish political scientist and sociologist. He was a professor of political science at the University of Tampere in Tampere, Finland. Vanhanen was a coauthor with Richard Lynn of IQ and the Wealth of Nations and IQ and Global Inequality , and author of Ethnic Conflicts Explained by Ethnic Nepotism .

#852

Ian Brodie

#30690

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Ian Ross Brodie is a Canadian political scientist and was Chief of Staff in Stephen Harper's Prime Minister's Office from Harper's ascension to the position of prime minister until July 1, 2008. The news that he was leaving the post came days before the release of a report on the Clinton/Obama NAFTA leak controversy. He is currently a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary.

#853

David Vogel

#23292

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

David Vogel is the Soloman P. Lee Distinguished Professor in Business Ethics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of both the Political Science Department and the Haas School of Business, and is Editor of the California Management Review. He was the Jean Monnet Chair, European University Institute, in 1994 and the BP Chair in Transatlantic Relations, there in 2000. At INSEAD he was the Novartis Professor of Management and the Environment in 2000-2001 and the Shell Fellowship in Business and the Environment in 2002.

#854

Mark Considine

#35160

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Mark Considine is an Australian political scientist, who specialises in public sector reform, and reforms of social services. Since 2018, he has been Provost of the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Institute of Public Administration Australia.

#855

Richard Ashcraft

#29075

Overall Influence

1938 - 1995 (57 years)

Richard Ashcraft was an American political theorist and Professor of Political Science at UCLA. He graduated from Harvard College and University of California, Berkeley . John Dunn claimed in 1986 that Ashcraft "has been one of the most effective and interesting analysts of Locke's social and political thought for nearly two decades" and that his Revolutionary Politics and Locke's Two Treatises of Government was "not only by far the most impressive political biography of Locke available but also the fullest study to date of "radical" politics in England between the late 1660s and 1689".

#856

Murray Edelman

#28210

Overall Influence

1919 - 2001 (82 years)

Murray Jacob Edelman was an American political scientist known for his research on symbolic politics and political psychology. Career Edelman received a bachelor's degree in social sciences from Bucknell University in 1941, a master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1942 and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois in 1948. He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois that year, and remained there until he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1966. Edelman was awarded a University Houses chair in 1971, which he named for George Herbert Mead, an inspiration for much of his own work on symbolic politics.

#857

Stephen Clarkson

#23615

Overall Influence

1937 - 2016 (79 years)

Stephen Clarkson, was one of Canada’s preeminent political scientists and a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto. Life and career Clarkson's work focused mainly on two areas: the evolution of North America as a continental state, reinstitutionalized by the North American Free Trade Agreement and two decades of neoconservatism; and the impact of globalization and trade liberalization on the Canadian state. His trilogy on these themes include Uncle Sam and Us: Globalization, Neoconservatism and the Canadian State, published in 2002; Does North America Exist? and Depend...

#858

Thom Hartmann

#7929

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Thomas Carl Hartmann is an American radio personality, author, businessman, and progressive political commentator. Hartmann has been hosting a nationally syndicated radio show, The Thom Hartmann Program, since 2003 and hosted a nightly television show, The Big Picture, between 2010 and 2017.

#859

Pascal Lissouba

#23329

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Pascal Lissouba was a Congolese politician who was the first democratically elected President of the Republic of the Congo and served from 31 August 1992 until 25 October 1997. He was overthrown by the former and current President Denis Sassou Nguesso in the 1997 civil war.

#860

Michael J. Shapiro

Michael J. Shapiro

#13499

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Michael Joseph Shapiro is an American educator, theorist, and writer. He is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. His work is often described as "postdisciplinary," drawing from such diverse fields as political philosophy, critical theory, cultural studies, film theory, international relations theory, literary theory, African American studies, comparative politics, geography, sociology, urban planning, economics, psychoanalysis, crime fiction, genre studies, new musicology, aesthetics and indigenous politics.

#861

Michael Heinrich

Michael Heinrich

#14454

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Michael Heinrich is a German historian of philosophy, political scientist, and mathematician, specialising in the critical study of the development of Marx's thought. Heinrich's work, influenced by Elmar Altvater and the Neue Marx-Lektüre of Hans-Georg Backhaus and Helmut Reichelt is characterised by its focus on the points of ambivalence and inconsistency in the work of Marx. Through this theme, Heinrich challenges both the closed system he identifies with "worldview Marxism", as well as teleological narratives of Marx's intellectual development throughout his life. He is best known for his ...

#862

Daniel Byman

#34314

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Daniel L. Byman is one of the world's leading researchers on terrorism, Counterterrorism and the Middle East. Dr. Byman is a professor in Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and Director of Georgetown's Security Studies Program He is a former Vice-Dean of the school.

#863

Gad Horowitz

#27775

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Gad Horowitz is a Canadian political scientist. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. Biography Horowitz was born in Jerusalem in 1936 and immigrated to Canada at the age of 2. His father Rabbi Aaron Horowitz, was a prominent member of the Jewish community and a key figure in founding Camp Massad in Canada. He grew up in Calgary, Winnipeg, and Montreal.

#864

Valerie M. Hudson

#25496

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Valerie M. Hudson is an American professor of political science in the Department of International Affairs at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University as of January 2012. Prior to coming to Texas A&M, Hudson was a professor of political science at Brigham Young University for over 24 years. She is most noted for having co-authored the book Bare Branches which discussed the effects of China's demographic decisions on sex ratios in China and other countries.

#865

William Safran

#30487

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

William Safran is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. It has been argued that Safran "has contributed substantially to the body of knowledge regarding ethnic politics, nationalism, and related subjects, such as institutional and cultural pluralism, citizenship, immigration, diaspora, national identity, and the politics of language and religion". He is a specialist on France, and much of his research concerns French ethnic politics.

#866

David Magleby

#22901

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

David Blyth Magleby is an American political scientist and distinguished professor of political science at Brigham Young University and formerly the dean of the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences at that institution. He is an expert on direct democracy and campaign finance.

#867

Ted Hopf

#33603

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Theodore Hopf is an American academic and a leading figure in constructivism in international relations theory. He was a Provost Chair Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore . He was also jointly appointed as Research Cluster Leader on Identities at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore .

#868

Shashi Tharoor

#13054

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Shashi Tharoor is an Indian former international civil servant, diplomat, bureaucrat, politician, a noted writer and public intellectual who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He is the present Chairman of the Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers. He was formerly an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and unsuccessfully ran for the post of Secretary-General in 2006. Founder-Chairman of All India Professionals Congress, he formerly served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs and on Informational Technology.

#869

Stephen Bronner

#22210

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Stephen Eric Bronner is a political scientist and philosopher, Board of Governors Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, and is the Director of Global Relations for the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. Bronner has published over 25 books and 200 journal articles.

#870

Dan Reiter

#35192

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Dan Reiter is an American political scientist. He is currently the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at the Department of Political Science at Emory University. Education Reiter received his B.A. with honors in political science from Northwestern University in 1989 and his Ph.D in political science from the University of Michigan in 1994. He was a John M. Olin postdoctoral fellow in national security at Harvard University from 1994 to 1995.

#871

Morton I. Abramowitz

Morton I. Abramowitz

#21639

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Morton Isaac Abramowitz is an American diplomat and former U.S. State Department official. Starting his overseas career in Taipei, Taiwan after joining the foreign service, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Thailand and Turkey and as the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research. He retired from the State Department with the rank of Career Ambassador. He then became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and founded the International Crisis Group.

#872

Stephen Haber

#22334

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Stephen H. Haber is an American political scientist and historian known for his research on political institutions and economic policies that promote innovation and improvements in living standards. Haber is the A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

#873

A. F. K. Organski

#39539

Overall Influence

1923 - 1998 (75 years)

Abramo 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 demography; political development; and grand strategy. He was the author of World Politics, The Stages of Political Development, The War Ledger, Birth, Death and Taxes, and The $36 Billion Bargain. Other publications are available in scholarly journals.

#874

Robert Litwak

#39000

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Robert Sutherland Litwak is senior vice president and director of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

#875

Harry H. Eckstein

#29100

Overall Influence

1924 - 1999 (75 years)

Harry H. Eckstein was an American political scientist. He was an influential scholar of comparative politics and political culture, as well as qualitative research methods. Early life and education Eckstein was born on January 26, 1924, in Schotten, Germany, to a Jewish family, that was persecuted during the Holocaust. He came to the United States without his family at age 12, living in Columbus, Ohio. He was educated at Harvard University on a scholarship, earning a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in 1948, a master's degree in 1950, and a doctorate in 1953, all in Government. His undergr...

#876

George Modelski

#17777

Overall Influence

1926 - 2014 (88 years)

George Modelski was Professor of political science in the University of Washington. Modelski was a professor there from 1967 to 1995. Before working at the University of Washington, Modelski was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University.

#877

Joel Rogers

#32579

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Joel Edwards Rogers is an American academic and political activist. Currently a professor of law, political science, public affairs and sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he also directs the Center on Wisconsin Strategy and its projects, including the Center for State Innovation, Mayors Innovation Project, and State Smart Transportation Initiative. Rogers is a contributing editor of The Nation.

#878

Dina Powell

#11851

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Dina Powell, also known as Dina Powell McCormick is an American financial executive, philanthropist, and political advisor, best known for having been the United States Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy to President Donald Trump.

#879

Hooshang Amirahmadi

#40133

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Hooshang Amirahmadi is an Iranian American academic and political analyst. Amirahmadi is a professor of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, at Rutgers University. He has stepped forward as a candidate for Iranian presidential elections in 2005, 2013 and 2017.

#880

Alfred Grosser

#18955

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (99 years)

Alfred Grosser is a German-French writer, sociologist, and political scientist. He is known for his contributions towards the Franco-German cooperation after World War II and for criticizing Israel.

#881

Michael Keating

Michael Keating

#18741

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Michael Keating is a political scientist specialising in nationalism, European politics, regional politics, and devolution. He is Professor of Scottish Politics at the University of Aberdeen and Fellow of the Centre on Constitutional Change at the University of Edinburgh.

#882

Boris Tadić

#23672

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Boris Tadić is a Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2004 to 2012. Born in Sarajevo, he graduated from the University of Belgrade with a degree in psychology. He later worked as a journalist, military psychologist, and teacher at the First Belgrade Gymnasium. Tadić joined the Democratic Party in 1990 and was elected to the National Assembly after the 1993 election. After the downfall of Slobodan Milošević in 2000, he was appointed as the minister of telecommunications in the government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a role which he held until 2003, after which he was appointed minister of defence in the government of Serbia.

#883

Alan O. Ebenstein

#17202

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Alan Oliver Ebenstein is an American political scientist, educator and author, known from his biographical works on Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. Biography Born in Princeton, New Jersey, to William Ebenstein , a noted political scientist, and Ruth Ebenstein. He obtained his BA at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1982, and his PhD at the London School of Economics in 1988.

#884

Vivien A. Schmidt

Vivien A. Schmidt

#42751

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Vivien A. Schmidt is an American academic of political science and international relations. At Boston University, she is the Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration Professor of International Relations in the Pardee School of Global Studies, and Professor of Political Science. She is known for her work on political economy, policy analysis, democratic theory, and new institutionalism. She is a 2018 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been named a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor.

#885

Robert Barnett

#34577

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Robert Barnett is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS , University of London and Affiliate Lecturer and Research Affiliate at the Lau China Institute, King's College, London. He is the former Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program, where he was Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Tibetan Studies and Senior Research Scholar in modern Tibetan history at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. He retired from Columbia as of January 2018. He is also referred to as Robbie Barnett by the media.

#886

Murray Levin

#36506

Overall Influence

1927 - 1999 (72 years)

Murray Burton Levin was a political science professor at Boston University from 1955 through his retirement in 1989. A progressive who once had been a member of the Communist Party USA, Levin was an unreconstructed radical throughout his academic career. In addition to teaching a popular core course on political science, Levin specialized in teaching Marxist political theory to both undergraduate and graduate students. Long before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Levin eventually came to the conclusion that Marxist theory was not a science, let alone a viable system of economics, but was a powerful propaganda tool to mobilize the masses against capital.

#887

Wu Guoguang

#32251

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Wu Guoguang , is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University in his affiliation with Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions , as SCCEI is a joint effort of Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research for “bridging the divide between cutting-edge empirical research on China’s economy and the policies guiding U.S.-China economic, trade and business practices.” He is concurrently a Senior Fellow on Chinese Politics at Center for China Analysis of the Asia Society Policy Institute , as CCA aims to “serve as a leading ...

#888

Nancy Bermeo

#47298

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Nancy Bermeo is an American political scientist, and senior research fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. She previously held the position of Nuffield Chair of Comparative Politics at Oxford.

#889

Nicholas J. Cull

#19569

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Nicholas J. Cull is a historian and professor in the Master's in Public Diplomacy program at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. He was the founding director of this program and ran it from 2005 to 2019.

#890

Masao Maruyama

#13261

Overall Influence

1914 - 1996 (82 years)

Masao Maruyama was a leading Japanese political scientist and political theorist. His expertise lay in the history of Japanese political thought, to which he made major contributions. Early life Maruyama Masao was born in Osaka in 1914. He was the second son of journalist Maruyama Kanji. He was influenced by friends of his father such as Hasegawa Nyozekan, a circle of people identified with the liberal current of political thought during the period of Taishō democracy. After graduating from Tokyo Furitsu Number One Middle School , he entered the Tokyo Imperial University and graduated from the Department of Law in 1937.

#891

H. Gordon Skilling

#23529

Overall Influence

1912 - 2001 (89 years)

Harold Gordon Skilling was a Canadian political scientist, known for his expertise on the history of Czechoslovakia and support for the Charter 77 dissident movement. Born in Toronto in 1912, Skilling received degrees from the University of Toronto, University of London, and University of Oxford. He was part of the faculty at the University of Toronto until his retirement in 1982.

#892

Jeffrey K. Tulis

#16707

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Jeffrey K. Tulis is an American political scientist known for work that conjoins the fields of American politics, political theory, and public law. Early life and education Tulis was born in Long Branch, New Jersey and grew up on the Jersey Shore in the Oakhurst section of Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. He spent his high school years at the New Hampton School, a boarding school in New Hampshire. He attended Bates College where he received a B.A. in 1972, Magna Cum Laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He spent his junior year abroad at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. He earned an M.A.

#893

Peter Ordeshook

#39935

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Peter Carl Ordeshook is an American political scientist. He is the Mary Stillman Harkness Professor of Political Science at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Texas at Austin , where he served as the Frank C. Erwin Jr. Centennial Chair in Government. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from 1975 to 1976, and he was the president of the Public Choice Society from 1986 to 1988. He has been a professor at Caltech since 1987. He...

#894

John Zaller

#39330

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

John Raymond 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 studies at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.

#895

Mary Hawkesworth

#12871

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Mary Hawkesworth is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is a political scientist trained in feminist theory and has conducted extensive research in women and politics, gender, and contemporary feminist activism. Hawkesworth was previously the Editor-in-Chief of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, an internationally recognized journal in feminist scholarship.

#896

Melina Abdullah

Melina Abdullah

#20001

Overall Influence

Melina Abdullah is an American academic and civic leader. She is the former chair of the department of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and is a co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and Black Lives Matter Grassroots, where she is also the co-director.

#897

Richard H. Solomon

#38948

Overall Influence

1937 - 2017 (80 years)

Richard Harvey Solomon was an American diplomat and academic who served as Director of Policy Planning from 1986 to 1989, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1989 to 1992, and U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines from 1992 to 1993. In September 1993, he became president of the United States Institute of Peace, a position he held until September 2012. He subsequently joined the RAND Corporation as a Senior Fellow.

#898

Nivedita Menon

#15031

Overall Influence

Nivedita Menon is a writer and a professor of political thought at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She previously taught at Lady Shri Ram College and the Department of Political Science at Delhi University.

#899

David Lazer

#41460

Overall Influence

David Lazer is a distinguished professor of political science and computer and information science at Northeastern University, as well as the co-director of the NULab of Texts, Maps, and Networks. Life

#900

Simon Caney

#24134

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Simon Caney is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Warwick and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Caney studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Merton College, Oxford, and was a postgraduate student of G. A. Cohen at Nuffield College, Oxford. He taught at the University of Newcastle, the University of Birmingham, and at Magdalen College, at the University of Oxford before taking up his position at Warwick as Professor of Political Theory.

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