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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#1101

Steven R. David

#34863

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Steven R. David is Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in international politics and security issues. Education and positions David earned his B.A. in political science from Union College in 1972. In 1975, he completed his M.A. in East Asian studies from Stanford University, and in 1977 received an M.A. from Harvard University in political science. In 1980, David earned his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. He was a post-doctoral fellow in Harvard's National Security Program for the following year.

#1102

Mala Htun

#28313

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

#1103

Bernd Ladwig

#47807

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Bernd Ladwig is a German political philosopher who is a Professor of Political Theory and Political Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. He studied political science at the Free University of Berlin from 1988 to 1994, and then read for a doctorate in philosophy at Berlin's Humboldt University, graduating in 1999. He took up a research post at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg from 2000 to 2004, before becoming a juniorprofessor in modern political theory at the Free University of Berlin. In 2011, he became a Univ.-Prof..

#1104

Ken Jowitt

#32170

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Kenneth Jowitt is an American political scientist. He was the President and Maurine Hotchkis Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Robson Professor, emeritus, of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, positions he has held since 2001 and 1995 respectively.

#1105

Lois Rice

#22176

Overall Influence

1933 - 2017 (84 years)

Lois Ann Dickson Fitt Rice was an American corporate executive, scholar, and education policy expert. Known as the ‘‘mother of the Pell Grant” because of her work lobbying for its creation, she was national vice president of the College Board from 1973 until 1981. According to the Wall Street Journal, she was “among the first wave of African-American women serving on boards of major US corporations,” and under president Bill Clinton, she was a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. For years, she was an economic studies expert at the Brookings Institution concentrating on edu...

#1106

Catherine Boone

#50937

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Catherine Boone is Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Boone is a specialist in property rights, political economy, and territorial politics in Africa.

#1107

Johannes Tuchel

#56982

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Johannes Tuchel is a German political scientist. He is currently head of the German Resistance Memorial Centre museum and chief executive of the foundation responsible for it. Life Tuchel was born in Hamburg. Between 1977 and 1981 he studied political science at University of Hamburg and at the Free University of Berlin where in 1989 he received his doctorate in political science. His dissertation "Concentration Camps: Organisational and Operational History of the Concentration Camp Inspectorate 1934-1938" "Konzentrationslager: Organisationsgeschichte und Funktion der "Inspektion der Konz...

#1108

Mackubin Thomas Owens

#26122

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Mackubin Thomas Owens is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. From 2015 until 2018, he served as dean of academic affairs at the Institute of World Politics. He was previously the associate dean of academics for electives and directed research and professor of strategy and force planning for the Naval War College in the U.S., as well as a contributing editor to National Review.

#1109

Naseer Aruri

#29203

Overall Influence

1934 - 2015 (81 years)

Naseer H. Aruri was an American scholar-activist and expert on Middle East politics, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and human rights. Aruri was Chancellor Professor of Political Science, having served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth from 1965-1998. In 1993, he was the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences “Distinguished Research Award”. Aruri’s papers have been preserved and are on display at the Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections at UMASS-Dartmouth.

#1110

Thomas Pepinsky

#44895

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Thomas B. Pepinsky is an American academic of comparative politics and international political economy whose work focuses on Maritime Southeast Asia. He is the Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government and Director of the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University. Since 2018 Pepinsky has been a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

#1111

Nuray Mert

#30534

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Nuray Mert, is a Turkish columnist and political scientist. She is a columnist for Hürriyet Daily News. Mert is also a Bilderberg participant. Academic career After graduating from Feyziye Mektepleri Işık College, she studied political science and history at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, where she obtained the master's degree on a thesis entitled Prens Sabahaddin ve Terakki Mecmuası , and the doctorate on a thesis entitled Erken Cumhuriyet Döneminde Laik Düşünce . She worked for some time as a research assistant at Boğaziçi University, after which she became lecturer at the Department of Eco...

#1112

Mahmood Sariolghalam

#38280

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Mahmood Sariolghalam is a professor of international relations at the School of Economics and Political Science in Shahid Beheshti University since 1987. He was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1959. He received his B.A. degree in political science/management from California State University, Northridge in 1980 and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in international relations from the University of Southern California in 1982 and 1987, respectively. Sariolghalam also completed a postdoctorate program at Ohio University in 1997. During the 2009–2010 academic year, he taught at Kuwait University. He is curr...

#1113

William G. Hyland

#37938

Overall Influence

1929 - 2008 (79 years)

William George Hyland was Deputy National Security Advisor to President of the United States Gerald Ford and editor of Foreign Affairs magazine. Early life and education William G. Hyland was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1929. He was educated at the Washington University in St. Louis, where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, graduating with a B.A. in History. After college, he spent 1950–53 in the 2nd Armored Division of the United States Army; during this time, he was stationed in West Germany. He did graduate work at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, receiving an M.A.

#1114

Jonas Gahr Støre

#33470

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Jonas Gahr Støre is a Norwegian politician who has served as the 36th and current Prime Minister of Norway since 2021 and has been Leader of the Labour Party since 2014. He served under Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2012 and as Minister of Health and Care Services from 2012 to 2013. He has been a Member of the Storting for Oslo since 2009.

#1115

Michael Loewe

#16460

Overall Influence

1922 - Present (102 years)

Michael Arthur Nathan Loewe is a British sinologist, historian, and writer who has authored dozens of books, articles, and other publications in the fields of Classical Chinese as well as the history of ancient and early Imperial China.

#1116

Thomas Ferguson

#22380

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Thomas Ferguson is an American political scientist and author who writes on politics and economics, often within a historical perspective. He is best known for his Investment Theory of Party Competition, described in detail in his 1995 book Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-driven Political Systems.

#1117

John Keane

#33464

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Born in southern Australia, John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney. For 25 years he also held a position at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin , which he resigned from in November 2023.

#1118

Maya Forstater

#22578

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Maya Forstater is a British business studies and international development researcher who is the claimant in Forstater v Centre for Global Development Europe. The case established that gender critical views are protected as a belief under the Equality Act 2010, while stating that the judgment does not permit misgendering transgender people with impunity. At a subsequent full merits hearing, the Employment Tribunal upheld Forstater's case, concluding that she had suffered direct discrimination on the basis of her gender critical beliefs. The judgement for remedies was handed down in June 2023,...

#1119

Stephan Haggard

#40820

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Stephan Haggard is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies at the School of Global Policy and Strategy and distinguished professor of political scientist specializing in comparative politics at the University of California San Diego. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley and taught in the Government Department at Harvard before joining the faculty at UC San Diego. He teaches courses on international political economy, the international relations of the Asia-Pacific and qualitative methods. He is currently the editor of the Journal of East ...

#1120

Marie Gottschalk

#22862

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Marie Gottschalk is an American political scientist and professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, known for her work on mass incarceration in the United States. Gottschalk is the author of The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America and Caught: the Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics . Her research investigates the origins of the carceral state in the United States, the critiques of the scope and size of the carceral network, and the intersections of the carceral state with race and economic inequality.

#1121

Thomas Cronin

#45845

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Thomas Edward Cronin is a political scientist. He was president of Whitman College from 1993 to 2005. He was the McHugh Professor of American Institutions and Leadership at Colorado College. Cronin's field of study is the 'expanding power of the American presidency in the 20th century'. He has also written extensively on American elections, political novels and movies.

#1122

Ralph C. Hancock

#40665

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Ralph Cornel Hancock is a professor of political science at Brigham Young University . Biography Hancock holds a BA from BYU and an MA and PhD from Harvard University, all in political science. Before joining BYU's faculty Hancock was on the faculty at Hillsdale College and then at the University of Idaho. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Rennes.

#1123

Esther Brimmer

#37327

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Esther Diane Brimmer is an American foreign policy expert and former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. In June 2013, she left her post as Assistant Secretary and returned to academia.

#1124

Eileen McDonagh

#20990

Overall Influence

Eileen McDonagh is an American political scientist. She is a professor of political science at Northeastern University. She has published works on topics like women's participation in politics, gender imbalances in sport, and abortion law.

#1125

Patrick M. Regan

#47732

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Patrick M. Regan is a professor of Political Science and Peace Studies at University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on International Relations and Conflict Management. Biography Regan was born in Dearborn, Michigan and is one of five children born to Michael and Susanne Regan. Regan attended Western Michigan University for his Bachelor's Degree, New York University for his Master's Degree and University of Michigan for his phD. He was also a member of the Peace Corps after receiving his undergraduate degree and travelled to Calcutta to work with Mother Teresa for six weeks.

#1126

Alvin S. Felzenberg

#27137

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Alvin Stephen Felzenberg is an American author, columnist, consultant, educator, historian, public official, and spokesperson. He served as spokesperson of the 9/11 Commission. He has authored books on American history and biographies of U.S. presidents, including The Leaders We Deserved and A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley, Jr. .

#1127

Judith Stiehm

#26352

Overall Influence

Judith Hicks Stiehm is an American political scientist. She is a professor of political science at Florida International University. She studies civil-military relations in the United States, processes of social change, and the status of women. She has published books on the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance, the results of mandated orders to admit women to the United States Air Force Academy, and the functioning of the U.S. Army War College. She was the first woman to be a university provost in State University System of Florida.

#1128

Randall Hansen

#51261

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Randall Hansen is a political scientist and historian at the University of Toronto, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Global Migration in the Department of Political Science. He is also Director of the Global Migration Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Hansen taught at the Queen Mary University of London and the University of Oxford before taking up his current position.

#1129

Stanley Kurtz

#11010

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (123 years)

Stanley Kurtz is an American conservative commentator, author and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He has taught at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. He is also a contributing editor to National Review.

#1130

Klaus Törnudd

#41576

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Klaus Mattias Törnudd is a Finnish diplomat and researcher in politics and international politics. He has been a professor and ambassador for political science. The parents of Klaus Törnudd were the translator Allan Viktor Törnudd and Helene Margareta Niininen, a child care inspector who became known as a writer. He belongs to his father's side in to the Törnudd family.

#1131

Mark Bevir

#22069

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Mark Bevir is a British philosopher of history. He is a professor of political science and the Director of the Center for British Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently teaches courses on political theory and philosophy, public policy and organisation, and methodology. He is also a Professor in the Graduate School of Governance, United Nations University and a Distinguished Research Professor in the College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University.

#1132

Paul E. Peterson

#38443

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Paul E. Peterson is an American scholar on education reform. His work has largely focused on the importance of parental choice for improving school outcomes. He is Editor-In-Chief of Education Next, an educational policy journal published by the Hoover Institution advocating for K-12 education reform in the United States. He is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

#1133

James M. Lindsay

James M. Lindsay

#55153

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

James M. Lindsay , is the senior vice president, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations and a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy. He is also the award-winning coauthor of America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy and former director for global issues and multilateral affairs at the National Security Council. In 2008, he was the principal author of a Department of Defense funded $7.6 million Minerva Research Initiative grant entitled "Climate Change, State Stability, and Political Risk in Africa." He is the author of a CFR blo...

#1134

Jewel Prestage

#24897

Overall Influence

1931 - 2014 (83 years)

Jewel Limar Prestage was an American political scientist, citizen activist, educator, mentor, and author. She is the first African-American woman to receive a doctorate in political science in the United States. Prestage mentored many others in her field, which is how she received the title, "The Mother of Black Political Science." Prestage conducted ample research on African Americans' role in the political process. In 1977, she co-authored the anthology A Portrait of Marginality, which examines the political socialization of Black women.

#1135

Kelly Kadera

#56173

Overall Influence

Kelly M. Kadera is an American political scientist, currently a professor at the University of Iowa. She studies international conflict, democratic survival, and gender in academia using formal theory, dynamic modeling, and empirical methods.

#1136

Leonard Binder

#55883

Overall Influence

1927 - 2015 (88 years)

Leonard Binder was an American political scientist. He was a distinguished professor of political science and the former director of the Near East Center at the University of California, Los Angeles . Binder was also Chair of the Political Science Departments of UCLA and the University of Chicago. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002

#1137

Louis René Beres

#32020

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Louis René Beres is emeritus professor of political science and international law at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He was born on August 31, 1945, in Zürich, Switzerland, and earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1971. Beres has written many books and currently also writes editorials for various major newspapers and magazines.

#1138

Vanessa C. Tyson

#30975

Overall Influence

Vanessa Catherine Tyson is an American political scientist and politician. She is an associate professor of politics at Scripps College and a political science fellow at Stanford University. Tyson was an unsuccessful candidate for California's 57th State Assembly district in the 2020 election, finishing in fifth place with 8.6% of the vote in the nonpartisan primary.

#1139

Ken Starr

#12673

Overall Influence

1946 - 2022 (76 years)

Kenneth Winston Starr was an American lawyer and judge who as independent counsel authored the Starr Report, which served as the basis of the impeachment of Bill Clinton. He headed an investigation of members of the Clinton administration, known as the Whitewater controversy, from 1994 to 1998. Starr previously served as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1983 to 1989 and as the U.S. solicitor general from 1989 to 1993 during the presidency of George H. W. Bush.

#1140

Hélène Landemore

#33306

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Hélène Landemore is Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She has a PhD from Harvard University. Her subfield is political theory and she is known for her works on democratic theory. Biography After a childhood spent in Normandy, Landemore began higher studies in Paris at the age of 18. She joined the École Normale and Sciences Po Paris. In 2008 she received a Ph.D. from Harvard University with a thesis on the idea of collective intelligence applied to the justification of democracy.

#1141

Katrin Suder

#12287

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Katrin Suder is a German physicist and management consultant who served as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2014 to 2018. Early life and education Suder was born in Mainz on 29 September 1971. She studied physics at RWTH Aachen. In 2000, she received her doctorate in neuroinformatics at the Ruhr University Bochum. Suder also received a bachelor's degree in theater and linguistics there. She was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation.

#1142

Robert A. Scalapino

#43231

Overall Influence

1919 - 2011 (92 years)

Robert Anthony Scalapino was an American political scientist particularly involved in East Asian studies. He was one of the founders and first chairman of the National Committee on United States – China Relations. Together with his co-author Chong-Sik Lee, he won the 1974 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs as awarded by the American Political Science Association. Scalapino's daughters include the artist Diane Sophia and poet Leslie Scalapino .

#1143

Colin Kahl

#33534

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Colin Hackett Kahl is an American government official and academic who served as under secretary of defense for policy in the administration of President Joe Biden from April 28, 2021, to July 14, 2023. Previously, he served as national security advisor to the vice president under then-Vice President Joe Biden . After the Obama administration, Kahl served as a Steven C. Házy Senior Fellow at Stanford University.

#1144

Robert Joseph

#51241

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Robert G. Joseph is a senior scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy. He was the United States Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation, with ambassadorial rank. Prior to this post, Joseph was the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, a position he held until January 24, 2007. Joseph is known for being instrumental in creating the Proliferation Security Initiative and as the architect of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. He was also the US chief negotiator to Libya in 2003 who convinced the Libyans to give up their WMD programs. ...

#1145

Jean-Claude Colliard

#24048

Overall Influence

1946 - 2014 (68 years)

Jean-Claude Colliard was a French academic and senior public servant. Colliard was born in Paris. He graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies , and obtained a Ph.D. in law from the University of Paris. He also held an agrégation in Public Law and Political Science.

#1146

Louise Richardson

Louise Richardson

#14320

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Dame Louise Mary Richardson is an Irish political scientist whose specialist field is the study of terrorism. In January 2023, she became president of the philanthropic foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York. In January 2016, she became the vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, having formerly been the principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St Andrews, and as the executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her leadership at the University of Oxford played an important role in the successful development of a vaccine to combat CO...

#1147

Bella Abzug

#20007

Overall Influence

1920 - 1998 (78 years)

Bella Savitzky Abzug , nicknamed "Battling Bella", was an American lawyer, politician, social activist, and a leader in the women's movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus. She was a leading figure in what came to be known as eco-feminism.

#1148

Paddy Ashdown

#30480

Overall Influence

1941 - 2018 (77 years)

Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, , better known as Paddy Ashdown, was a British politician and diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 to 1999. Internationally, he is recognised for his role as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2006, following his vigorous lobbying for military action against Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

#1149

Bernard Grofman

Bernard Grofman

#30682

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

#1150

Merle Black

#49145

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

P. Merle Black is a retired American political scientist. He was formerly Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Political Science at Emory University. He specializes in Southern politics, particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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