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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#1301

Don K. Price

#50078

Overall Influence

1910 - 1995 (85 years)

Don Krasher Price was an American political scientist who served as the founding dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1958 to 1976. He wrote a number of books about United States history and government.

#1302

Birch Bayh

#17515

Overall Influence

1928 - 2019 (91 years)

Birch Evans Bayh Jr. was an American Democratic Party politician who served as U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1963 to 1981. He was first elected to office in 1954, when he won election to the Indiana House of Representatives; in 1958, he was elected Speaker, the youngest person to hold that office in the state's history. In 1962, he ran for the U.S. Senate, narrowly defeating incumbent Republican Homer E. Capehart. Shortly after entering the Senate, he became Chairman of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, and in that role authored two constitutional amendments: the Twenty-fifth—wh...

#1303

John Minford

#9509

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

John Minford is a British sinologist and literary translator. He is primarily known for his translation of Chinese classics such as 40 chapters of The Story of the Stone, The Art of War, the I Ching and the Tao Te Ching. He has also translated Louis Cha's wuxia novel The Deer and the Cauldron and a selection of Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.

#1304

Marisa Lino

#30471

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Marisa Linois an Italian-born American retired diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Albania between 1996 and 1999. Early life Lino was born in the Free Territory of Trieste, today part of Italy, but grew up in Portland, Oregon from the age of five. She received an M.A. in international affairs from The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs in 1972 and B.A. in political science from Portland State University in 1971. In May 1999, she received an honorary doctorate of international affairs from John Cabot University. She also completed a Certificate in Advanced Engineering Studies at M.I.T.

#1305

Katherine Tate

#72753

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Katherine Tate is an American political scientist best known for her research on race and ethnic minority politics. She is a professor of Political Science at Brown University. Biography Tate received her B.A. in political science from the University of Chicago in 1983, and her M.A. in 1985 from the University of Michigan. She completed her Ph.D. in political science from Michigan in 1989. After working at Harvard University and serving as an associate professor of political science at Ohio State University she became a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.

#1306

Douglas Kmiec

#22747

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Douglas William Kmiec is an American legal scholar, author, and former U.S. ambassador. He is the Caruso Family Chair and Professor of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University School of Law. Kmiec came to prominence during the 2008 United States presidential election when, although a Republican, he endorsed Democrat Barack Obama. In July 2009, he was nominated by President Obama to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Malta. He was confirmed by the Senate and served for close to two years as ambassador to Malta. He resigned his post effective May 31, 2011.

#1307

David J. Jackson

#47968

Overall Influence

David J. Jackson is a political science professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He specializes in the relationships between entertainment and politics. He holds a BA from the University of Detroit, an MA from BGSU, and a Ph.D. from Wayne State University.

#1308

Donald J. Savoie

Donald J. Savoie

#41632

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Donald Joseph Savoie is a Canadian public administration and regional economic development scholar. He serves as a professor at l'Université de Moncton. In 2015, he was awarded the Killam Prize for his contribution to the field of social sciences.

#1309

Ted Osius

#18715

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Theodore George Osius III is an American diplomat and the former United States Ambassador to Vietnam. Early life and education Osius grew up in Annapolis, Maryland. He attended The Putney School in Vermont, graduating in 1979.

#1310

Keith Spicer

#28357

Overall Influence

Keith Spicer was a Canadian academic, public servant, journalist, and writer. Between 1970 and 1977, Spicer was Canada's first Commissioner of Official Languages. Education Spicer held a BA in Modern Languages from Victoria College, University of Toronto ; the Diplôme en relations internationales from l'Institut d'Études Politiques , Paris ; and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto .

#1311

Clinton Fernandes

#50145

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Clinton Fernandes is an Australian historian and academic who is professor of international and political studies at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia, part of the Australian Defence Force Academy. His work is primarily concerned with Australia’s national security, in particular intelligence matters and Australia's relations with its Southeast Asian neighbours.

#1312

Daniel P. Aldrich

Daniel P. Aldrich

#31099

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Daniel P. Aldrich is an academic in the fields of political science, public policy and Asian studies. He is currently full professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University. Aldrich has held several Fulbright fellowships, including a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy at Flinders University in Australia in 2023, a Fulbright Specialist in Trinidad-Tobago in 2018, a Fulbright research fellowship at the University of Tokyo's Economic's Department for the 2012–2013 academic year, and a IIE Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship in Tokyo in 2002–2003. His...

#1313

Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

#23213

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman is an English political theorist, academic, social commentator, and Labour life peer in the House of Lords. He is a senior lecturer in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University, Director of its Faith and Citizenship Programme and a columnist for the New Statesman, UnHerd, Tablet and Spiked. He is best known as a founder of Blue Labour, a term he coined in 2009.

#1314

Myriam Benraad

#41563

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

Myriam Benraad is a French political scientist. She specializes in the politics of the Arab world. Career Benraad graduated from the Institut d'études politiques in 2002. She then received her PhD in political science from the same institution in 2011.

#1315

Alastair Iain Johnston

#58719

Overall Influence

Alastair Iain Johnston is the Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs in the Government Department of Harvard University. His work focuses on contemporary Chinese foreign policy and international relations. He has a BA in International Relations and History from the University of Toronto , an MA in East Asian Studies from Harvard University , and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan , where his advisors were Robert Axelrod, Albert Feuerwerker, Kenneth Lieberthal, and Michel Oksenberg.

#1316

Walker Connor

#34821

Overall Influence

1926 - 2017 (91 years)

Walker F. Connor was Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College . Connor is best known for his work on nationalism, and is considered one of the founders of the interdisciplinary field of nationalism studies.

#1317

Temur Iakobashvili

#46524

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Temuri Yakobashvili is a Georgian political scientist, diplomat, and politician, serving as State Minister for Reintegration since 2008; he was named Deputy Prime Minister in 2009. On 20 November 2010 his nomination as Ambassador to the United States was announced. After change of government in Georgia he resigned on 8 November 2013.

#1318

Lyndon LaRouche

#27749

Overall Influence

1922 - 2019 (97 years)

Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. was an American political activist who founded the LaRouche movement and its main organization, the National Caucus of Labor Committees . He was a prominent conspiracy theorist and perennial presidential candidate. He began in far-left politics but in the 1970s moved to the far-right. His movement is sometimes described as, or likened to, a cult. Convicted of fraud, he served five years in prison from 1989 to 1994.

#1319

Terje Tvedt

#30651

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Terje Tvedt is a Norwegian academic, author and documentary film maker. Tvedt is presently a professor at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen, and Professor in Global History, University of Oslo, Norway. He has previously been a professor of political science and development studies.

#1320

Edward J. Perkins

Edward J. Perkins

#32612

Overall Influence

1928 - 2020 (92 years)

Edward Joseph Perkins was an American career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, the United Nations, and Australia. He also served as the director of the United States State Department's Diplomatic Corps.

#1321

Emil Constantinescu

#32485

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Emil Constantinescu is a Romanian professor and politician, who served as the President of Romania, from 1996 to 2000. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Constantinescu became a founding member and vice president of the Civic Alliance . In addition, he also served as the acting president of the Democratic Romanian Anti-Totalitarian Forum, the first associative structure of the democratic opposition in post-1989 Romania, which was later transformed into a centre-right political and electoral alliance known as the Romanian Democratic Convention . He had also subsequently presided the People's Action party from the early 2000s until it merged into the National Liberal Party in 2008.

#1322

Hans Noel

#65895

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Hans C. Noel is an American political scientist. He is an associate professor at Georgetown University's Department of Government. Noel graduated from Northwestern University 1994 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. He pursued graduate studies at UCLA's Department of Political Science .

#1323

Clay Constantinou

Clay Constantinou

#43463

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Clay Constantinou is an American lawyer and diplomat. He served as US Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1994 to 1999 and as Dean of the Whitehead School of Diplomacy at Seton Hall University from 1999 to 2005. He is currently Of Counsel at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. a law firm based in Woodbridge, NJ.

#1324

Keith T. Poole

#40558

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Keith T. Poole is an American political scientist and the Philip H. Alston Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia. He has compiled and maintained datasets related to the United States Congress for forty years, and he has made them available on his website, Voteview, since 1995. Poole originally developed Voteview as a DOS program with Howard Rosenthal at Carnegie-Mellon University from 1989 to 1992. He also worked with Rosenthal on the development of the NOMINATE multidimensional scaling method to assess the voting behavior of members of Congress along a given dimension.

#1325

Inocencio Arias

#38245

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Inocencio F. Arias, also known as Chencho , is a multifarious Spanish diplomat, who served as consul general in Los Angeles, California, United States. He retired in 2010. Career His previous assignment was as Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations in New York City. In the Security Council he presided the Antiterrorism Committee of the United Nations. Previously, he served as State Secretary for International cooperation and for Ibero-American Affairs and as Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .

#1326

Tiago C. Peixoto

#30729

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Tiago Carneiro Peixoto is a Brazilian political scientist and Senior Governance Specialist at the World Bank, who promotes participatory democracy and digital government around the globe. Recognized as an expert in e-democracy and participatory democracy, he was nominated as one of the most innovative people in democracy, as well as one of the 100 most influential people in digital government.

#1327

Meyrav Wurmser

#61668

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Meyrav Wurmser is an Israeli-American neoconservative political executive. Biography Meyrav Wurmser wrote her Ph.D. thesis on Revisionist Zionism behind the Herut and Likud parties, and received her doctorate in political science at George Washington University in 1998. She went on to teach political science at Johns Hopkins University and the US Naval Academy. She is married to Swiss-born American David Wurmser, former Middle East Adviser to US Vice President Dick Cheney.

#1328

Floyd M. Riddick

Floyd M. Riddick

#57231

Overall Influence

1908 - 2000 (92 years)

Floyd Millard Riddick was a Parliamentarian of the United States Senate from 1964 to 1974, and is most famous for developing Riddick's Senate procedure. He sat immediately below the presiding officer in the Senate chamber, providing information on precedents and advising other senators on parliamentary procedure. He is famous for discussions of the censures of Joseph McCarthy and Thomas Dodd, the contested election between John A. Durkin and Louis Wyman, and the preparations for a planned impeachment trial of Richard Nixon. He is also famous for advocating the change in the rules of cloture.

#1329

Shahram Akbarzadeh

#54451

Overall Influence

Prof. Shahram Akbarzadeh is based at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to his commencing his appointment at Deakin University in 2014, he was professor of Middle Eastern politics at the University of Melbourne. Akbarzadeh completed his M.A. in Russian and East European Studies at Birmingham University in 1992 and acquired a PhD at La Trobe University in 1998. He served as the Central and West Asia Councillor for the Asian Studies Association of Australia from 1999 to 2004. His numerous publications include works on Middle East politics, Central Asian politics and the politics of...

#1330

Ali Larijani

#39752

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Ali Ardeshir Larijani is an Iranian conservative politician, philosopher and former military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Iran from 2008 to 2020. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council.

#1331

Eric Helleiner

#57653

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Eric Helleiner is an author and professor of political science and the Faculty of Arts Chair in International Political Economy at the University of Waterloo, and a professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the Department of International Relations of the London School of Economics, and received a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Toronto.

#1332

Leslie McCall

#35963

Overall Influence

Leslie McCall is an American sociologist and political scientist. She is a Presidential Professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and the Associate Director of the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality there. She studies wealth and social inequality in American society, as well as opinions about inequality, from an intersectional perspective.

#1333

Keith Krause

#40721

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Keith Krause is a Canadian political scientist known for his work on international security and armed violence. Background Krause was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford where he got his MPhil and DPhil. Since 1994, Krause is Professor of political science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Since 1999, Krause is also the Director of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding at that same institution.

#1334

Jean-François Bayart

#30335

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Jean-François Bayart is a French political scientist and former director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. His specialty is the comparative historical sociology of the state.

#1335

Claude Ake

#32464

Overall Influence

1939 - 1996 (57 years)

Claude Ake was a Nigerian political scientist from Omoku, in Rivers State, Nigeria. Ake was considered "one of Africa's foremost political philosophers." He specialized in political economy, political theory, and development studies and is well known for his research on development and democracy in Africa. He was professor of political economy and dean of the University of Port Harcourt's Faculty of Social Sciences for some years in the 1970s and 1980s after having taught at Columbia University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1966. He held various academic positions at institutions around the...

#1336

Robert O'Neill

#31209

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Robert John O'Neill, was an Australian historian and academic. He served as the chair of the International Academic Advisory Committee at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, was director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, based in London, from 1982 to 1987, and was Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford from 1987 to 2000.

#1337

Ronald Sanders

#40676

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Sir Ronald Michael Sanders is an Antiguan Barbudan diplomat, academic former broadcast-journalist, and the current Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States and to the Organization of American States since 2015. He is also the non-resident High Commissioner to Canada since 2017. He served twice as Antigua's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom as well as ambassador and negotiator to the World Trade Organization . He was a member and Rapporteur of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group that produced a seminal report entitled, A Commonwealth of the People: Time for Urgent Reform that laid out a plan of action to make the Commonwealth effective and relevant.

#1338

Bruno Étienne

#18578

Overall Influence

1937 - 2009 (72 years)

Bruno Étienne was a French sociologist, freemason and a political analyst. He was a specialist of Algeria, Islam and anthropology of the religious and masonic fact. He graduated in Arabic-language and political sciences at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence and the University of Tunis. Bruno Étienne was a researcher in Cairo and was a teacher at the ENA-Algiers, at the law faculty of Algiers and the universities of Casablanca and Marmara. He was also director of researches at the CNRS.

#1339

Ian McAllister

#48527

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Ian McAllister FASSA FRSE is the Distinguished Professor of political science at the Australian National University. He earned his PhD in political science in 1976 from University of Strathclyde. He is a leading election specialist with a research focus on Australian politics which involves co-directing the Australian Election Study, a national survey of political opinion conducted after each federal election since 1987 at the Australian National University. He is a leading scholar in individual level political survey research.

#1340

Mitchell A. Seligson

#61203

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Mitchell A. Seligson is the Centennial Professor of Political Science and Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. He founded and is Senior Advisor to the Latin American Public Opinion Project , which conducts the AmericasBarometer surveys that currently cover 27 countries in the Americas. Seligson has published many books and papers on political science topics. He was elected to membership in the General Assembly of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights in 2011.

#1341

Jeanne Lambrew

#21948

Overall Influence

Jeanne Lambrew is a United States professor of public affairs and health policy. She served in the Obama administration as Deputy Director of the White House Office of Health Reform. In December 2018, Lambrew was nominated to serve as Commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services by Governor-elect Janet Mills.

#1342

Kan Kimura

#38609

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Kan Kimura is a Japanese scholar of political studies and area studies. He is now a professor at Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University, Japan. Career Kimura was born in 1966 in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He studied at Kyoto University and received his L.L.D. in 2001 for his first book, Chosen/Kankoku Nashonarizumu to 'Shokoku-Ishiki .

#1343

Florian Bieber

#51500

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Florian Bieber is a Luxembourgian political scientist, historian and professor working on inter-ethnic relations, ethnic conflict and nationalism, focusing primarily on the Balkans. Education In 1991–1992, Bieber studied history, political science, economics, and languages at Trinity College. He received a magister degree in history and political science with honors on the topic "Bosnia-Herzegovina and Lebanon: A comparative Study“ in 1997.

#1344

Juliana Geran Pilon

#37867

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Juliana Geran Pilon is a Romanian-born naturalized American writer. She is currently a senior fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization in Clinton, New York. She previously was professor of politics and culture and director of the Center for Culture and Security at The Institute of World Politics.

#1345

Stéphane François

#20054

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Stéphane François is a French political scientist who specializes on radical right-wing movements. He also studies conspiracy theories, political ecology and countercultures. Life and career Born on 1 January 1973, Stéphane François attended Lille 2 University of Health and Law, where he obtained a PhD in political science after a doctoral thesis on the "Paganism of the Nouvelle Droite."

#1346

Martin Shefter

#53950

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Martin Allen Shefter was an American political scientist and author who was a professor emeritus in the Department of Government at Cornell University. He is noted for his research on New York City politics and on how changes in the international system shape political institutions and the conduct of politics in the United States.

#1347

Mark R. Nemec

#32527

Overall Influence

Mark R. Nemec is the ninth person and first layperson to serve as the President of the Fairfield University. Nemec was previously the Dean of the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Chicago.

#1348

Derek Chollet

#40456

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Derek Chollet is an American foreign policy advisor and author currently serving as the counselor of the United States Department of State. Previously, Chollet was the executive vice president for security and defense policy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. From 2012 to 2015, Chollet was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, where he managed U.S. defense policy involving Europe, NATO, the Middle East, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere for Secretaries of Defense Leon Panetta and Chuck Hagel.

#1349

Virginia Tilley

Virginia Tilley

#29517

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Virginia Tilley is an American political scientist specialising in the comparative study of ethnic and racial conflict. She is Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in the US.

#1350

Thomas Rid

#35996

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Thomas Rid is a political scientist best known for his work on the history and risks of information technology in conflict. He is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Previously he was a professor of security studies at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.

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