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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#1551

Michael Nacht

#72556

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Michael Leonard Nacht is an American government official and an author of five books and 70 journal articles. Born in New York City, Nacht graduated from Christopher Columbus High School in 1959. He earned a B.S. degree in aeronautics and astronautics from New York University in 1963, an M.S. degree in statistics from Case Western Reserve University in 1966, an M.S. degree in operations research from New York University in 1969, an M.A. degree in political science from the New School for Social Research in 1970 and a Ph.D. degree in political science from Columbia University in 1973.

#1552

Stuart Butler

#47422

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Stuart M. Butler is a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. Until 2014, he was Director of the Center for Policy Innovation at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank in Washington, D.C. He is a health care analyst and commentator, and he has also written extensively about urban policy and welfare, credited with introducing the idea of urban enterprise zones to the United States. Butler was an adjunct professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute.

#1553

Thomas Diez

#63156

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Thomas Diez is a German professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Institute for Political Science, University of Tübingen. He was formerly Professor of International Relations Theory in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he was Head of department from 2005 to 2008. Diez earned his PhD at the University of Mannheim. He was formerly a Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute where he worked with Barry Buzan and Ole Waever. He studies international relations theory, European integration an...

#1554

M. A. Muqtedar Khan

M. A. Muqtedar Khan

#27882

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Muhammad Abdul Muqtedar Khan is an Indian American academic and a professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. Khan is the founding director of the Islamic Studies Program at the university. He chaired the Department of Political Science and was Director of International Studies at Adrian College. He was a senior non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 2003 to 2008. He was a senior fellow of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding from 2011-2014 and is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Policy since 2014.

#1555

John Rensenbrink

#43625

Overall Influence

1928 - 2022 (94 years)

John C. Rensenbrink was an American political scientist, philosopher, journalist, conservationist, and political activist. He has initiated and helped found many organizations, the most prominent of which are the Maine Green Party ; the Green Party of the United States for both of which he was a principal founder; and CREA 2000 to the present, a hands-on ecological education project for local schools, schoolchildren and high school students in mid-coast Maine.

#1556

Mindy Finn

#27698

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Mindy Finn is an American digital media expert, political and technology consultant, and entrepreneur. She worked as a digital strategist for the Republican Party, most notably for George W. Bush and Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns in 2004 and 2008, respectively, and became the vice presidential candidate for Evan McMullin's 2016 presidential campaign. She co-founded the organizations Stand Up Republic and Empowered Women, and works to make elections more inclusive.

#1557

Dianne Pinderhughes

#36568

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Dianne Marie Pinderhughes is Full Professor in the Departments of Africana Studies and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, and former President of the American Political Science Association. Since 2021 she is the president of the International Political Science Association. She holds a B.A. from Albertus Magnus College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Pinderhughes sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. She was American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow of 2019.

#1558

Chia-ying Yeh

#24828

Overall Influence

1924 - Present (100 years)

Florence Chia-ying Yeh , also known as Ye Jiaying , Jialing , and by her married name Chia-ying Yeh Chao, is a Chinese-born Canadian poet and sinologist. She was a scholar of classical Chinese poetry. She taught for twenty years at the University of British Columbia , and has been Professor Emerita since her retirement in 1989. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. After retiring from UBC, she has been teaching at Nankai University in Tianjin where she is the founding Director of the Institute of Chinese Classical Culture.

#1559

Antonia Grunenberg

Antonia Grunenberg

#55470

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Antonia Grunenberg is a German political scientist, totalitarianism researcher and an expert on the political thought of Hannah Arendt. She is professor emerita at the University of Oldenburg, where she taught as a full professor from 1998 until her 2009 retirement, and where she was director of the Hannah Arendt Centre. She is also editor of the book series Hannah Arendt Studies.

#1560

Lucius Barker

#49164

Overall Influence

1928 - 2020 (92 years)

Lucius Jefferson Barker was an American political scientist. He was the Edna Fischel Gellhorn Professor and chair of the political science department at Washington University in St. Louis, and then the William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. He was an influential scholar of constitutional law and civil liberties, as well as race and ethnic politics in the United States. He published works on civil liberties in the United States and systemic racism. He was also involved with several presidential campaigns, and he wrote books about the Jesse Jackson 1984 pre...

#1561

Frank Aarebrot

#18571

Overall Influence

1947 - 2017 (70 years)

Frank Henrik Aarebrot was a Norwegian political scientist, political commentator, and professor of comparative politics. Among the most quoted and popular academics in the Norwegian press, he became better known during his later years for his televised "marathon lectures" and his recurring role in coverage of national and international elections on Norwegian television.

#1562

Don Brash

#38915

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Donald Thomas Brash is a former New Zealand politician who was Leader of the Opposition and leader of the New Zealand National Party from October 2003 to November 2006, and leader of the ACT New Zealand party for seven months from April to November 2011.

#1563

Lincoln P. Bloomfield

#52388

Overall Influence

1920 - 2013 (93 years)

Lincoln Palmer Bloomfield an American academic and expert on foreign affairs who served as a professor of political science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Biography Lincoln P. Bloomfield is the father of Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr., a United States Defense Department and State Department official.

#1564

Conor Cruise O'Brien

#35228

Overall Influence

1917 - 2008 (91 years)

Donal Conor David Dermot Donat Cruise O'Brien , often nicknamed "The Cruiser", was an Irish diplomat, politician, writer, historian and academic, who served as Minister for Posts and Telegraphs from 1973 to 1977, a Senator for Dublin University from 1977 to 1979, a Teachta Dála for the Dublin North-East constituency from 1969 to 1977, and a Member of the European Parliament from January 1973 to March 1973.

#1565

Shaun Breslin

#84584

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Shaun Breslin FAcSS is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He is considered as a leading British academic expert on Chinese politics and economy, globalization, regionalism, governance and international political economy.

#1566

Karen O'Connor

#64136

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Karen Paula O'Connor is the Jonathan N. Helfat Distinguished Professor of Political Science and a Distinguished Professor of Government at American University in Washington, D.C., where she is also the Founder and Director Emerita of the Women & Politics Institute.

#1567

Sharon Straus

#63212

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Sharon Elizabeth Straus is a professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Toronto, and geriatrician and Squires-Chalmers Chair and physician-in-chief at Unity Health Toronto. Straus was appointed as a member of the Order of Canada in 2021.

#1568

Abdul El-Sayed

#20937

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is an American politician, former public health professor, and civil servant serving as the director of the Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services for Wayne County. He was a candidate in Michigan's 2018 Democratic gubernatorial primary election, placing second out of three candidates. In September 2018, he founded Southpaw Michigan, a political action committee, to help elect other progressive candidates in Michigan.

#1569

Srgjan Kerim

#21386

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Srgjan Kerim is a Macedonian diplomat, economist, former Foreign Minister and President of the 62nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly. His term of office began on September 18, 2007 and ended on September 16, 2008. He is of Macedonian Turkish descent.

#1570

Laura Chinchilla

#38458

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Laura Chinchilla Miranda is a Costa Rican political scientist and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. She was one of Óscar Arias Sánchez's two Vice-Presidents and his administration's Minister of Justice. She was the governing PLN candidate for president in the 2010 general election, where she won with 46.76% of the vote on 7 February. She was the eighth woman president of a Latin American country and the first woman to become President of Costa Rica. She was sworn in as President of Costa Rica on 8 May 2010.

#1571

Carlo Masala

#49601

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Carlo Masala is professor for International Politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich, lecturer at the University of Munich, as well as lecturer and member of the senate of Munich School of Political Science.

#1572

Uri Gordon

#19565

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

#1573

Kay Lehman Schlozman

#68710

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Kay Lehman Schlozman is an American political scientist, currently the J. Joseph Moakley Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Schlozman has made fundamental advancements to the study of participation in American politics, and was a pioneer in the field of gender and politics. Her contributions include the theory of civic voluntarism, several landmark studies on the relationship between access to resources and different types of political participation, and related investigations into the nature of civic culture. Schlozman has one of the highest citation counts of any political sc...

#1574

Eva Kreisky

#55592

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Hannelore Eva Kreisky, née Zgraja is an Austrian political scientist and jurist. Biography She earned a doctorate in law at the University of Vienna in 1971, and studied political science at the Institut für Höhere Studien in Vienna, where she worked from 1972. She became head of department for the Department of Political Science in 1979, and earned her Habilitation in 1986–87. From 1989 to 1993, she was Professor of political science, in particular women's studies, at the Free University of Berlin. She was Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Vienna from 1993, and became Professor there in 1995.

#1575

Donald Downs

#58337

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Donald Alexander Downs is an American political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison known for his work on the First Amendment. Education Downs received his A.B. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

#1576

Leila Farsakh

#46025

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Leila Farsakh is a Palestinian political economist who was born in Jordan and is a Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Boston. Her area of expertise is Middle East Politics, Comparative Politics, and the Politics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Farsakh holds a MPhil from the University of Cambridge, UK and a PhD from the University of London .

#1577

Rik Coolsaet

#49827

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Rik Coolsaet is a Belgian academic. He is professor emeritus of International Relations at Ghent University and Senior Associate Fellow at Egmont Institute , Brussels. Coolsaet was invited to join the original European Commission Expert Group on Violent Radicalisation and the subsequent European Network of Experts on Radicalisation .

#1578

Yannis Stavrakakis

#10662

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Yannis Stavrakakis is a Greek–British political theorist. A member of the Essex School of discourse analysis, he is mainly known for his explorations of the importance of psychoanalytic theory for contemporary political and cultural analysis and for his discourse studies on populism.

#1579

Hiram Chodosh

#22213

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Hiram E. Chodosh is the 5th and current president of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. Early life and education Hiram Chodosh was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1962. Raised in nearby Hillside, he graduated from Hillside High School.

#1580

Simon Marginson

#23622

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Simon Marginson is an Australian academic who researches higher education. He held professorships in education or higher education at Monash University and the University of Melbourne before moving to the United Kingdom as professor of international higher education at University College London . As of 2021, he is the director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education and professor of higher education at the University of Oxford.

#1581

Michael Gallagher

#57358

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Michael Gallagher is a political scientist. He is Professor of Comparative Politics and head of the Department of Political Science at the Trinity College Dublin. Education Trained as a computer scientist, Gallagher combines his understanding of statistical analysis with his interests in politics. He holds a B.A. from Lancaster, two M.Sc. degrees, one from Essex and one from Strathclyde. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Strathclyde.

#1582

Raja Mohan

#35761

Overall Influence

Chilamkuri Raja Mohan is an Indian academic, journalist and foreign policy analyst. He is the Director of the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Previously, he was the founding Director of Carnegie India. He has also been a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and prior to that, a professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Professor of Centre for South, Central, Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies, School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

#1583

Karen Weaver

#22681

Overall Influence

Karen Weaver is an American psychologist and politician who was the mayor of Flint, Michigan, from 2015 to 2019. She was the first female mayor of the city and the 5th African-American to hold the office.

#1584

Cheryl Harris

#12511

Overall Influence

Cheryl I. Harris is a critical race theorist and professor of civil rights and civil liberties at the UCLA School of Law. Harris is widely known for "Whiteness as Property", published in the June 1993 edition of the Harvard Law Review. In the paper, Harris describes the white racial identity and the value it confers in a slave society.

#1585

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

#33331

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Toomas Hendrik Ilves is an Estonian politician who served as the fourth president of Estonia from 2006 until 2016. Ilves worked as a diplomat and journalist, and he was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in the 1990s. He served in the government as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2002. Later, he was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2006. He was elected as President of Estonia by an electoral college on 23 September 2006 and his term as President began on 9 October 2006. He was reelected by Parliament in 2011.

#1586

John P. Lewis

#69995

Overall Influence

1921 - 2010 (89 years)

John Prior Lewis was an American academic and presidential advisor who was a strong advocate of aid to help build developing countries as a matter of foreign policy. Lewis was born on March 18, 1921, in Albany, New York. He was raised in Hudson Falls, New York and earned his undergraduate degree from Union College. Lewis later attended Harvard University, from which he received a Master of Public Administration and was awarded a Ph.D. in political economy and government. During World War II he served in the United States Navy.

#1587

Stephen W. Bosworth

Stephen W. Bosworth

#38124

Overall Influence

1939 - 2016 (77 years)

Stephen Warren Bosworth was an American academic and diplomat. He served as Dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University and served as United States Special Representative for North Korea Policy from March 2009 to October 2011. He served three times as a U.S. Ambassador, to Tunisia , to the Philippines , and to South Korea . In 1987, he received the American Academy of Diplomacy's Diplomat of the Year Award.

#1588

Mark N. Katz

#48609

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Mark N. Katz is a professor of government and politics at George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government in Fairfax, Virginia, United States, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC. He researches and teaches classes about Russian politics and foreign policy, revolution, and the "War on Terror."

#1589

Abraham L. Newman

#46785

Overall Influence

Abraham L. Newman is an American political scientist and professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University and Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies. His research focuses on the ways in which economic interdependence and globalization have transformed international politics. His work has appeared in publications such as the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and The New York Times.

#1590

William A. Callahan

#72716

Overall Influence

William Arthur Callahan is a Canadian political scientist whose main research interests include China's global politics, visual international politics, documentary filmmaking, and international relations theory. Since 2013, he has been Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science . Callahan was Chair Professor of International Politics and China Studies at the University of Manchester , and co-director of the British Inter-University China Centre, University of Oxford. Callahan serves as on the editorial board of Journal of Contemporary China.

#1591

Gunther Teubner

Gunther Teubner

#28144

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Gunther Teubner is a German legal scholar and sociologist, best known for his works within the field of Social Theory of Law. His work "stands as one of the most highly evolved positions in the contemporary sociology of law and legal-political norms".

#1592

Alison Brysk

#40245

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Alison Brysk is an American political scientist who holds the Mellichamp Chair in Global Governance, Global and International Studies, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in international Human Rights.

#1593

Évelyne Pisier

#31134

Overall Influence

1941 - 2017 (76 years)

Évelyne Pisier was a French writer and political scientist. Biography Pisier was born in Hanoi on October 18, 1941. She was the daughter of a French senior civil servant, Georges Pisier , who was a Maurrassien supporter of the Vichy regime and was stationed in Hanoi. Pisier was interned for four years in a Japanese concentration camp after the Japanese invasion of French Indochina. She then moved to Nouméa, where her father was transferred and where her brother Gilles Pisier was born. Her parents subsequently separated, so Évelyne Pisier settled in Nice with her mother and her sister, future actress and director Marie-France Pisier.

#1594

Uri Rosenthal

#70840

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Uriël "Uri" Rosenthal is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and political scientist. Rosenthal a political scientist by occupation, was elected as a Member of the Senate on 8 June 1999 after the Senate election of 1999. On 5 May 2005 he was selected as the parliamentary leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy in the Senate. Following the election of 2010 Rosenthal was asked to become Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet Rutte–Verhagen Rosenthal accepted and resigned as parliamentary leader in the Senate and a Member of the Senate t...

#1595

Mathew D. McCubbins

#55362

Overall Influence

1956 - 2021 (65 years)

Mathew Daniel McCubbins was the Ruth F. De Varney Professor of Political Science and professor of law, in the Department of Political Science and School of Law at Duke University. Education McCubbins received a B.A. in political science from University of California, Irvine and an M.S. and Ph.D. in social science from the California Institute of Technology.

#1596

Michael Armacost

Michael Armacost

#72464

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Michael Hayden Armacost is a retired American diplomat and a fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute. He was acting United States Secretary of State during the early days of the administration of President George H. W. Bush, before Secretary James Baker was confirmed by the Senate. Armacost also served as United States Ambassador to Japan and the president of the Brookings Institution from 1995 to 2002.

#1597

James Woolsey

#42571

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Robert James Woolsey Jr. is an American political appointee who has served in various senior positions. He headed the Central Intelligence Agency as Director of Central Intelligence from February 5, 1993, until January 10, 1995. He held a variety of government positions in the 1970s and 1980s, including as United States Under Secretary of the Navy from 1977 to 1979, and was involved in treaty negotiations with the Soviet Union for five years in the 1980s. His career also included time as a professional lawyer, venture capitalist and investor in the private sector.

#1598

Rudy Andeweg

#59197

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Rudolf Bastiaan "Rudy" Andeweg is a former Professor of Empirical Political Science at Leiden University. He has written on political psychology, voting behavior, political elites, political leadership, comparative politics and political institutions.

#1599

Richard Stöss

#68608

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Richard Stöss is a German political scientist and extraordinary professor at the Free University of Berlin. The focus of his research is on right-wing extremism and on political parties. Life Richard Stöss was born during the final part of World War II at Sankt Goar, a small wine producing town on the left bank along the narrow section of the Rhine Gorge between Koblenz and Mainz. He passed his school final exams in 1965, just a few weeks short of his twenty-first birthday. Between 1969 and 1996 he worked at the Central Institute for Social Sciences Research at the Free University of B...

#1600

Rosemary Hollis

Rosemary Hollis

#42129

Overall Influence

1952 - 2020 (68 years)

Rosemary Hollis was a British political scientist. Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at City University London until her retirement in 2018, Hollis was known for her expertise and scholarship on the relations between the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States with the Middle East. She was formerly the Research Director at Chatham House .

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