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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#1651

Norman Schofield

#58072

Overall Influence

1944 - 2019 (75 years)

Norman James Schofield was a Scottish-American political scientist, the Dr. William Taussig Professor of Political Economy at the Washington University in St. Louis. Early life and education Schofield earned two bachelor's degrees from the University of Liverpool; one in physics in 1965 and the other in mathematics in 1966. Later he obtained two PhDs from Essex University: the first in government in 1976 and the second in economics in 1985.

#1652

Lavinia Stan

#47153

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Lavinia Stan is a professor of political science at St. Francis Xavier University in Canada. She currently lives in Montreal. Education and career After obtaining a degree from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, she emigrated to Canada in 1991. She then earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto. Between 2001 and 2003 she taught at Dalhousie University in Halifax, while from 2006 to 2008 she taught at Concordia University in Montreal. Since 2004, Stan has been a Professor of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia.

#1653

Matthew Bunn

#48724

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Matthew Bunn is an American nuclear and energy policy analyst, currently a professor of practice at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. He is the Co-principal Investigator for the Belfer Center's Project on Managing the Atom.

#1654

Lisa Baldez

#74431

Overall Influence

Lisa Baldez is an American political scientist and scholar of Latin American Studies. She is a professor of government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies at Dartmouth College, where she was also Cheheyl Professor and director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning at Dartmouth College from 2015 until 2018. She studies the relationship between political institutions and gender equality, and has written about the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, women's protests in Chile, gender quota laws, and the Equal Rig...

#1655

Ray Price

#18527

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Raymond Kissam Price Jr. was an American writer who was the chief speechwriter for U.S. President Richard Nixon, working on both inaugural addresses, his resignation speech, and Gerald Ford's pardon speech. During Nixon's presidential campaign of 1968, the candidate made use of the contrasting style of two speechwriters with Price becoming known to colleagues as Mr Outside because his work was aimed at broadening Nixon's appeal.

#1656

Michele Betsill

#72544

Overall Influence

Michele Betsill is an American political scientist. She is a professor of political science at Colorado State University, where she has also been the chair of the department. She studies climate change and sustainability policies, with a particular focus on how non-governmental actors and sub-national governments respond to climate change. She is a co-founder of the Earth System Governance Project.

#1657

Paul M. Lisnek

#37366

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Paul M. Lisnek was born on June 19, 1958, and is an attorney, legal consultant, political analyst, public speaker, television and radio talk show host, and interviewer, and author. He has consulted on and analyzed numerous nationally recognized legal cases. He currently resides in Chicago.

#1658

Mamoudou Gazibo

Mamoudou Gazibo

#80202

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Mamoudou Gazibo OON is a Nigerien political scientist. He is a professor of political science at the Université de Montréal. He studies comparative political institutions and democratisation across African countries.

#1659

Beatrice Heuser

#24599

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Beatrice Heuser , is an historian and political scientist. She holds the chair of International Relations at the University of Glasgow. Life Heuser has a B.A. in History from Bedford College, a M.A. in International History from the London School of Economics and a D.Phil. in Political Science from the University of Oxford. In addition, she holds a Higher Doctorate from the University of Marburg. From 1989 to 1991, she worked at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. Subsequently, she became a lecturer and later a professor of Strategic Studies at King's College London. She ha...

#1660

David Keightley

#32866

Overall Influence

1932 - 2017 (85 years)

David Noel Keightley was an American sinologist. He was a professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a published author covering the Shang and Zhou dynasties and the Chinese Bronze Age. He was best known for his studies of Chinese oracle bones and oracle bone script. His work changed the way that many Sinologists viewed Shang dynasty history.

#1661

Adam Watson

#33874

Overall Influence

1914 - 2007 (93 years)

John Hugh "Adam" Watson was a British International relations theorist and researcher. Alongside Hedley Bull, Martin Wight, Herbert Butterfield, and others, he was one of the founding members of the English school of international relations theory.

#1662

Nancy-Ann DeParle

#24982

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Nancy-Ann Min DeParle served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the administration of President Obama from January 2011 to January 2013. Previously, she served as the director of the White House Office of Health Reform, leading the administration's efforts on health care issues, including the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. She served as the director of the Health Care Financing Administration from 1997 to 2000, administering the Medicare program for the Clinton administration, and before then worked at the Office of Management and Budget.

#1663

Nafeez Ahmed

#40777

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is a British investigative journalist, author and academic. He is editor of the crowdfunded investigative journalism platform INSURGE intelligence. He is a former environment blogger for The Guardian from March 2013 to July 2014. From 2014 to 2017, Ahmed was a weekly columnist for Middle East Eye, the London-based news portal founded by ex-Guardian writer David Hearst. He is 'System Shift' columnist at VICE covering issues around global systems crises and solutions. Ahmed is now Special Investigations Reporter at Byline Times.

#1664

Rodney Tiffen

#77874

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Rodney Tiffen is an Australian emeritus professor of political science in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. Tiffen was educated at Monash University, and is considered a specialist in Australian mass media. Tiffen has authored 39 books, Tiffen also co-authored a popular reference book, How Australia Compares, with Ross Gittins, a journalist from the Sydney Morning Herald.

#1665

Michael Thrasher

#32097

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Michael Thrasher is a British academic, Professor of Politics in the School of Sociology, Politics & Law at the University of Plymouth. He is also Sky News' election analyst. Thrasher was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in 1953. he received his BA in politics from the University of Liverpool in 1974. He remained in Liverpool to study for his doctoral thesis, "The political theory of English local government, 1834-1972". He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1981. He began lecturing at Plymouth in 1977, becoming Professor of Politics in 1997. He is co-director of the Local Government Chronicle Elec...

#1666

António Costa Pinto

António Costa Pinto

#49507

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

António Costa Pinto is a research professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, and Professor of Politics and Contemporary European History at ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, Portugal.

#1667

Torkel Opsahl

#79957

Overall Influence

1931 - 1993 (62 years)

Torkel Opsahl was a Norwegian human rights scholar, professor of the University of Oslo since 1965 and head of the board of its Human Rights Institute since 1987. From 1970 to 1984, he was a member of the European Commission of Human Rights. Between 1977 and 1986, he was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee. In 1992-1993 he chaired an independent commission exploring ways forward for Northern Ireland, out of which came the influential book 'A Citizens' Inquiry: the Opsahl Report on Northern Ireland'. Opsahl died from a heart attack at his office in Geneva on 16 September 1993. At the tim...

#1668

Stephen Shalom

#42895

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Stephen Rosskamm Shalom is a professor of political science at William Paterson University where he has taught since 1977. He is a writer on social and political issues and is a contributor to Znet and Democratic Left. He is on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars and the journal New Politics.

#1669

Martha Crenshaw

Martha Crenshaw

#42986

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Martha Crenshaw FBA is a political scientist who is prominent for her research on terrorism. She is professor of political science at Stanford University since 2007, as well as senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Center for International Security and Cooperation .

#1670

Virginia Sapiro

#36213

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Virginia Sapiro is an American political scientist and political psychologist. A native of East Orange, New Jersey, Sapiro graduated from Clark University in 1972, and obtained her doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1976, after which she began teaching at University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was appointed Sophonisba P. Breckinridge Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies there in 1995, and served through 2007, when she joined the Boston University faculty. Sapiro has served the American Political Science Association as secretary, vice president, and president of the APSA ...

#1671

Jeremy A. Rabkin

#35364

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Jeremy A. Rabkin is a professor of law at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where he teaches constitutional law and international law. Prior to joining the George Mason faculty in 2007, he spent 27 years as a professor of government at Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University and graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Cornell.

#1672

Asle Toje

#53166

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Asle Toje is the Deputy Leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee . He is a foreign policy scholar and was Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute from 2009 until he joined the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. Toje is a regular contributor to the Norwegian foreign policy debate, including as a regular columnist in the Dagens Næringsliv, Minerva. In the Norwegian foreign policy discourse he has been a proponent of democracy, market economy, the rule of law, and conservatism. Toje has in recent years spent most of his time on issues at the intersection of nuclear disarmament, peace and geo...

#1673

Erwin Wickert

#37648

Overall Influence

1915 - 2008 (93 years)

Erwin Wickert was a German diplomat who, during the 1970s, served as the ambassador to Romania and China. Early life and education Born in Bralitz and raised in Wittenberg, Wickert applied to join the Sturmabteilung at the age of 18 before ultimately enrolling at the University of Berlin in 1934, where he studied philosophy. The following year, in 1935, he won a scholarship to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and transferred there to complete his studies, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in economics and political science in 1936.

#1674

Peter Frumkin

#50655

Overall Influence

Peter Frumkin is a professor and published author whose research and teaching are focused in the areas of philanthropy, nonprofit management, and social entrepreneurship. Professional life Frumkin currently is the Mindy and Andrew Heyer Chair in Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. There he directs the Masters in Nonprofit Leadership Program and serves as faculty director of the Center for Social Impact Strategy.

#1675

Richard Dekmejian

#46708

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Richard Hrair Dekmejian is an Armenian-American Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles . He also served as the Director of the USC Institute of Armenian Studies from 2005-2012. His teachings are primarily focused on world leadership and comparative and international politics. Professor Dekmejian splits his research efforts between National Security issues, International Mediation, Middle East/Islamic Studies, Political Elites, Comparative Genocides, and Terrorism.

#1676

Aletta Norval

#41755

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Aletta Norval is a South African born political theorist. she is Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Anglia Ruskin University. A prominent member of the Essex School of discourse analysis, she is mainly known for her deconstructionist analysis of Apartheid discourse, for her methodological contributions to discourse analysis and for her work on decentred, democratic and poststructuralist political theory. Her other research interests include feminist theory, South-African politics, ethnicity and the politics of race. More recently, she has worked on biometrics, focussing on issues of citizen consent t...

#1677

Moon Chung-in

#70235

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Moon Chung-in is a Special Advisor to President Moon Jae-in of South Korea for Foreign Affairs and National Security. He is also a Distinguished University Professor of Yonsei University, Krause Distinguished Fellow, School of Policy and Global Strategy, University of California, San Diego, and co-Convener of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament . He is currently serving as the editor-in-chief of Global Asia. On 21 May 2017, Moon Chung-in was nominated by President Moon Jae-in as a special advisor on unification, diplomacy and national security aff...

#1678

Susan Ariel Aaronson

#30075

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Susan Ariel Aaronson is an American author, public speaker and an academic professor whose works are centred on the relationship between economic change and human rights and more recently focuses on data. She is a research professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, where she also founded the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub of which she is director.

#1679

Rubens Ricupero

#13871

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Rubens Ricupero is a Brazilian academic, economist, bureaucrat and diplomat. He served as the fifth Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development from September 1995 to September 2004.

#1680

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook

#61130

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook is a German-American political scientist. She was the director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations from June 2021 to February 2022. Since August 2022 she has served as an Executive Vice President of the Bertelsmann Stiftung.

#1681

Leon Gouré

#36768

Overall Influence

1922 - 2007 (85 years)

Leon Gouré was a Soviet Union-born American political scientist and analyst. His studies for the RAND Corporation in the 1960s and 1970s helped influence civil defense preparedness in the United States and U.S. strategy in the Vietnam War.

#1682

Leonard A. Cole

Leonard A. Cole

#40640

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Leonard Aaron Cole , was an American dentist, political scientist and expert on bioterrorism and terror medicine. He was adjunct professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark, New Jersey and of emergency medicine at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. A pioneer in developing the field of terror medicine, he was founding director of the Program on Terror Medicine and Security at the medical school.

#1683

Denis Twitchett

#21065

Overall Influence

1925 - 2006 (81 years)

Denis Crispin Twitchett was a British Sinologist and historian, and is well known as one of the co-editors of The Cambridge History of China. Biography Denis Twitchett was born on 23 September 1925 in London, England, the son of an architectural draughtsman, and attended Isleworth County Grammar School. During World War II he took a crash course in Japanese, and for the remainder of the war he was part of the Bletchley Park operations acting as a listener at one of the forward listening stations in Sri Lanka. He also spent a great deal of time in Japan, and was able to learn from the best Japanese historians of China .

#1684

Kenneth Scheve

#63867

Overall Influence

Kenneth Frederick Scheve Jr. is an American political economist. Scheve earned a degree in economics at the University of Notre Dame in 1990, then worked in the finance sector. He completed a doctorate in political science at Harvard University in 2000, where his doctoral thesis, Casting Votes in the Global Economy: Public Opinion and Voting Behavior in Open Economies, was advised by James E. Alt, Torben Iversen, and Gary King. Scheve accepted an assistant professorship in political science at Yale University from 2001 to 2004, when he was named associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan.

#1685

Jeff Kuhner

#29994

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Jeffrey Thomas Kuhner is an American talk radio host and political commentator, heard on weekdays from 6 am to 10 am on WRKO AM 680 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the editor of Insight on the News and a regular contributor to the commentary pages of The Washington Times, and his articles have appeared in Human Events, National Review Online and Investor's Business Daily.

#1686

David P. Calleo

#49545

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

David Patrick Calleo was an American political scientist, based at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he held the titles of Dean Acheson Professor and University Professor. He served as director of the SAIS European Studies program for more than 40 years, from 1968 through May 2012. Calleo was a noted American theorist on Europe and its future.

#1687

Benedict Richard O'gorman Anderson

#92064

Overall Influence

#1688

Sohail Inayatullah

Sohail Inayatullah

#26033

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Sohail Inayatullah is a Pakistani-born Australian academic, futures studies researcher and a professor at the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies at Tamkang University in Taipei, Taiwan. Biography Born in 1958 in Lahore, Pakistan, to a father who worked as a researcher for the United Nations and a Sufi mother, he grew up in numerous countries including the United States, Switzerland and Malaysia. His main influences include James Dator, Johan Galtung, William Irwin Thompson and in particular P. R. Sarkar.

#1689

Ben Cardin

#37055

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Benjamin Louis Cardin is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Maryland, a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for from 1987 to 2007. Cardin served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1967 to 1987 and as its speaker from 1979 to 1987, the youngest person to ever hold the position. In his half-century career as an elected official, he had never lost an election.

#1690

Nazli Moawad

#92209

Overall Influence

Nazli Moawad is an Egyptian political science professor at Faculty of Political Science at Cairo University. She was granted the National Legion of Honour , the highest French honor, by France’s President.

#1691

Sergio Fabbrini

#53045

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

#1692

André du Pisani

André du Pisani

#38434

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

André du Pisani is a Namibian political scientist, author of several books, articles and journals, he has written several conference papers for SADC, the Namibian government and several ministries, he is a professor at the University of Namibia Department of Political Science. Du Pisani has been a professor at the university since 1998.

#1693

Herschelle Sullivan Challenor

#81976

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Herchelle Sullivan Challenor is a foreign policy expert, international civil servant, university administrator, and was one of the key activists in the Atlanta Student Movement, part of the Civil Rights Movement, of the early 1960s.

#1694

Jeanne Theoharis

Jeanne Theoharis

#41358

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Jeanne Theoharis is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College. Early life Jeanne Theoharis was born to mother and activist Nancy Artinian, and father and professor Athan Theoharis. She was raised in Fox Point, Wisconsin a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin near the campus of Marquette University where her father taught. She has two siblings Liz Theoharis co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, and George Theoharis a professor of education, at Syracuse University.

#1695

Aileen Baviera

#82821

Overall Influence

1959 - 2020 (61 years)

Aileen San Pablo-Baviera was a Filipino political scientist and sinologist. She was one of the leading China experts in her country. Career In October 1979, Baviera received her Bachelor of Science degree in Foreign Service, cum laude at the University of the Philippines. As a student of modern Chinese history at the University of Beijing, she was allowed to do research in China for the first time from 1981 to 1983. She learned the Chinese language, received a diploma from the Beijing Language Institute and traveled to the north and west of the country. In 1987, Baviera received a Master of Arts in Asian studies, specializing in China and East Asia.

#1696

T. V. Paul

#45563

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Thazha Varkey Paul is an Indo-Canadian political scientist. He is a James McGill professor of International Relations in the department of Political Science at McGill University. Paul specializes in International Relations, especially international security, regional security and South Asia. He served as the president of the International Studies Association during 2016–2017, and served as the founding director of the McGill University – Université de Montreal Centre for International Peace and Security Studies .

#1697

William J. Burns

#52756

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

William Joseph Burns is an American diplomat who has served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Biden administration since March 19, 2021. He previously served as U.S. deputy secretary of state from 2011 to 2014; in 2009 he served as acting secretary of state for a day prior to the Senate confirmation of Hillary Clinton. Burns retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2014 after a 32-year diplomatic career. From 2014 to 2021, he served as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

#1698

Jason Healey

#43203

Overall Influence

Jason Healey is a senior research scholar and adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. He is also a senior fellow with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council, where he was the program's founding director. He has published many academic articles, essays, and books on the topic of cyber security and has advised on security measures for corporate, government, and military institutions. He has been identified as the first historian of cyber conflict.

#1699

Andrei Markovits

Andrei Markovits

#33646

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Andrei S. Markovits is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author and editor of many books, scholarly articles, conference papers, book reviews and newspaper contributions in English and many foreign languages on topics as varied as German and Austrian politics, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, social democracy, social movements, the European right and the European left. Markovits has also worked extensively on comparative sports culture in Europe and North America. In Au...

#1700

Francis Gavin

#70909

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Francis J. Gavin is an American historian currently serving as the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is also the chairman of the Board of Editors for the Texas National Security Review.

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