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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#1701

James Vreeland

#82135

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

James Raymond Vreeland is Professor of Politics and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He conducts research in the field of international political economy, specializing in international institutions.

#1702

Cornelius O'Leary

#68993

Overall Influence

1927 - 2006 (79 years)

Cornelius O'Leary was an Irish historian and political scientist. O'Leary was born in Limerick but was raised in Cork, where he attended University College Cork, gaining a first-class honours degree in history and Latin in 1949. He subsequently studied for a DPhil at Nuffield College, Oxford as the first student to be supervised by the psephologist David Butler. While researching his PhD, he worked at a number of secondary schools in London.

#1703

Hubert Védrine

#44656

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Hubert Védrine is a French Socialist politician. He is an advisor at Moelis & Company. Early life and career Following a history degree and graduating from both Sciences Po and ENA, Védrine had toyed with the idea of entering journalism but, on the advice of the historian and family friend Jean Lacouture, instead took a post at the culture ministry.

#1704

Rawi Abdelal

#31245

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Rawi E. Abdelal is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. In 1993, Abdelal earned a B.S. in economics at Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1997, he earned a M.A., and in 1999 a Ph.D., in Government from Cornell University.

#1705

Mireia Vehí

#32566

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (39 years)

Mireia Vehí i Cantenys is a Spanish sociologist and politician from Catalonia, who currently serves as Member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain. She was previously a member of the Parliament of Catalonia.

#1706

Wang Jisi

#52243

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Wang Jisi is a Chinese academic and international relations scholar. He currently serves as the president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies at Peking University. He serves as the Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University from 2005 to 2013 and has held the position of Peking University Boya Chair Professor since 2017.

#1707

Thane Gustafson

Thane Gustafson

#38822

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Thane Gustafson is a professor of political science at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States. He specializes in comparative politics and the political history of Russia and the former USSR.

#1708

Samuel L. Kaplan

Samuel L. Kaplan

#40835

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Samuel Louis Kaplan is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Morocco. He was appointed ambassador in 2009 by President Barack Obama, replacing the previous ambassador Thomas T. Riley. He is one of only a few American Jews to represent the United States in a Muslim nation.

#1709

Bethany Albertson

#75028

Overall Influence

Bethany Lee Albertson is an American Political psychologist. She is an Associate professor of political science at the University of Texas at Austin. Her co-authored book Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World received the Robert E. Lane Award for being the best book in political psychology published in 2015.

#1710

Yuri Pines

#19201

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Yuri Pines is a Ukrainian-born Israeli sinologist and the Michael W. Lipson Professor of Chinese Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Pines was born in Kiev, Ukraine and immigrated to Israel as a child in 1979. He studied under Lothar von Falkenhausen at UCLA and under Liu Zehua at Nankai University in Tianjin, earning a PhD at Hebrew University in 1998.

#1711

Marcel Wissenburg

#36023

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Marcel Wissenburg is a Dutch political theorist who is a Professor of Political Theory at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. Career Wissenburg studied political science and philosophy at the Radboud University Nijmegen , where he then read for a PhD, graduating in 1994. He was a junior researcher at RU in the Faculty of Management Sciences from 1990 to 1994, then a postdoctoral research fellow at the same institution from 1995 to 1998. He became a Lecturer of Political Theory and the Philosophy of the Policy Sciences in 1997, and held this title until 2005. During this time, he taught...

#1712

Alice Kang

#71885

Overall Influence

Alice J. Kang is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Education Kang received her B.A. in Economics from Brown University in 2000 and her Ph.D in Political Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010.

#1713

Alasdair Cochrane

Alasdair Cochrane

#41480

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Alasdair Cochrane is a British political theorist and ethicist who is currently Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. He is known for his work on animal rights from the perspective of political theory, which is the subject of his two books: An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory and Animal Rights Without Liberation . His third book, Sentientist Politics, was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. He is a founding member of the Centre for Animals and Social Justice, a UK-based think tank focused on furthering the social and political status of nonhuman animals.

#1714

Dave Sinardet

#67180

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Dave Sinardet is a Belgian political scientist, author and columnist. Biography Since 2007, Dave Sinardet is a professor at Saint-Louis University, Brussels. In 2009, he also started giving lectures at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. At the University of Antwerp he is a post-doctoral research fellow of the FWO .

#1715

Shigeaki Uno

#57818

Overall Influence

1930 - 2017 (87 years)

was a political scientist; Professor Emeritus of Seikei University; Honorary President and Professor Emeritus of University of Shimane. Majored in International Relations . Shigeaki Uno was born in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture; His wife, Mieko Uno is Educator and Professor Emeritus of Ferris University. Shigeki Uno, Political Scientist and Professor of Research Institute for Social Science, University of Tokyo is a son of Mr. & Mrs. Uno.

#1716

Michael Schoenhals

#44912

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Michael Schoenhals is a Swedish sinologist, specializing in the society of modern China. He is Professor Emeritus of Chinese Studies at Lund University. The book Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals is considered the seminal work on the Cultural Revolution.

#1717

Ward Elliott

#27162

Overall Influence

1937 - 2022 (85 years)

Ward Elliott was an American political scientist who was the Burnet C. Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions at Claremont McKenna College in California. Elliott had been a professor at CMC since 1968.

#1718

Michael P. Howlett

#91437

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Michael P. Howlett is the Burnaby Mountain Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, and was Yong Pung How Chair Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He specializes in comparative policy studies with a focus on resource and environmental policy-making.

#1719

James D. Savage

#65956

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

James D. Savage is a political science professor at the University of Virginia who teaches public policy in the Department of Politics and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He is an expert in government budget and fiscal policies and budget theory. He completed his undergraduate degrees in political science and psychology at the University of California, Riverside, his graduate degrees in political science, public policy, and economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and his post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University. At Berkeley, Savage studied under Nelson Polsby and Aaron Wildavsky.

#1720

Joakim Palme

#44768

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Per Joakim Palme is a Swedish political scientist and sociologist. He is the eldest son of Olof Palme, who was Prime Minister of Sweden until his assassination in 1986, and his wife Lisbeth Palme. Career Since 2009, Palme is a professor of political science at Uppsala University. Since 2002 he has been CEO of the Institute for Future Studies. Between 2003 and 2009, he was adjunct professor of sociology at Stockholm University. In 2009 he was appointed Adjunct Professor at the Center for Velfærdsstatsforskning at the University of Southern Denmark.

#1721

Martin Lodge

#83042

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Martin Lodge is professor of political science and public policy at the London School of Economics . Lodge studies comparative regulatory regimes and policies, institutional analysis, and German, British and European Union public policy.

#1722

Louis Bazin

#32815

Overall Influence

1920 - 2011 (91 years)

Louis Bazin was a French orientalist. Biography Born in Caen, he entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1939. When he graduated in 1943, he became a senior research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, while continuing his studies at the National School for Modern Oriental Languages.

#1723

Erika Feller

#69978

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Erika Elizabeth Feller is an Australian academic, diplomat and lawyer. From 2006 to 2013, she was Assistant High Commissioner for Protection with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She is currently the Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

#1724

Antonia Handler Chayes

Antonia Handler Chayes

#36670

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Antonia "Toni" Handler Chayes is a United States lawyer and educator who served as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force from 1977 to 1979 and as United States Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1979 to 1981.

#1725

Keith Suter

#45630

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Keith Douglas Suter is an Australian consultant on strategic planning and a futurist. Suter has achieved three doctorates. The first of these was about the international law of guerrilla warfare , and the second about the social and economic consequences of the arms race and a third doctorate on scenario planning . He was awarded the Australian Government's Peace Medal in 1986: The International Year of Peace and was Rostrum's "Communicator of the Year" in 1995.

#1726

Hans Bielenstein

#39394

Overall Influence

1920 - 2015 (95 years)

Hans Henrik August Bielenstein was a Swedish sinologist and Dean Lung Professor Emeritus from Columbia University specialising in the history of the Han Dynasty. Life Hans Henrik August Bielenstein was born on 8 April 1920 in Stockholm, Sweden. He attended private school in Stockholm and took the matriculation exam in 1939. After the outbreak of the Winter War, 1939–40, he joined the Swedish Voluntary Corps as a commando and fought the Russians in Finnish Lapland. After his return, he entered the Guards Regiment.

#1727

Stephen Hopgood

#81373

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Stephen Hopgood is Professor of International Relations at the SOAS, University of London. He is also the co-director of the Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences. His most recent book is The Endtimes of Human Rights in which he argues that declining Western power will undermine the prospects for global human rights. His 2006 book, Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International, is the first ethnographic account of a global human rights NGO and received the Best Book in Human Rights award from the American Political Science Association.

#1728

Allan Friedman

#27186

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Allan Howard Friedman is the Guy L. Odom Professor of Neurological Surgery at Duke University Medical Center, specializing in tumor and vascular neurosurgery. He has been on the Duke faculty since 1981.

#1729

Rob Mokken

#62655

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Robert Jan Mokken is a Dutch political scientist and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Methodology at the University of Amsterdam. Biography Born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Mokken began his studies at the Royal Netherlands Naval College in Den Helder from 1949 to 1952. He proceeded to study at the University of Amsterdam, where in 1957 he obtained his BA in Political and Social sciences, in 1961 his MA, and in 1970 his PhD with the thesis entitled "A theory and procedure of scale analysis: with applications in political research" under the supervision of Jan Hemelrijk.

#1730

Michael P. McDonald

#57347

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Michael P. McDonald is an American political scientist. He is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida where he focuses on the United States elections. Early life and education McDonald earned his Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the California Institute of Technology and his PhD from the University of California, San Diego.

#1731

Khalil Jahshan

#45484

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Khalil Jahshan is a Palestinian-American political analyst and media commentator. He serves currently as Executive Director of Arab Center Washington DC, a nonprofit think tank focusing on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Between 2004-2013, Jahshan was a Lecturer in International Studies and Languages at Pepperdine University and Executive Director of its Seaver College Washington DC Internship Program. He received a bachelor's degree in political science and French from Harding University in 1972.

#1732

A. John Simmons

#17432

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Alan John Simmons is an American political philosopher. Simmons graduated from Princeton University and completed a master's degree and doctorate from Cornell University. He began teaching at the University of Virginia in 1976, where he was later named Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy, John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Law. Simmons has chaired Virginia's Philosophy Department and its Program in Political and Social Thought, and he received Virginia's All-University Teaching Award in that award's inaugural year. He taught Ethics as a special Consultant for six years at the F.B.I.

#1733

David Snellgrove

David Snellgrove

#9750

Overall Influence

1920 - 2016 (96 years)

David Llewellyn Snellgrove, FBA was a British Tibetologist noted for his pioneering work on Buddhism in Tibet as well as his many travelogues. Biography Snellgrove was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and educated at Christ's Hospital near Horsham in West Sussex. He went on to study German and French at Southampton University. In 1941 he was called up to do his military service as a member of the Royal Engineers. He attended the Officers Cadet Training Unit in the Scottish seaside town of Dunbar, and was commissioned as an infantry officer. Thereafter he attended various intelligence courses an...

#1734

Merit Janow

#36048

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Merit E. Janow is a professor in the practice of international trade and dean at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs from 2013 to 2021. Biography Janow teaches graduate courses in international economic and trade policy at SIPA and international trade law and international antitrust at Columbia University Law School. Janow has also served on the WTO Appellate Body since November 2003. Since 1997 she has also been an executive director of a new international competition policy advisory committee to the attorney general and assistant attorney general for antitrust at the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

#1735

Matthew Dowd

#28393

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Matthew John Dowd is an American political pundit and consultant. He was the chief strategist for the Bush–Cheney 2004 presidential campaign and was an ABC News political analyst. On September 29, 2021, he announced a run for lieutenant governor of Texas as a Democrat against the incumbent, Dan Patrick. On December 7, 2021, Dowd announced the end of his campaign.

#1736

Nicole Bacharan

Nicole Bacharan

#53270

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Nicole Bacharan is a French historian and political scientist specializing in American society and French-American relations. She is a researcher with the National Foundation for Political Science and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California from 2013 to 2014.

#1737

Suzanne Mettler

Suzanne Mettler

#57956

Overall Influence

Suzanne Mettler is an American political scientist and author, known for her research about the way Americans view and respond to the government in their lives, and helping to stimulate the study of American political development.

#1738

Paul D. Miller

#80799

Overall Influence

Paul D. Miller is an American academic, writer and former White House staffer for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He is a professor in the Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He is a former associate director of The William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin. He formerly worked as an adjunct political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He is a reserve Army officer and veteran of the War in Afghanistan. Miller's writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The America...

#1739

Vedat Demir

#68412

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Vedat Demir is a professor at the Free University of Berlin. He formerly served as the General Secretary of the Turkish Press Council and was a professor at his alma mater, Istanbul University, before he was targeted and imprisoned by the Turkish government.

#1740

Philip Klinkner

#58061

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Philip A. Klinkner is an American political scientist, blogger and author. He is noted for his work on American politics, especially political parties and elections, race and American politics, and American political history.

#1741

Wilson Carey McWilliams

#39658

Overall Influence

1933 - 2005 (72 years)

Wilson Carey McWilliams , son of Carey McWilliams, was a political scientist at Rutgers University. Biography McWilliams served in the 11th Airborne Division of the United States Army from 1955 to 1961, after which he took his master's degree and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California, Berkeley. There he studied under Sheldon Wolin, John Schaar and Norman Jacobson, and also recognized the influences of political theorists Leo Strauss and Bertrand de Jouvenel. He wrote a Masters thesis on the political realism of Hans Morgenthau and Reinhold Niebuhr. He was also active in the early sta...

#1742

Dejan Jović

#55772

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Dejan Jović is a political scientist from Croatia. He is a full-time professor at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb. From 2012 to 2020, Jović was editor-in-chief of the Croatian Political Science Review, one of the leading academic journals of political science and social science in Southeast Europe. He is also one of the founders and editor-in-chief of the peer reviewed journal Tragovi: Journal for Serbian and Croatian Topics published by the Serb National Council and the Archive of Serbs in Croatia.

#1743

Ken Young

#60903

Overall Influence

1943 - 2019 (76 years)

Kenneth George Young FAcSS FRHistS was a British political scientist and historian who was Professor of Public Policy at King's College London in its Department of War Studies. Earlier he was instrumental in the creation of the Department of Political Economy at KCL in 2010, and was its founding head of department.

#1744

Kevin Hewison

#51025

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Kevin Hewison is an Australian social and political scientist, formerly the Weldon E. Thornton Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of the Carolina Asia Center. He is now Weldon E. Thornton Distinguished Emeritus Professor at UNC.

#1745

Padraic Kenney

#58870

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Padraic Jeremiah Kenney is an American writer, historian, and educator. He is a professor of history and International Studies at Indiana University. He currently serves as an Associate Dean for Social and Historical Sciences and Graduate Education in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University. He served a two-year tenure as director of Collins Living-Learning Center from 2018-2020. Previously, he was Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He graduated from Harvard College , University of Toronto , and the University of Michigan .

#1746

Paul Wellstone

#36712

Overall Influence

1944 - 2002 (58 years)

Paul David Wellstone was an American academic, author, and politician who represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until he was killed in a plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota, in 2002. A member of the Democratic Party , Wellstone was a leader of the populist and progressive wings of the party.

#1747

Bettina Aptheker

#18931

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Bettina Fay Aptheker is an American political activist, radical feminist, professor and author. Aptheker was active in civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and has since worked in developing feminist studies.

#1748

Christian List

#51011

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Christian List is a German philosopher and political scientist who serves as professor of philosophy and decision theory at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and co-director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. He was previously professor of political science and philosophy at the London School of Economics. List's research interests relate to social choice theory, formal epistemology, political philosophy, and the philosophy of social science.

#1749

Wu Teh Yao

#28678

Overall Influence

1915 - 1994 (79 years)

Wu Teh Yao was a Chinese political scientist. He was an educator and a specialist in Confucianism and political science. Education Wu completed his senior school certificate at the Anglo-Chinese School in Penang at the age of seventeen. He was admitted to the Chung Ling High School, a well-known bilingual school teaching in both Chinese and English, despite not knowing any Chinese, after an interview with the principal David Chen. After his graduation from Chung Ling in 1936, he was admitted to Nanking University for a course of Bachelor of Arts under Chen's recommendation. He later obtained...

#1750

Chen Chien-jen

#54032

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Chen Chien-jen is a Taiwanese diplomat. Political career Chen served in the Legislative Yuan for one term from 1993 to 1996. He was then named the minister of the Government Information Office in 1998. The next year, he was appointed to lead the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Chen planned to retire after stepping down at the end of President Lee Teng-hui's final term in 2000. However, Lee's successor Chen Shui-bian asked Chen Chien-jen to reconsider. Chen eventually chose to accept the post of representative to the United States. He postponed retirement again in 2004 to become the representative to the European Union and Belgium.

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