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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#1751

Peer Steinbrück

#41051

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Peer Steinbrück is a German politician who was the Chancellor-candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the 2013 federal election. Steinbrück served as the eighth Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2002 to 2005, a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2016, and as Federal Minister of Finance in the first Cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2009.

#1752

Joanna Marszałek-Kawa

#76986

Overall Influence

Joanna Marszałek-Kawa is a Polish lawyer, political scientist, professor and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Biography Joanna Marszałek-Kawa is the Head of the Department of the Political System of the Republic of Poland at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. She is also the Director of the Centre of Eastern Studies and the Vice President of Toruń branch of the Polish Association of Political Science. Marszałek-Kawa is the editor-in-chief of the journals: Polish Politica...

#1753

Shireen Hunter

#44947

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Shireen Tahmaaseb Hunter is an independent scholar. Until 2019, she was a Research Professor at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., with which she had been associated since 2005, as Visiting Fellow and then Visiting Professor. She became an honorary fellow of ACMCU in September 2019.

#1754

François Godement

#54130

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

François Godement is a French historian, specialist of China and international relations in East Asia. He is now a Professor in political science at Sciences Po and the Director for the strategy of Asia Centre, Paris.

#1755

B. Anthony Bogues

#62403

Overall Influence

B. Anthony Bogues is a Caribbean political theorist, intellectual historian, writer and curator and currently Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice at Brown University and the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory. He was an Honorary Research Professor at the University of Cape Town and is currently a visiting professor and curator at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Center, University of Johannesburg. He is also a Visiting professor of African and African Diaspora Thought at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

#1756

Nina Belyaeva

#78394

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Nina Yurievna Belyaeva is a Russian public policy researcher, PhD, professor and head of the Public Policy Department. at National Research University Higher School of Economics , Moscow 2000 - 2022, Russia, Academic Supervisor of the International Master's Program "Political Analysis and Public Policy" with a specialization in "Human Rights and Democratic Governance" , Russia. Member of Russian Political Science Association,.

#1757

Nathan Sivin

#13253

Overall Influence

1931 - 2022 (91 years)

Nathan Sivin , also known as Xiwen , was an American sinologist, historian, essayist, educator, and writer. He taught first at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then at the University of Pennsylvania until his retirement in 2006.

#1758

Vicky Randall

#73489

Overall Influence

1945 - 2019 (74 years)

Vicky Randall was a professor of political science and feminist scholar. Early life and education Randall was born in Birmingham on 3 April 1945, to the novelist Inez Pearn and the poet and sociologist Charles Madge, co-founder of Mass Observation and later Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham.

#1759

Faye Wattleton

#17505

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Faye Wattleton is an American reproductive rights activist who was the first African American and the youngest president ever elected of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the first woman since Margaret Sanger to hold the position. She is currently Co-founder & Director at EeroQ, a quantum computing company. She is best known for her contributions to family planning and reproductive health, and the reproductive rights movement.

#1760

Robert V. Bartlett

#64350

Overall Influence

Robert V. Bartlett is an American political scientist, currently the Gund Professor of the Liberal Arts at University of Vermont, previously the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the Polytechnic University of Turin, the Frank Church Distinguished Professor at Boise State University, Senior Fulbright Scholar at Trinity College Dublin, and a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Centre For Resource Management at Lincoln University and University of Canterbury, He was educated at Indiana University Bloomington.

#1761

Norman Geras

#11595

Overall Influence

1943 - 2013 (70 years)

Norman Geras was a political theorist and Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Manchester. He contributed to an analysis of the works of Karl Marx in his book Marx and Human Nature and the article "The Controversy About Marx and Justice". His "Seven Types of Obloquy: Travesties of Marxism", appeared in the Socialist Register in 1990.

#1762

Earl Black

#65085

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Earl Black is a retired professor of Political Science at Rice University who specialized in studies of the politics of the Southern United States. Earl Black earned a B.A. at the University of Texas at Austin in 1964 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968. He has studied the relationship between politics and race or ethnicity in the South.

#1763

Sheila Jeffreys

#35838

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Sheila Jeffreys is a former professor of political science at the University of Melbourne, born in England. A lesbian feminist scholar, she analyses the history and politics of human sexuality. Jeffreys' argument that the "sexual revolution" on men's terms contributed less to women's freedom than to their continued oppression has both commanded respect and attracted intense criticism. She argues that women suffering pain in pursuit of beauty is a form of submission to patriarchal sadism; that transgender people reproduce oppressive gender roles and mutilate their bodies through sex reassignme...

#1764

Martin Wattenberg

#61086

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Martin P. Wattenberg is a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine. He is an expert on American elections and party politics and is co-author of a popular undergraduate college text on American government, Government in America: People, Policy, and Politics, published by Pearson Longman. He is also the author of Where Have All the Voters Gone: The Decline of American Political Parties, Is Voting For Young People?, The Rise of Candidate-Centered Politics, and "Obama: Year One".

#1765

Tom Bradley

#27105

Overall Influence

1917 - 1998 (81 years)

Thomas Bradley was an American politician and police officer who served as the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles from 1973 to 1993. He was the first Black mayor of Los Angeles, and his 20 years in office mark the longest tenure by any mayor in the city's history. His election as mayor in 1973 made him the second Black mayor of a major U.S. city. Bradley retired in 1993, after his approval ratings began dropping subsequent to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. A panel of 69 scholars in 1993 ranked him among the ten best mayors in American history.

#1766

Robert Paarlberg

#57869

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Robert L. Paarlberg is a professor at Wellesley College and Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.

#1767

Gilles Carbonnier

#50563

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Gilles Carbonnier is the vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross and professor of development economics at Geneva’s Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies .

#1768

Sam Brown

#34750

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Sam W. Brown Jr. is a former political activist, the head of ACTION under President Jimmy Carter, and ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Early life and education Sam W. Brown Jr. was born July 27, 1943, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs where he was, in his own words, "the outstanding ROTC cadet." In his childhood, he wrote, "it never occurred to me that America could be wrong." Brown attended the University of Redlands in California, where he was first the president of the young Republicans and then the student body president.

#1769

Adam Curle

#36148

Overall Influence

1916 - 2006 (90 years)

Charles Thomas William Curle , better known as Adam Curle, was a British academic, known for his work in social psychology, pedagogy, development studies and peace studies. After holding posts at the University of Oxford, University of Exeter, University of Ghana and Harvard University, in 1973 he became the inaugural Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, following the establishment of the University's Department of Peace Studies. Curle's works included several books on education, including Educational Strategy for Developing Societies , and a number of books on peace and peacemaking, including Making Peace .

#1770

Melissa Hathaway

#24066

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Melissa Hathaway is a leading expert in cyberspace policy and cybersecurity. She served under two U.S. presidential administrations from 2007 to 2009, including more than 8 months at the White House, spearheading the Cyberspace Policy Review for President Barack Obama after leading the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative for President George W. Bush. She is President of Hathaway Global Strategies LLC, a Senior Fellow and member of the Board of Regents at Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Canada, and a non-resident Research Fellow at the Kosciuszko Institute in Poland.

#1771

Angie Brooks

#33740

Overall Influence

1928 - 2007 (79 years)

Angie Elizabeth Brooks was a Liberian diplomat and jurist. She was the only African female President of the United Nations General Assembly. She was also the second woman from any nation to head the U.N. body.

#1772

Hu Fo

#55515

Overall Influence

1932 - 2018 (86 years)

Hu Fo or Hu Fu was a Chinese political scientist, legal scholar, and political activist based in Taiwan. He was a prominent advocate for political freedom and democracy during the martial law era, but was also adamantly opposed to the Taiwan independence movement.

#1773

James E. Campbell

#53341

Overall Influence

James E. Campbell is an American political scientist, currently UB Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Professor Campbell retired at the conclusion of the Spring 2022 semester.

#1774

Roy Hattersley

#44354

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley, is a British politician, author and journalist from Sheffield. A member of the Labour Party, he was MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook for over 32 years from 1964 to 1997, and served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992.

#1775

Dennis Hale

#50708

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Dennis Hale is an American political scientist who works as a professor of political science at Boston College. Education Hale has a B.A. from Oberlin College , an M.A. from Brooklyn College , and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center .

#1776

Thomas Homer-Dixon

Thomas Homer-Dixon

#16248

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Thomas Homer-Dixon is a Canadian political scientist and author who researches threats to global security. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of seven books, the most recent being Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril.

#1777

Laurie Brand

#76628

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Laurie Ann Brand is a professor of international relations at the University of Southern California School of International Relations. Professor Brand specializes in the international relations of the Middle East, including political economy of the region and inter-Arab relations. She received her B.S. in French from Georgetown University, her M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from the same institution. She served as president of Middle East Studies Association of North America in 2004.

#1778

Scott Silliman

#34648

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Scott Livingston Silliman is a Professor Emeritus of the Practice of Law at Duke Law School, and Emeritus Executive Director of Duke Law School's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. He was also an adjunct professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , and at North Carolina Central University.

#1779

Lotika Sarkar

#26607

Overall Influence

1923 - 2013 (90 years)

Lotika Sarkar was a noted Indian feminist, social worker, educator and lawyer, who was a pioneer in the field of women's studies and women's rights in India. She was a founding member of Centre for Women's Development Studies , Delhi, established in 1980, and also Indian Association for Women Studies, established in 1982. Starting in 1951, she taught law at Faculty of Law, University of Delhi till 1983, and also remained the head of the law faculty; thereafter she taught at Indian Law Institute. She was the first Indian woman to graduate from Cambridge University, and later in 1951 she also b...

#1780

Ian Holliday

#75611

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Ian Holliday is a scholar with expertise in British and Asian Government, particularly Myanmar. He is currently the vice-president and pro-vice-chancellor of The University of Hong Kong . He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in social and political science at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1982, before completing his doctor of philosophy degree in politics at New College, Oxford, in 1989. He taught at University of Kent, University of Manchester , New York University, and City University of Hong Kong before teaching at the University of Hong Kong , he once served as Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong.

#1781

Antun Maqdisi

#54112

Overall Influence

1914 - 2005 (91 years)

Antun Maqdisi, also written as Antoun/Anton Maqdesi/Muqaddasi/Moqaddasi was a Syrian philosopher, politician and human rights activist. He began his study in Damascus and obtained his degree in Philosophy and French literature at the University of Montpellier in France. When he returned in Syria in 1940, he began his career as a teacher in philosophy, initially in Homs and later in Hama, Damascus and Aleppo. In Beirut he obtained an academic degree in Law.

#1782

Colin Rallings

#27594

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Colin Rallings is a British academic, Professor of Politics in the School of Sociology, Politics & Law at the University of Plymouth. Rallings’ first degree was in Politics and Modern History from the University of Manchester. Subsequently, he was awarded a master's degree in Politics by the University of Strathclyde and, in 1979, a Ph.D. by the University of Essex for a thesis on electoral behaviour. He joined the then Plymouth Polytechnic in 1976, being appointed Professor of Politics in 1997. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Leiden, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Queensland, and the Australian National University, Canberra.

#1783

Owen Harries

#73221

Overall Influence

1930 - 2020 (90 years)

Owen Harries was a leading Australian foreign-policy intellectual and founding editor of The National Interest magazine in Washington, DC. Early life and education Harries was born in Wales in 1930 and educated at Oxford University, where his tutor was political theorist John Plamenatz and his lecturers included philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin.

#1784

Paul Scheffer

#30077

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Paul Scheffer is a Dutch author, he was professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam between 2003 and 2011, currently he is professor of European studies at Tilburg University. Paul Scheffer is also a prominent member of the Dutch Labour Party.

#1785

Donald E. Abelson

#64071

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Donald E. Abelson is a professor of political science at The University of Western Ontario, where he has served as director of the Center for American Studies, as chair of the political science department, and as the founding director of the Canada-US Institute. Abelson has published a number of books and articles dealing with the influence of think tanks on public policy and foreign policy in the United States and Canada. He has been called a "foremost authority on think tanks" in Canada and the United States, and is a regular commentator on his research areas with the CBC and other mass medi...

#1786

Derek Hopwood

#46879

Overall Influence

1933 - 2020 (87 years)

Derek Hopwood OBE was an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and University Reader in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. Hopwood was the founding president Middle East Libraries Committee, a post which he kept until 1990. He was holder of the RISMES Award for Services to Middle Eastern Studies in Britain. He held visiting professorships at several international Universities, such as University of Provence, University of Khartoum, Ain Shams University, and Pennsylvania. He was also for several years director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College.

#1787

Carol Z. Perez

#27965

Overall Influence

Carol Zelis Perez is a career Foreign Service Officer, who previously served as the Director General of the Foreign Service. Perez served as the U.S. Ambassador to Chile from October 2016 to January 2019.

#1788

Wolfgang Dietrich

Wolfgang Dietrich

#43018

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Wolfgang Dietrich is an Austrian peace researcher and political scientist. Dietrich was educated in Austria and England and received a Ph.D. in history and literature at the University of Innsbruck/Austria in 1980 and an LL.D. at the same university in 1984. In 1990 he was promoted to the degree of "Universitätsdozent" in Political Science according to the Austrian Law of Higher Education . In 2015, the University of Innsbruck promoted him to an Honorary Professor.

#1789

Frank Baumgartner

#85867

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Frank Baumgartner is an American political scientist, currently the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and formerly the Distinguished Professor and Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne Professor at Penn State University. He received all of his academic degrees at the University of Michigan .

#1790

John K. Menzies

John K. Menzies

#47050

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

John K. Menzies was dean of the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. Menzies served as President of the American University of Kurdistan. Located in the Duhok Governorate of Iraqi Kurdistan, the university is fast becoming the region's preeminent institution of higher education.

#1791

James Reist Stoner Jr.

#56849

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

James R. Stoner Jr. is Hermann Moyse Jr. Professor and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute in the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University. Stoner specializes in political theory, English common law, and American constitutionalism.

#1792

Mark J. Rozell

#62438

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Mark J. Rozell is a political scientist. He is the dean and Ruth D. and John T. Hazel chair in public policy at the Schar School of Policy and Government of George Mason University. His research concerns various topics in United States politics and government such as executive privilege, the presidency, the intersection of religion and politics, and federalism, among other topics.

#1793

Jeffrey Checkel

#30364

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Jeffrey T. Checkel is an American academic associated with the theory of constructivist school of international relations. He is currently professor and chair in International Politics at the European University Institute, Florence.

#1794

Thomas J. Dodd Jr.

#57188

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Thomas Joseph Dodd Jr. is an American diplomat and academic who served as the United States Ambassador to Uruguay and to Costa Rica . Early life and education He gained an affinity for speaking Spanish as a teenager while going down to the docks in his hometown in Connecticut, where he often interacted with Spanish speaking-immigrants who worked as fishermen. He obtained his B.S.F.S from the School of Foreign Service in 1957. He went on to earn his Master of Arts and PhD from George Washington University, where he was also formerly an adjunct professor.

#1795

David W. Rohde

#61493

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

David William Rohde is an American political scientist and the Ernestine Friedl Professor of Political Science in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University. He has researched various aspects of American politics, including the Supreme Court and Congress. Before joining the faculty at Duke, he taught at Michigan State University from 1970 to 2005. At MSU, he started the program "Political Institutions and Public Choice", which focused on encouraging collaborative research between faculty members and students. He started the same program at Duke when he joined their faculty in July 2005.

#1796

David Ginsburg

#44397

Overall Influence

1912 - 2010 (98 years)

Charles David Ginsburg was an American political advisor and lawyer who was among the founders of Americans for Democratic Action and served as executive director of the Kerner Commission, which warned that the U.S. was "moving toward two societies—one black, one white, separate and unequal."

#1797

Mark N. Franklin

#72063

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Mark Newman Franklin is a political scientist specializing in voting and elections. Since September 2006, Franklin had been the inaugural Stein Rokkan Professor of Comparative Politics at the European University Institute until he retired in 2011. He is the founder of the Public Opinion and Participation Section of the European Union Studies Association, and was the President of the European Politics and Society section of the American Political Science Association. He was John R. Reitemeyer Professor Emeritus of International Politics at Trinity College until he retired in 2007 and Local Affiliate at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

#1798

Kim Richard Nossal

#56735

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Kim Richard Nossal, PhD, FRSC, is a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Studies and the Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Education and career Born in London, England, Nossal was educated in Melbourne, Beijing, Toronto, and Hong Kong. He attended the University of Toronto, receiving his BA, MA, and PhD in 1977. In 1976 he joined the Department of Political Science at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he taught international relations and Canadian foreign policy for 25 years, serving as chair of the Department from 1989 to 1990 and from 1992 to 1996 respectively.

#1799

Jens Meierhenrich

#29287

Overall Influence

Jens Meierhenrich is a scholar of international relations at London School of Economics who directs the university's Centre for International Studies. Works

#1800

Sara Hagemann

#63788

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Sara Hagemann is a Danish academic and an expert on international and European politics. She has published extensively on issues related to political processes and representation in the European Union, transparency in politics, and the role of national parliaments in international affairs. Sara is currently Professor of Political Science and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Copenhagen University, where she joined in September 2021. Before then she was associate professor at the London School of Economics and Associate Dean at the LSE School of Public Policy and a faculty member of the LSE European Institute.

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