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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#1851

Bruce A. Williams

#78375

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Bruce A. Williams is an American political scientist and media studies scholar. Biography Williams received a PhD in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1980. He has held faculty positions at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois, and the London School of Economics. Presently, Williams is a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has been a co-editor of the academic journal The Communication Review since 1999.

#1852

John Meisel

#47046

Overall Influence

1923 - Present (101 years)

John Meisel is a Canadian political scientist, professor, and scholar, and former chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. He has written extensively on various aspects of politics, notably on parties, elections, ethnic relations, politics and leisure culture, and, at the beginning of his academic career, international politics.

#1853

Carol Graham

#52475

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Carol Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a College Park professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor , and the author of numerous books, papers and edited volume chapters.

#1854

David H. Bayley

#70447

Overall Influence

1933 - 2020 (87 years)

David H. Bayley was an American political scientist who taught at the University of Denver and the State University of New York at Albany. He was dean of SUNY Albany's School of Criminal Justice from 1995-2004 and was Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He authored 18 books, and he became a "policing research pioneer." Bayley was described in 2015 as “America’s principal, most respected and longest serving policing expert at-large and the world’s preeminent scholar of international policing studies.”

#1855

R. Michael Alvarez

#79526

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Ramon Michael Alvarez is professor of political science at California Institute of Technology , as well as the co-director of the Voting Technology Project, a joint Caltech-Massachusetts Institute of Technology initiative.

#1856

Michael Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan

#41044

Overall Influence

1949 - 2017 (68 years)

Michael Charles Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan was a British diplomat and crossbench life peer. Education Williams attended Sandfields Comprehensive School, Baglan in Port Talbot. He was later to use the village name of 'Baglan' in his title on entering the House of Lords as a Labour peer in 2010.

#1857

Yassamine Mather

#84021

Overall Influence

Yassamine Mather is an Iranian scholar and political activist. She is the acting editor of Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory. Her research on Iran is within the framework of the Middle East Centre, University of Oxford where she works She is the chair of the Hands Off the People of Iran .

#1858

Mulugeta Gebrehiwot

#75842

Overall Influence

Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe is a peace researcher holding the position, , of a senior fellow at the World Peace Foundation, Tufts University. He was a rebel of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front when the EPRDF was a guerilla army. He led the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration program of the 380,000 armed rebels after the EPRDF gained control of Ethiopia in 1991. Mulugeta was a mediator in the Darfur Peace Agreement negotiations that led to the 2006 Abuja Agreement and the 2011 Doha Agreement during peace process for the War in Darfur. He was founding Director of the Institute for Peace and Security Studies in 2007.

#1859

Zoya Hasan

#76711

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Zoya Hasan is an Indian academic and political scientist. Education and career She was Professor of Political Science and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She served as a member of the National Commission for Minorities from 2006 to 2009. She has been a Visiting Professor to the Universities of Zurich, Edinburgh, and Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris, and held fellowships at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Rockefeller Centre, Bellagio, and Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. She has worked on research ...

#1860

Abdulwahab Hussain

#81767

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Abdulwahab Hussain Ali Ahmed Esmael is a Bahraini political activist, writer, religious figure and philosopher. He was one of the most prominent opposition leaders in the 1990s uprising when he was arrested twice for a total length of five years in which he was allegedly subjected to solitary confinement and torture. After his release in 2001, he supported government reform plans.

#1861

Anna Grzymala

#66568

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Anna Maria Grzymala-Busse is an American political scientist. She is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies in the department of political science at Stanford University. She is also a senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and director of The Europe Center at Stanford University. Grzymala-Busse is known for her research on state development and transformation, religion and politics, political parties, informal political institutions, and post-communist politics. Previously, she was the Ronald Eileen Weiser Professor at University of Mic...

#1862

Peter Thomson

#36175

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Peter Thomson is a Fijian diplomat and the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean, and President of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2016 until September 2017. He served as Fiji's Permanent Representative to the United Nations February 2010 to August 2017, with concurrent duties as Fiji's Ambassador to Cuba.

#1863

Steffen Kailitz

#81018

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Steffen Kailitz is a German political scientist and a senior research fellow at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism. He specializes in comparative studies of democracy, extremism, totalitarianism, electoral systems and studies of political parties. He has also testified as an expert witness before the Federal Constitutional Court, the Parliament of Bavaria and other government authorities.

#1864

John J. DiIulio Jr.

#71071

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

John J. Dilulio Jr. is an American political scientist. He currently serves as the Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

#1865

Christopher J. Hill

#58782

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Christopher John Hill is an emeritus Professor of international relations at the University of Cambridge. Education Hill was educated at the University of Oxford where he received both his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.

#1866

Lloyd Axworthy

#49061

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Lloyd Norman Axworthy is a Canadian politician, elder statesman and academic. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Following his retirement from parliament, he served as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Winnipeg from 2004 to 2014 and as chancellor of St. Paul's University College . He is currently the Chair of the World Refugee & Migration Council.

#1867

Ira Carmen

#46595

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Ira Harris Carmen graduated from the University of Michigan and is an American Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he taught from 1968 to 2009.

#1868

Brent Nelsen

#45331

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Brent Franklin Nelsen is an American political science professor at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He served as chair of the South Carolina Educational Television Commission, having been appointed to the position by South Carolina governor Nikki Haley in 2011. He was reappointed to an additional six-year term in 2014. He resigned from the Commission in 2019.

#1869

Calvin Plimpton

#26695

Overall Influence

1918 - 2007 (89 years)

Calvin Hastings Plimpton was an American physician and educator, who served as president of Amherst College and American University of Beirut. He is known for appointing a commission in 1970 whose findings resulted in the admission of women to Amherst in 1975.

#1870

Yechiel Leiter

#50423

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Dr Yechiel Leiter is an Israeli historian of philosophy, and also a public policy analyst. Leiter is a resident scholar at Jerusalem's Herzl Institute. He has previously served as Chief of Staff to Benjamin Netanyahu at Israel's Ministry of Finance and as political assistant to Ariel Sharon in Israel's parliament. Leiter is also an ordained Rabbi and has written three books and numerous essays on politics in the Middle East.

#1871

Simon Reich

#89954

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Simon Reich is a scholar best known for his work in international relations, human security, and grand strategy. He is a professor in the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University - Newark in Newark, New Jersey.

#1872

Jolyon Howorth

#65018

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Jolyon Michael Howorth is a British scholar of French history, European politics and defense policy. He is currently Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics and Professor Emeritus of European Studies at the University of Bath; and a Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. He served as Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government . He was Visiting Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale University . He served as Professor of French Civilization at the University of Bath from ...

#1873

Gregory Claeys

#40399

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Gregory Claeys is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of London. Career He gained his PhD at the University of Cambridge, where he studied at Jesus College, and was a Junior Research Associate at King's College, working on the "Political Economy and Society" project. From 1982 to 1987 he taught British and American studies at Universität Hannover in Hannover, then West Germany. Then he was Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1992 to 2020 he was Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. His interests are the history of radicalism an...

#1874

Karel Werner

#7694

Overall Influence

1925 - 2019 (94 years)

Karel Werner was an indologist, orientalist, religious studies scholar, and philosopher of religion born in Jemnice in what is now the Czech Republic. Life Werner has described his childhood in the small town in south Moravia as idyllic. His father was a ‘master-baker’ and ran a small confectionery shop, and his mother was originally a qualified cook. The idyll ended when in 1933 their house was sold in an auction as a result of arrears in mortgage repayments during the great depression.

#1875

Susan Herbst

#76113

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Susan Herbst is an American political scientist and academic administrator who served as the 15th president of the University of Connecticut. She was named president on December 20, 2010, and took office on June 1, 2011. She succeeded Michael J. Hogan and was the first woman to be selected as the University of Connecticut's president since the school's founding in 1881. In August of 2019, Herbst was succeeded by Thomas C. Katsouleas.

#1876

Samuel Barkin

#68531

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

J. Samuel Barkin is a Canadian political scientist and a professor of global governance and human security at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Academic career After receiving his BA and MA from the University of Toronto, Barkin got his MPhil and PhD from Columbia University.

#1877

Scott Gates

#61572

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Scott Gates is an American political scientist and economist based in Norway. He was director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo 's Centre for the Study of Civil War , which was a Norwegian Center of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway for a twelve-year period 2002-2013. He is currently a Research Professor at PRIO, a Guest Researcher at ESOP in the Department of Economics at the University in Oslo and also holds a professorship in the Department of Political science at the University of Oslo. He used to work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Michiga...

#1878

Jack Citrin

#78232

Overall Influence

Jack Citrin is an American political scientist. He is the director of the Institute of Governmental Studies and a professor emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-author and co-editor of several books about national identity and tax resistance.

#1879

Brockway McMillan

Brockway McMillan

#7771

Overall Influence

1915 - 2016 (101 years)

Brockway McMillan was an American government official and scientist, who served as the eighth Under Secretary of the Air Force and the second Director of the National Reconnaissance Office. McMillan was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1915, the only child of Franklin Richardson McMillan, a civil engineer, and Luvena Lucille Brockway McMillan, a schoolteacher. He received his B.S. in 1936 and a Ph.D. 1939 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a thesis entitled The calculus of discrete homogenous chaos supervised by Norbert Wiener. He also served in the U.S. Navy at Dahlgren and Los Alamos during World War II.

#1880

Stephen Balch

#36698

Overall Influence

Stephen H. Balch is an American conservative scholar and higher education reformer. He was the founding president of the National Association of Scholars from 1987 to 2009. Biography Early life Balch was born on January 31, 1944, into a Jewish family and grew up in Brooklyn, New York City. In 1979 he married Maria Schelz, and they have two children: Leah and Daniel.

#1881

Victoria Schuck

#81705

Overall Influence

1909 - 1999 (90 years)

Victoria Schuck was an American political scientist who was the president of Mount Vernon College from 1977 to 1983. As an expert on the political participation of women and women as political candidates, she contributed to the development of the study of women and politics as a subfield of political science. She also specialized in the state politics of New England, and the politics of South Vietnam. As one of the first 80 women to earn a PhD in political science, Schuck published extensively on the status of women in the profession. In total she published more than 80 articles or monographs, and co-edited several academic books.

#1882

Hanes Walton Jr.

#63311

Overall Influence

1941 - 2013 (72 years)

Hanes Walton Jr. was an American political scientist and professor of African-American studies who pioneered the study of race in American politics. He was an early advocate for the creation of African-American politics as a subfield of political science, and he has been credited with developing the scientific study of Black politics. Walton published dozens of books and more than 100 journal articles or book chapters, investigating topics like African-American political participation and representation, Black conservatism, political parties in the United States, and the American presidency.

#1883

Brad Evans

#18829

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Brad Evans is a British academic, and Professor of Political Violence at the department of Politics, Languages & International Studies at the University of Bath, United Kingdom. He is the founder and director of the Centre for the Study of Violence.

#1884

Klaus Schlichte

Klaus Schlichte

#75373

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Klaus Schlichte is a German political scientist. He is Professor for international relations at University of Bremen. Education Schlichte studied political science, Africa science and economy at Hamburg University and University of Bordeaux. In 1995 he erarned a Ph.D. from University of Hamburg in political science. In 2006 he got his Habilitation in political science from Goethe University Frankfurt.

#1885

Edmund Ghareeb

#51156

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Edmund Ghareeb is a Lebanese-American scholar at the American University in Washington and a professor at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He earned a BA from the American International College and an MA and a PhD from Georgetown University.

#1886

İlter Turan

#28835

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Adil İlter Turan is a Turkish academic. He is a professor of Political Science in the Department of International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University. He was Rector of the University from 1998 to 2001. He was the Program Chair of the 21st World Congress of Political Science, organized by the International Political Science Association in 2009.

#1887

Catherine Wihtol de Wenden

#62725

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Catherine Wihtol de Wenden is a French political scientist. She is the Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and a senior researcher at the Institute for International Political Studies. Wihtol de Wenden specializes in migration studies. She is also an activist for the right to immigration in France.

#1888

Colin Aikman

#36128

Overall Influence

1919 - 2002 (83 years)

Colin Campbell Aikman was a New Zealand public servant, lawyer and diplomat. He was professor of jurisprudence and constitutional law at Victoria University of Wellington between 1955 and 1968; first Vice Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji; and New Zealand's High Commissioner to India and Bangladesh and Ambassador to Nepal between 1975 and 1978.

#1889

John C. Green

#53416

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

John Clifford Green is an American academic who has written numerous books on the relationship between religion and politics. Education John Clifford Green received his B.A. degree from the University of Colorado and his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University.

#1890

Edward L. Shaughnessy

#39950

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Edward Louis Shaughnessy is an American Sinologist, scholar, and educator, known for his studies of early Chinese history, particularly the Zhou dynasty, and his studies of the Classic of Changes . Life and career Edward Shaughnessy was born on July 29, 1952. He attended the University of Notre Dame as an undergraduate student, graduating in 1974 with a B.A. in theology, after which he spent several years studying Chinese in Taiwan and Japanese in Kyoto, Japan. He then went to Stanford University for graduate study in Asian languages, earning his Ph.D. in 1983 with a dissertation entitled "The Composition of the Zhouyi".

#1891

Etel Solingen

#50456

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Etel L. Solingen is a Distinguished Professor and the Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California Irvine. She was President of the International Studies Association in 2012-2013 and received the 2018 William and Katherine Estes Award from the National Academy of Sciences; the 2022 Richard Holbrooke Prize from the American Academy in Berlin; the 2020 Susan Strange Professorship at the London School of Economics; and the 2019 Distinguished Scholar award in International Security from the International Studies Association.

#1892

David Newman

#60312

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

David Newman OBE is a British-Israeli scholar in political geography and geopolitics. He is a professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Department of Politics and Government and was this department's first chairperson. Newman also served as chief editor of the academic journal Geopolitics and as Dean of BGU's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

#1893

Nancy Hirschmann

#74553

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Nancy Joan Hirschmann is an American political scientist. She is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania where she specializes in the history of political thought, analytical philosophy, feminist theory, disability theory, and the intersection of political theory and public policy.

#1894

Bill Durodié

#34514

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Professor Bill Durodié is a Professor of Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of Bath, UK, as well as a former head of department there. Education Durodié was educated at the Royal College of Science, part of Imperial College London, where he studied Physics. After completing a final year undergraduate project to map different types of supernovae onto the Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies, he was invited to start a PhD in Astronomy at the University of Manchester under the supervision of Professor Franz Daniel Kahn. His first research publication was in theoretical...

#1895

Samuel Merrill III

#79072

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Samuel Merrill III is an American mathematician and political scientist best known for his work on alternative voting systems, voter behavior, party competition, and arbitration. Merrill was raised in Bogalusa, Louisiana. He received his bachelor's degree from Tulane University and his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1965 from Yale University under C. E. Rickart with thesis Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions. Merrill was a professor of mathematics and statistics at Wilkes University until he retired in 2004.

#1896

Robert Lieber

#54524

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Robert J. Lieber is an American academic and Professor of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Lieber is the author or editor of a total of seventeen books and has served as the Chair of the Government Department and as Interim Chair of Psychology.

#1897

Benedict Kingsbury

#34388

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Benedict William Kingsbury is Vice Dean and Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University and a leading scholar in international law and diplomacy. He was recently also announced as a faculty director for the new NYU Law Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies. Born in Holland and raised in Hamilton, New Zealand he was a Rhodes Scholar in 1982, a commercial law graduate from Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand and a doctor of International Relations and Law at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He lectured at Oxford University and Duke University prior to his New York University Law School appointment.

#1898

Henning Meyer

#59659

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Henning Meyer is a German social scientist, consultant and policy specialist. He is the first Fellow of the German Federal Ministry of Finance and honorary professor for Public Policy and Business at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Furthermore, he is research associate at Cambridge University’s Centre for Business Research , Future World Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of Change at IE University and founder and editor-in-chief of Social Europe. Previously, he was John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, senio...

#1899

Laura Rosenberger

#72695

Overall Influence

Laura Rosenberger is an American diplomat currently serving as Chair of the American Institute in Taiwan . She formerly served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for China and Taiwan at the National Security Council in the Biden administration.

#1900

Wang Huning

#50479

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Wang Huning is a Chinese political theorist and one of the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party , who is currently the Chairman and the Party Secretary of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference . He has been a leading ideologist in the country since the 1980s. He has been a member of the CCP's Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision-making body since 2017, and is its fourth-ranking member since 2022.

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