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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#2051

Frederick Teiwes

#53561

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Frederick Carle Teiwes is an American-born Australian sinologist. He held a personal chair as professor emeritus in Government and International Relations at Sydney University until his retirement in 2006. He is especially known for his detailed studies, together with Warren Sun, on the history of Chinese Communist Party elite politics.

#2052

Jeff Flake

#41221

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Jeffry Lane Flake is an American politician and diplomat who is the United States ambassador to Turkey. A member of the Republican Party, Flake served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013 and in the United States Senate from 2013 to 2019, representing Arizona. He was nominated by Democratic president Joe Biden and confirmed by the Senate for his ambassador post on October 26, 2021. He presented his credentials to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Presidential Complex of Turkey in Ankara on January 26, 2022.

#2053

Božo Skoko

#64629

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Božo Skoko is a professor of public relations at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. He is Head of the Public Relations postgraduate specialist programme at the University of Zagreb. The areas of his scientific research include: public relations, communication, international relations, national identity and image and branding destination. He is a guest professor at the University of Osijek , University of Mostar and Edward Bernays University College, Zagreb. He has published seven books pertaining to public relations, to branding countries, and to the identity and image of Croatia.

#2054

Alisyn Camerota

Alisyn Camerota

#27247

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Alisyn Camerota is an American broadcast journalist and political commentator for CNN. She formerly was an anchor of CNN's morning show New Day, a co-host of the afternoon edition of CNN Newsroom, she also served as host of CNN Tonight from 2022 to 2023 as well as a presenter at Fox News. Camerota has covered stories nationally and internationally and has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award for news reporting.

#2055

Morley Winograd

#37334

Overall Influence

Morley Winograd is an American author and speaker. He serves as a Senior Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School’s Center on Communication Leadership and Policy. Michael D. Hais is a Principal of Mike & Morley and the co-author of "Millennial Momentum: How A New Generation Is Remaking America" and "Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics" . He is also a fellow with NDN, a Democratic think tank.

#2056

Paul Sniderman

#89684

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Paul Michael Sniderman is an American political scientist, and the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy at Stanford University. Early life Sniderman was born in 1941. He graduated from the University of Toronto, and he earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

#2057

Sally Shelton-Colby

#45150

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Sally Angela Shelton-Colby is an American diplomat. She was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Grenada and Dominica as well as Minister to St Lucia, and Special Representative to Antigua, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, and St. Vincent from 1979 to 1981, under Jimmy Carter.

#2058

Sue Goldie

#42440

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Sue J. Goldie is the Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health, the Director of the Center for Health Decision Science , Director of the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University, and founding Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute . Goldie has a secondary appointment as Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine . Her professional agenda includes improving women's health in all parts of the world, using evidence-based policy to reduce global health inequities, building bridges between disciplines to tackle critical public health challenges...

#2059

Peter Vale

#83282

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Peter Vale is a senior research fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and the Nelson Mandela Professor of Politics Emeritus at Rhodes University, South Africa. He is also an honorary professor at the Africa Earth Observatory Network of which he was a founding member. Notably, Vale was the founding director of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study and acting vice-rector for academic affairs and deputy vice-chancellor of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has also received an honoury doctorate in the Human...

#2060

Hal G. Rainey

#76437

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Hal Griffin Rainey is a professor of public administration and policy at the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs. He is known for his studies of organizations. Career Rainey obtained a bachelor's in English and psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, after which he served as an officer in the United States Navy. He then obtained a master's in psychology and a Ph.D. in public administration from Ohio State University. Between 1977 and 1987 he was on the faculty of Florida State University. Since 1988 he has been a professor at the Univers...

#2061

Dennis Altman

#23362

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Dennis Patkin Altman is an Australian academic and gay rights activist. Early childhood Altman was born in Sydney, New South Wales to Jewish immigrant parents, and spent most of his childhood in Hobart, Tasmania.

#2062

John Vasquez

#58329

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

John A. Vasquez is an American political scientist and the Thomas B. Mackie Scholar in International Relations and Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is a former president of International Studies Association.

#2063

Bayless Manning

#40934

Overall Influence

1923 - 2011 (88 years)

Bayless Andrew Manning was an American lawyer, law professor, writer and expert of corporate law. He served as the dean of Stanford Law School from 1964 to 1971. He left Stanford in 1971 and became the first president of the Council on Foreign Relations.

#2064

Jeremy Jennings

#24368

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Jeremy Jennings is an English political theorist and professor of political theory at King's College London. He is predominantly interested in the history of political thought, often with specific reference to France. He has authored a number of books on political topics, including the works of Georges Sorel, syndicalism and socialism. He became the founding editor of the European Journal of Political Theory. His other interests include political ideology and contemporary political theory. Jennings has been employed by the universities of Swansea and then Birmingham.

#2065

Peter G. J. Pulzer

#54486

Overall Influence

1929 - 2023 (94 years)

Peter George Julius Pulzer was an Austrian-born British historian who was Gladstone Professor of Government at the University of Oxford from 1985 till 1996. Biography Peter G. J. Pulzer was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1929 and his family migrated to the United Kingdom in 1939. He studied history at Cambridge University and gained a doctorate. Pulzer's 1966 book "The Emergence of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria 1867–1914" was published, the book was critically acclaimed in the academic work and well regarded concerning the research of anti-Semitism and is still regarded as the b...

#2066

John Wilson Lewis

#91468

Overall Influence

1930 - 2017 (87 years)

John Wilson Lewis was an American political scientist. He taught at Cornell University, before joining the faculty of Stanford University, where he became the William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics.

#2067

Staffan I. Lindberg

#99082

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Staffan I. Lindberg , is a Swedish political scientist, Principal Investigator for Varieties of Democracy Institute and Director of the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg. He is a professor in the Department of Political Science, and member of the Board of University of Gothenburg, Sweden member of the Young Academy of Sweden, Wallenberg Academy Fellow, Research Fellow at the Quality of Government Institute; and ...

#2068

Melissa Nobles

#58960

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Melissa Nobles is an American political scientist and academic administrator. She is currently Chancellor and Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She previously served as the Kenan Sahin Dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science.

#2069

Anthony Leiserowitz

#54413

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Anthony Leiserowitz is a human geographer at Yale University who studies public perceptions of climate change. He has particularly examined perceptions within the United States, where people are considerably less aware of climate change than in other countries. In the U.S., awareness of information about climate change is heavily influenced by emotion, imagery, associations, and values. Their public discourse reflects a lack of understanding of the science involved in climate change and little awareness of the potential for effective responses to it.

#2070

Joseph LaPalombara

Joseph LaPalombara

#61259

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (99 years)

Joseph LaPalombara is an American political scientist who specializes in comparative politics, group interest theory, and the foreign investments made by global firms. He is the Arnold Wolfers Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Management at Yale University, where he has been teaching for over fifty years. LaPalombara has twice chaired the political science department at Yale and has also served as the director of the Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Prior to joining Yale in 1964, LaPalombara spent three years at Oregon State University and an additional eleven years at Michigan State University.

#2071

Daniel Filmus

#55487

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Daniel Fernando Filmus is an Argentine politician and academic, currently serving as the country's Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, since 2021. Filmus formerly served as a National Senator for the City of Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2013, and as Minister of Education, Science and Technology in the government of President Néstor Kirchner. From 2014 to 2015, and later from 2019 to 2021, he was Secretary of Affairs pertaining to the Malvinas .

#2072

Anna G. Jónasdóttir

#41833

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir is an Icelandic political scientist and gender studies academic. She is Professor Emerita at the Center for Feminist Social Studies at Örebro University and co-director of the GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, established as a centre of excellence in gender studies in 2006. She is the author and editor of several books. Anna Jónasdóttir is known, i.a., for her theory of "love power." Her book Why Women Are Oppressed was described as a "thorough attempt to revitalize one of the most provocative early themes of America's women's liberation movement" by The New York Times Book Review.

#2073

Inis L. Claude

#57420

Overall Influence

1922 - 2013 (91 years)

Inis Lothair Claude, Jr. was a leading scholar in international relations and international organizations. He held academic positions in several universities, including University of Virginia, Harvard University, University of Delaware & the University of Michigan.

#2074

Chih-yu Shih

#85492

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Chih-yu Shih is a political science professor in Taiwan and National Chair Professor of the Republic of China. Life Chih-yu Shih graduated from National Taiwan University. He earned an M.P.P. at Harvard University and Ph.D. at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies .

#2075

Paul Franco

#39943

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Paul N. Franco is a professor of government at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and a leading authority on the British political philosopher Michael Oakeshott. Franco holds a B.A. from Colorado College, where he studied under Oakeshott scholar Timothy Fuller, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, where he studied under Oakeshott himself, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where his advisor was Joseph Cropsey, a friend and disciple of the political philosopher Leo Strauss. Before Bowdoin, he taught at the University of Chicago as a William Rainey Harper Fellow.

#2076

Darin Barney

#29103

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Darin Barney is a political theorist, academic and activist whose work focuses on critical theory, the philosophy of technology, infrastructure and disruptive politics. He currently hold the Grierson Chair in Communication Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In 2004 he was selected as one of fifteen "Leaders of Tomorrow" by the Partnership Group for Science and Engineering. In 2007, he delivered the Hart House Lecture at the University of Toronto. The lecture was entitled: One Nation Under Google: Citizenship in the Technological Republic.

#2077

David Schlosberg

#82048

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

David Schlosberg is an American political theorist who is currently Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia.

#2078

Chris Ham

#53566

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Sir Chris Ham , is a health policy academic who started life as a political scientist. He was chief executive of the King's Fund from 2010 to 2018. He was professor of health policy and management at University of Birmingham's health services management centre from 1992 to 2010. He was seconded to the Department of Health where he was Director of the Strategy Unit working with Alan Milburn and John Reid until 2004.

#2079

Patty Murray

#33216

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Patricia Lynn Murray is an American politician who has served as president pro tempore of the United States Senate since 2023 and the senior United States Senator from Washington since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, Murray served in the Washington State Senate from 1989 to 1993. She was Washington's first female U.S. senator and is the first woman in American history to hold the position of president pro tempore. Murray is also the youngest senator to occupy the office of president pro tempore in more than five decades. As president pro tempore, Murray is third in the line of succession to the U.S.

#2080

Christophe Crombez

#83311

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Christophe Crombez is a political economist at KU Leuven and Stanford University. Biography Crombez obtained a Licentiate in Applied Economics from KU Leuven , and a Ph.D. in Business from Stanford University .

#2081

Rudolf G. Wagner

Rudolf G. Wagner

#28462

Overall Influence

1941 - 2019 (78 years)

Rudolf G. Wagner was a German sinologist. He was Senior Professor at the Department of Chinese Studies at the Heidelberg University and Co-Director of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows".

#2082

Hossam Eisa

#67930

Overall Influence

Hossam Eisa is an Egyptian politician and academic. He served as deputy prime minister and minister of higher education of Egypt from July 2013 until 1 March 2014. Education Eisa holds a PhD in law from the University of Sorbonne in France.

#2083

Richard H. Shultz

#61053

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Richard H. Shultz, Jr. is an American scholar of international security studies. He is a Professor International Politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he is also the director of the International Security Studies Program .

#2084

Michael W. Kirst

Michael W. Kirst

#48335

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Michael W. Kirst is Professor Emeritus of Education at Stanford University and the longest serving President of California's State Board of Education. Kirst served as President of the California State Board of Education for four terms, serving from 1975 to 1982, and again from 2011 until 2019.

#2085

Allen S. Whiting

#75903

Overall Influence

1926 - 2019 (93 years)

Allen Suess Whiting was an American political scientist and former government official specializing in the foreign relations of China. Whiting was University of Arizona Regents' Professor of Political Science from 1993 to his retirement, having joined the university in 1982. He graduated from Cornell University in 1948, earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1950 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1952. After first joining the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University, he became a researcher at the RAND Corporation and served in several capacities in the U.S.

#2086

Philippe Régnier

#81702

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Philippe Régnier is Professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. He was formerly Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and Director of its Centre for Contemporary Asian Studies for 12 years. His publications focus on the socio-economic development of emerging economies.

#2087

Mark Bovens

#93251

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Marcus Alphons Petrus "Mark" Bovens is a Dutch scholar of public administration. He has been professor of public administration at Utrecht University since 2000. Bovens has been a member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy since 2013.

#2088

Han Sung-joo

#96054

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Han Sung-joo is a Korean educator, diplomatist, diplomat, and politician. Han is a member of Cheongju Han clan. He is a foreign diplomat of the Republic of Korea, former foreign minister and ambassador to the United States, and a diplomat who has been a professor since 1978 in the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Korea University.

#2089

Paul K. MacDonald

#23395

Overall Influence

Paul K. MacDonald is an American political scientist and a professor of political science at Wellesley College. He is known for his research on global power politics, U.S. foreign policy, and the political and military dimensions of overseas expansion.

#2090

Kate Shaw

#75123

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Dr. Kate Shaw is an Australian academic, planning activist and commentator, currently serving as a research fellow at the University of Melbourne. Background Kate bad Shaw worked in alternative theatre and arts publicity in Melbourne in the 1980s, before undertaking a post-Graduate Diploma in urban policy and planning and a Masters in urban planning , both at RMIT. She then moved to the University of Melbourne and taught planning law, statutory planning, urban design, and ran classes on political economy, gentrification and the cultures of cities.

#2091

Hege Skjeie

#36661

Overall Influence

1955 - 2018 (63 years)

Hege Skjeie was a Norwegian political scientist and feminist. Biography She became a Dr. Polit. in political science in 1992 and was hired as associate professor of political science at the University of Oslo in 1997. She was promoted to professor in 2000, and thus became Norway's first female Professor of Political Science. In 2010, she was appointed chairperson of the Equality Commission by the Government of Norway, established by a royal decree of 12 February 2010 in order to report on Norway’s equality policies.

#2092

Landrum Bolling

#59152

Overall Influence

1913 - 2018 (105 years)

Landrum Rymer Bolling was an American journalist and diplomat and a noted pacifist who was a leading expert and activist for peaceful resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. He first worked as a war correspondent during and after World War II. He taught at Beloit College and Brown University before serving as president of Earlham College from 1958 to 1973. He was actively involved in the foreign policies of several presidential administrations, serving as an unofficial communication channel between the U.S. and the Palestinian Liberation Organization in Jimmy Carter's administration. He ...

#2093

Richard Mulgan

#79159

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Richard Grant Mulgan is a political scientist. He was on the 1985–86 New Zealand Royal Commission that recommended MMP representation for elections to the New Zealand Parliament. Mulgan was educated at the University of Auckland, and in 1960 matriculated at Merton College, Oxford.

#2094

Don Aitkin

#63065

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Don Aitkin AO was a political scientist, writer, and administrator. Until 2012 he was Chairman of Australia’s National Capital Authority. He served as Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra from 1991 to 2002, and as Vice-President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee in 1994 and 1995. He played an influential role in the evolution of national policies for research and higher education from the mid-1980s, when he was the Chairman of the Australian Research Grants Committee, a member of the Australian Science and Technology Council, and Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University.

#2095

James Tobin

#52534

Overall Influence

#2096

Roy Grow

#66672

Overall Influence

1941 - 2013 (72 years)

Roy Grow was the Kellogg Professor of International Relations at Carleton College before retiring in April 2013. His specialty was the political economy of East Asia, specifically China and Southeast Asia. He was the faculty director of an off-campus studies program at Carleton focusing on the political economy of these regions, and had previously taught a comparative off-campus studies seminar with Alfred Montero. Grow's course topics at Carleton included US Foreign Policy history, Intelligence Theory, Terrorism, Guerrilla Warfare and Insurgency, Chinese politics, Russian and Soviet Government, Political Economy, and Marxism.

#2097

Alan Woods

#34375

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Alan Woods is a British Trotskyist political theorist and author. He is one of the leading members of the International Marxist Tendency as well as of its British affiliate group Socialist Appeal. He is political editor of the IMT's In Defence of Marxism website. Woods was a leading supporter within the Militant tendency within the Labour Party and its parent group the Committee for a Workers' International until the early 1990s. A series of disagreements on tactics and theory led to Woods and Ted Grant leaving the CWI, to found the Committee for a Marxist International in 1992. They continued with the policy of entryism into the Labour Party.

#2098

Rachel Kyte

#63537

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Rachel Elizabeth Kyte is a British academic who served as the 14th dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University from October 2019 to June 2023, and the first woman to lead the oldest graduate-only school of international affairs in the United States. She was the former Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for All, and Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All.

#2099

Jacques Thomassen

#66129

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Jacques J.A. Thomassen is a Dutch organizational theorist, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Twente, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, known for his work on the theory of political and policy representation.

#2100

Louis C. Midgley

#56459

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Louis C. Midgley is a Mormon apologist and retired professor of political science at Brigham Young University. Since his retirement he has been closely involved with the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, writing many book reviews, articles, and book chapters defending the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from perceived critics.

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