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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#2851

Timo Koivurova

#113958

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Timo Koivurova is a research professor of the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland. He served as the director of the Centre from 2015 to 2020. His doctoral dissertation in 2001 was on environmental impact assessment in the Arctic. He became the director of the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law 2003 and research professor in 2004.

#2852

Tadatoshi Akiba

#83837

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Tadatoshi Akiba is a Japanese mathematician and politician and served as the mayor of the city of Hiroshima, Japan from 1999 to 2011. Early life He studied mathematics at the University of Tokyo, receiving a B.S. in 1966 and an M.S. in 1968. He continued his studies under John Milnor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning his PhD in mathematics in 1970. He took teaching jobs at a series of universities: State University of New York at Stony Brook , Tufts University , and Hiroshima Shudo University . His research was on topology, with an interest in homotopy groups.

#2853

Birte Siim

#99888

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Birte Siim is a Danish political scientist specializing in gender studies. From 2004 to 2018, she was professor at the Institute for Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University where she managed FREIA, the Centre of Gender Research. Her numerous books and publications have addressed gender and politics from a European perspective. In addition to coordinating European Union projects, she has been active in the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics.

#2854

G. Dennis O'Brien

#40705

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

George Dennis O'Brien is an American philosopher who served as the eighth President of the University of Rochester. O'Brien was born in Chicago, Illinois to a medical doctor and a nurse. His father was also a medical examiner and the young O'Brien accompanied him to autopsies he performed at local funeral homes. He attended St. Philip Neri grammar school and Leo Catholic High School.

#2855

Dafydd Fell

#131974

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Dafydd J. Fell is a British political scientist who has written extensively on politics of Taiwan. He is a professor in comparative politics and the director of the Center of Taiwan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies , University of London. Fell is the convenor of the MA Taiwan Studies programme of the SOAS. Under his direction, this school’s Taiwan-related courses, conferences and publications on Taiwan increased. He is the book series editor for the Routledge Research on Taiwan Series and an editor of International Journal of Taiwan Studies.

#2856

Peter Robinson

#88867

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Peter Mark Robinson is an American author, research fellow, television host and former speechwriter for then-Vice President George H. W. Bush and President Ronald Reagan. He is currently the host of Uncommon Knowledge, an interview show by Stanford's Hoover Institution. He is also a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a co-founder of the Ricochet website.

#2857

Zlatko Lagumdžija

#87942

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Zlatko Lagumdžija is a Bosnian diplomat and former politician who is the current Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations. He previously served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2001 to 2002. Lagumdžija also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2001 to 2002 and from 2012 to 2015. He was the president of the Social Democratic Party from 1997 to 2014.

#2858

Mark Beissinger

#112033

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Mark R. Beissinger is an American political scientist. He is the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics at Princeton University. Early life Beissinger received his bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Duke University in 1976 and his doctorate in political science from Harvard in 1982.

#2859

Sara Rosenbaum

#146693

Overall Influence

Sara Rosenbaum is an American lawyer. She is the Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy and Founding Chair of the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health.

#2860

Nicu Popescu

#131960

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

Nicolae "Nicu" Popescu is a Moldovan author and diplomat serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova since 6 August 2021 in the Gavrilita and then Recean cabinets. He was also Moldova's Foreign Minister in the period of 11 June - 14 November 2019 in the Sandu Cabinet. Until his appointment, he was the director of the Wider Europe programme of the European Council on Foreign Relations and visiting professor at Sciences Po-Paris.

#2861

Wayne Denis Hall

#65891

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Wayne Denis Hall is an Emeritus Professor at the National Centre for Research on Youth Substance Use Research. He was Inaugural Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research at the University of Queensland , an NHMRC Australia Fellow at the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research , Professor of Public Health Policy in the School of Population Health and Director of the Office of Public Policy and Ethics at Institute for Molecular Biosciences , at the University of Queensland. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He ha...

#2862

Sabine Carey

#92027

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Sabine C. Carey is a German political scientist. Sabine C. Carey is currently chair in Political Science IV at Universität Mannheim in Germany. She received master's degrees from the University of North Texas and Universität Konstanz and her Ph.D. from the University of Essex. She previously taught at the University of Nottingham and held a fellowship at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. She has led a Working Group on Human Rights, Governance, and Conflict at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Dr. Carey's research focuses primarily on the empirical analysis of various aspects of violent conflict, human rights violations and comparative democratization.

#2863

Gary Orfield

#151140

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

#2864

Richard F. Fenno

#151312

Overall Influence

#2865

Franz H. Michael

#111728

Overall Influence

1907 - 1992 (85 years)

Franz H. Michael was a German-born American scholar of China, whose teaching career was spent at University of Washington, Seattle, and at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Michael's research began with publications concerning the Manchus in China, the Qing dynasty and the Taiping Rebellion against it. He also studied Tibet and Inner Asia, and the tradition of authoritarian government in China, including the People's Republic of China. The themes of despotism, cultural synthesis or assimilation, and the modern fate of Confucian humanism shaped the choice of topics in Michaels' academ...

#2866

W. Phillips Shively

#151382

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Phillips Shivley is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author is a research methods text The Craft of Political Research first published in 1974 and American Democracy in Context.

#2867

Lee Ward

#114147

Overall Influence

Lee Ward is a Canadian academic currently teaching political science at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and formerly Alpha Sigma Nu Distinguished Professor of Campion College at the University of Regina. He is an Associate Professor of Political Studies. His key research interests are the history of political philosophy and American political thought.

#2868

Stuart George Hall

#151599

Overall Influence

#2869

Sara McLaughlin Mitchell

#120682

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Sara McLaughlin Mitchell is an American political scientist and the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Political Science at University of Iowa. She is known for her expertise on international relations and political methodology.

#2870

Johan Tralau

#103155

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Johan Tralau is a Swedish political scientist and writer. He teaches at Uppsala University where he is Professor of Government since 2015. His 2002 Ph.D. thesis concerns utopian ideas in the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and their development in the writings of Karl Marx and Ernst Jünger. Tralau's subsequent research has focused on the origin of political philosophy in ancient Greece and on Thomas Hobbes. In 2013 he received the Johan Lundblad Award from the Swedish Academy for his work on ancient Greece. His 2015 book Monstret i mig is about mythological monsters and what role...

#2871

Jon Kvist

#107768

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Jon Kvist is a Danish researcher and author. He is a professor at the Institute of Society and Globalization, at the Roskilde University, as well as a member of the Nordic Centre of Excellence on Reassessing the Nordic Welfare Model.

#2872

Igor Koval

#123559

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Igor Koval or Ihor Koval is a Ukrainian political scientist on international relations, Doctor of Political Sciences, professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, corresponding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Political Sciences, rector of Odesa University.

#2873

Karsten Fischer

#109464

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Karsten Fischer is a German political scientist and a historian of political ideas. He is a Professor of Political Theory at University of Munich. Biography Fischer was born 1967 in Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. He studied Political science, Philosophy and Public international law at the University of Bonn and Goethe University Frankfurt. He earned 1998 a PhD at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a dissertation titled „Verwilderte Selbsterhaltung. Zivilisationstheoretische Kulturkritik bei Nietzsche, Freud, Weber und Adorno“. Between 1994 and until Fischer completed his thesis in 1998, he was awarded the Studienstiftung scholarship.

#2874

Karla Jay

#20247

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Karla Jay is a distinguished professor emerita at Pace University, where she taught English and directed the women's and gender studies program between 1974 and 2009. A pioneer in the field of lesbian and gay studies, she is widely published.

#2875

Michael A. Levi

#74667

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Michael A. Levi was a Special Assistant to the President for Energy and Economic Policy in the Obama White House. He was previously the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and environment at the Council on Foreign Relations , a nonpartisan foreign-policy think tank and membership organization, and director of its Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies. He is an expert on energy and climate, highly regulated technology, and defense and security policy.

#2876

Mykola Tomenko

#104995

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Mykola Volodymyrovych Tomenko is a Ukrainian politician. He has been a member of Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada from 2006 until 2016. In 2014, Tomenko became a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, which elected him to the 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada on its party lists during the 2014 parliamentary election. On 25 March 2016 the party Congress of Petro Poroshenko Bloc removed Tomenko's parliamentary mandate using the Imperative mandate provisions of the Ukrainian constitution. This was considered illegal by Tomenko; on 28 July 2016 Ukraine's highest Administrative Court rejected his...

#2877

Henk Blezer

#94686

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

H.W.A. Blezer is a Dutch Tibetologist, Indologist, and scholar of Buddhist studies. Study After initial studies in Biology and Biochemistry, and also in Theology, from 1987, Blezer studied Indology at Leiden University. In 1992, he completed his 'Doctoraal' in Buddhist, Tibetan, and Vedic Studies .

#2878

Roger Kanet

#150480

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Roger E. Kanet is professor emeritus of political science and former Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and professor emeritus of political science and former Dean of the School of International Studies , University of Miami.

#2879

Toby James

#127813

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Toby Samuel James , is a professor of political science and public policy at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. James is known for his work on the fairness and integrity of elections, but also on political leadership and the policy process. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Policy Studies.

#2880

Francisco Louçã

#84042

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Francisco Anacleto Louçã is a Portuguese economist and politician. Biography He is the second son of António Seixas Louçã, a Portuguese Navy Officer, and his wife Noémia da Rocha Neves Anacleto, lawyer, granddaughter of António Neves Anacleto, from Silves, brother of Isabel Maria, António, João Carlos and Jorge Manuel, and cousin of Vítor Gaspar, former Minister of Finances at the right winged Pedro Passos Coelho's government.

#2881

Jacob Landau

#137968

Overall Influence

1924 - 2020 (96 years)

Jacob M. Landau was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Biography Landau was born on 20 March 1924 in Chișinău, Bessarabia , which he left in 1935, moving to Palestine with his parents, Miriam and Michael Landau. They settled in Tel Aviv, where he studied at the Herzliya Gymnasium, ending his school career in 1942. He took his B.A. and M.A. in 1942–1946 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in history and Arabic studies. His M.A. thesis researched the nationalist movement in modern Egypt. It was supervised by Professor Richard Michael Koebner.

#2882

Miomir Žužul

#103330

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Miomir Žužul is a Croatian diplomat and politician. He is currently a senior international policy advisor at the firm of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP in Washington, DC. Education Žužul obtained a doctorate in psychology at the University of Zagreb in 1987 as well as a doctorate in conflict management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 1990 he became a full professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.

#2883

Ada Finifter

#127453

Overall Influence

1938 - 2011 (73 years)

Ada Weintraub Finifter was an American political scientist. She specialized in American public opinion and voting behavior. Education and academic positions Finifter was born in Brooklyn on June 6, 1938. Finifter graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in political science in 1959, and then earned an MA at the University of Michigan.

#2884

Ilya L. Shapiro

#152734

Overall Influence

#2885

Anthony Milner

#90181

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Anthony Crothers Milner AM, FASSA, FAIIA, FRHistS is an Australian historian of Southeast Asia – concerned primarily with the history of ideas – and a commentator on Australia-Asia relationships. His writings on Malay history and society – and the history of Islam in Southeast Asia – include Kerajaan: Malay Political Culture on the Eve of Colonial Rule , an interdisciplinary study, published in a new edition in 2016. He is also co-editor of the series of volumes, Australia in Asia , which examine the role of culture and values in Australia-Asia relationships; and of the Asialink report on Australia-ASEAN relations, Our Place in the Asian Century: Southeast Asia as the Third Way .

#2886

David Johnston

#106521

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

David Albert Lloyd Johnston is an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate from 2002 to 2016, representing the state of Western Australia. Johnston was the Minister for Defence from 18 September 2013 to 23 December 2014, when he was replaced by Kevin Andrews.

#2887

David Johnston

#153082

Overall Influence

#2888

Mohammed Abu-Nimer

#94566

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Mohammed Abu-Nimer is an American expert on conflict resolution and dialogue for peace. He is a full professor at the American University School of International Service in International Peace and Conflict Resolution in Washington, DC, the largest school of international relations in the United States.

#2889

Lori Cox Han

#93665

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Lori Cox Han is a Professor of Political Science and Doy B. Henley Endowed Chair in American Presidential Studies at Chapman University in Orange, California. Her research interests include the American presidency, women and politics, media and politics, and political leadership.

#2890

Teresa Bejan

#120310

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

Teresa M. Bejan is an American political theorist and author. She is a professor of political theory in the department of politics and international relations at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Oriel College.

#2891

Ilan Goldenberg

#153312

Overall Influence

#2892

G. David Garson

#153411

Overall Influence

#2893

Bernhard Vogel

#99509

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Bernhard Vogel is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union . He was the 4th Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1976 to 1988 and the 2nd Minister President of Thuringia from 1992 to 2003. He is the only person to have been head of two different German federal states and is the longest-governing Minister President of Germany. He served as the 28th and 40th President of the Bundesrat in 1976/77 and 1987/88.

#2894

Tim Lang

#79993

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Timothy Mark Lang is Emeritus professor of food policy at City University London's Centre for Food Policy since 2002. He founded the Centre in 1994 and also founded the Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment.

#2895

H. Verlan Andersen

H. Verlan Andersen

#72801

Overall Influence

1914 - 1992 (78 years)

Hans Verlan Andersen was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a professor at Brigham Young University . Andersen was called to the LDS Church's First Quorum of the Seventy in April 1986. On April 1, 1989 he was transferred to the newly created Second Quorum of the Seventy. On October 5, 1991, he was released from his service as a general authority. He died of cancer on July 16, 1992.

#2896

Hiroshi Terada

#153639

Overall Influence

#2897

Lawrence Dodd

#125836

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Lawrence "Larry" Cloyd Dodd is an American political scientist and the Manning J. Dauer Eminent Scholar in Political Science at the University of Florida. He specializes in the study of the legislatures, most notably the United States Congress. He has also completed work in comparative politics, examining parliamentary systems. Dodd previously held teaching positions at the University of Texas , Indiana University-Bloomington , and at the University of Colorado .

#2898

Johannes Urpelainen

#153720

Overall Influence

#2899

Tenzin Tethong

#107753

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Tethong Tenzin Namgyal is a Tibetan politician and a former Prime Minister of Central Tibetan Administration. Naming practice Traditionally, ordinary Tibetan people carry a first personal name and may or may not carry a second personal name, but does have a family name which is known as Tethong. Tenzin Namgyal Tethong is a special case where he is of aristocratic descent from the area called Tashi Thongmon, which is abbreviated as Te-Thong. When a person carries a family name, it should come in the very beginning. When the names are translated into English, they have adopted European grammat...

#2900

Paul Lin Ta-kuang

#105193

Overall Influence

1920 - 2004 (84 years)

Paul Lin Ta-kuang Biography Youth in Canada Son of George Lim Yuen and Chiu Mon Som 趙文琛 ; marries Eileen Siu-Tsung Chen 陳恕. They had two sons, Christopher 林凱 and Douglas 林潮 .

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