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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#3201

Jack Nagel

#172759

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Jack Henry Nagel is a political scientist and an emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His focus is on political participation and democratic theory, principally in anglophone political systems. In addition to his position at the University of Pennsylvania, he is also a visitor at the University of Essex, and a Fulbright Scholar at the New Zealand University of Canterbury, and held the presidency of the Penn Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty for the academic year 2014–15.

#3202

Alan Hirsch

#61623

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Alan L. Hirsch is an American academic who has taught at Williams College since 2006, and has chaired the Justice and Law Studies program for most of that time. Hirsch, who received his BA from Amherst College and JD at Yale Law School, serves as a trial consultant and expert witness in false confessions. He has been retained in roughly 400 cases and testified in 50. Hirsch testified in the highly-publicized case of Skylar Richardson, a teenage girl accused of killing her newborn baby and burying it in her backyard. Richardson was acquitted.

#3203

Patricia A. Weitsman

Patricia A. Weitsman

#123720

Overall Influence

1964 - 2014 (50 years)

Patricia Ann Weitsman was an American political scientist and international relations professor at Ohio University where she was also Director of War and Peace Studies. She specialized in security studies and international relations theory, especially on topics related to military alliances.

#3204

Marie Breen Smyth

#37930

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Marie Breen Smyth is an author, teacher and researcher from Northern Ireland. She has published on topics such as the Northern Ireland conflict, particularly the human impact, trauma, victim politics, children and armed conflict, research ethics and methods, religion and conflict, and issues to do with political violence in Southern Africa, Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland.

#3205

Eleanor Antin

#30900

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Eleanor Antin is an American performance artist, film-maker, installation artist, conceptual artist, feminist artist, and university professor. Early life and education Eleanor Fineman was born in the Bronx on February 27, 1935. Her parents, Sol Fineman and Jeanette Efron, were Polish Jews who had recently immigrated to the United States. She had one sister, Marcia, born 1940.

#3206

Michael Dawson

#109806

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Michael C. Dawson is an American political scientist, currently the John D. MacArthur professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He is also the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture there. He studies the political behavior, public opinion, and political ideology of African Americans, using both quantitative methods and political theory.

#3207

Tom Luken

#80934

Overall Influence

1925 - 2018 (93 years)

Thomas Andrew Luken was an American politician of the Democratic Party from Ohio, serving in the United States House of Representatives during the 1970s and 1980s. Early life and education Luken received his high school diploma in 1942 from Purcell High School. During the Second World War, Luken served as a U.S. Marine. In 1947, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Xavier University in Cincinnati, after having earned some credits at Bowling Green State University. In 1950, he earned a law degree at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University and began practicing law...

#3208

Christina Boswell

#150666

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Christina Anne Boswell is a political scholar. She is a Professor of Politics and Vice Principal for Research and Enterprise at the University of Edinburgh. Biography Boswell was born in London and attended the Sacred Heart High School in Hammersmith. She completed undergraduate studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford and a MSc in Public Administration at the College of Europe. In 2001 she gained her PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

#3209

Thierry Bianquis

#29729

Overall Influence

1935 - 2014 (79 years)

Thierry Bianquis was a French Orientalist and Arabist. His main interest was the medieval Islamic Middle East, most notably the Fatimid era of Egypt and Syria, which was the subject of his dissertation.

#3210

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

#173191

Overall Influence

#3211

Anatoly Novoseltsev

#53021

Overall Influence

1933 - 1995 (62 years)

Anatoly Petrovich Novoseltsev was a Russian orientalist who brought to light and translated into Russian a slew of obscure Persian and Arab documents relating to the early history of Kievan Rus'. Together with Vladimir Pashuto he authored The Foreign Policy of Ancient Rus , a groundbreaking study that demonstrated that Rus' had been as active in the Caucasus and Central Asia as it had been in Europe. He later published a sketch of the history of Khazaria and opposed the Anti-Normanist dogma perpetuated in the official Soviet historiography inter alia by Boris Rybakov.

#3212

Nissim Mannathukkaren

#67957

Overall Influence

Nissim Mannathukkaren is an associate professor and chair in Dalhousie University's Department of International Development Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Rupture with Memory: Derrida and the Specters that Haunt Marxism is his first book .

#3213

Tali Mendelberg

#140848

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Tali Mendelberg is the John Work Garrett Professor in Politics at Princeton University, and winner of the American Political Science Association , 2002 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award for her book, The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality.

#3214

Paul Kelly

#119547

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Paul Joseph Kelly is Professor of Political Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science , and Head of the Department of Government. Research Kelly’s early work and main contribution as a historian of political theory was as part of a group of revisionist Bentham scholars, having worked on the manuscripts at the Bentham Project at University College London. Kelly rejected the common claim that Bentham was a crude act-utilitarian. Instead, he argued that Bentham developed a complex two-level utilitarian theory similar to those of contemporary indirect utilitarian theorists such as R. M.

#3215

Roger Awan-Scully

#148361

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Roger Awan-Scully, , also known as Roger Scully, is a British political scientist and academic. He has authored numerous books including: Becoming Europeans? Attitudes, Behaviour, and Socialization in the European Parliament, and co-authored Representing Europe’s Citizens? Electoral Institutions and the Failure of Parliamentary Representation in Europe and Wales Says Yes: Devolution and the 2011 Welsh Referendum. He is full professor of political science at the School of Law and Politics of Cardiff University. He is principal investigator for the ESRC-funded 2016 Welsh Election Study. Scully s...

#3216

Ra Jong-yil

#112079

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Ra Jong-yil is a former South Korean ambassador who has authored books on politics concerning North Korea. Education Ra received a PhD at the University of Cambridge. Career Ra served as South Korea's ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2001 to 2003 and as its ambassador to Japan from 2004 to 2007.

#3217

Kimberly Breier

#146949

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Kimberly Breier is an American diplomat, who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs from October 15, 2018 until her resignation on August 8, 2019. Early life Breier was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts. She completed a bachelor's degree in Spanish at Middlebury College and a master's degree in Latin American studies at the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University.

#3218

Péter Balázs

#110164

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Péter Balázs is a Hungarian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2010. In addition to his native Hungarian, he speaks English, French, German and Russian. He graduated from Budapest School of Economics in 1963 and worked in the Hungarian government until 1 May 2004, when his country joined the European Union and was appointed to the European Commission with Michel Barnier under Romano Prodi.

#3219

Siobhan O'Sullivan

#76332

Overall Influence

1974 - 2023 (49 years)

Siobhan O'Sullivan was an Australian political scientist and political theorist. She was an associate professor in the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales. Her research focused, among other things, on animal welfare policy and the welfare state. She was the author of Animals, Equality and Democracy and a coauthor of Getting Welfare to Work and Buying and Selling the Poor . She co-edited Contracting-out Welfare Services and The Political Turn in Animal Ethics . She was the founding host of the regular animal studies podcast Knowing Animals.

#3220

Fabrizio Tonello

#51308

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Fabrizio Tonello is professor at University of Padua and teaches Public opinion sciences. He has been Visiting Fellow of Columbia University in New York. He previously taught at the Communication studies department of University of Bologna and at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste.

#3221

David Hawkes

#49454

Overall Influence

1923 - 2009 (86 years)

David Hawkes was a British sinologist and translator. After being introduced to Japanese through codebreaking during the Second World War, Hawkes studied Chinese and Japanese at Oxford University between 1945 and 1947 before studying at Peking University from 1948 to 1951. He then returned to Oxford, where he completed his D.Phil. and later became Shaw Professor of Chinese. In 1971, Hawkes resigned his position to focus entirely on his translation of the famous Chinese novel The Story of the Stone , which was published in three volumes between 1973 and 1980. He retired in 1984 to rural Wale...

#3222

Lea Ypi

#119941

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Lea Ypi is an Albanian author and academic. She is a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics. In 2022, she was named one of the world's top ten thinkers by the British magazine Prospect and one of the most important cultural figures by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Her work has been translated in 30 languages. She is a member of the jury of the Deutscher Memorial Prize.

#3223

Robert Dahlstrom

#45264

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Robert F. Dahlstrom is an American organizational theorist who is the Seibert Professor in the Miami University Department of Marketing. known for his work on international marketing. Education Dahlstrom obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration from Xavier University in 1980 and a PhD in marketing at the University of Cincinnati in 1990.

#3224

Evan Charney

#61037

Overall Influence

Evan Charney is an American political scientist and associate professor of the practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is also an affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society and a faculty network member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. He originally joined the Sanford School faculty in 1999, while he was still a Ph.D. student. His research focuses on the intersection between public policy and neuroscience. He is known for his criticism of genopolitics and the assumptions on which such research is based. He has compared studies linking human ge...

#3225

Carol Bacchi

#120658

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Carol Lee Bacchi is a Canadian-Australian political scientist. She is the Professor Emerita of Politics at the University of Adelaide. She was the first female lecturer appointed by the university in the Politics Department and the first woman to be granted tenure. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2000.

#3226

Paul A. Russo

#85672

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Paul A. Russo is an American diplomat. He was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, St. Vincent, and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1986 to 1988, under Ronald Reagan.

#3227

Jon Van Til

#115338

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Jon Van Til is one of the pioneers in nonprofit organization research and education and the third sector, with particular interests in voluntary action, civil society and theories of the third sector. Dr. Van Til is Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Community Planning at Rutgers University, Camden.

#3228

Nadia Brown

#154212

Overall Influence

#3229

Bathsheba Nell Crocker

Bathsheba Nell Crocker

#119866

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Bathsheba "Sheba" Nell Crocker is an American diplomat who is currently serving as the Representative of the United States to the European Office of the United Nations. She previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 2014 to 2017.

#3230

Rebecca Adler-Nissen

#158942

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Rebecca Adler-Nissen is a Danish political scientist specializing in international politics, particularly in European integration and the European Union, as well as the relationship between EU and its member states. She is a professor in the department of political science at the University of Copenhagen.

#3231

Fabio Franchino

#168032

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Fabio Franchino is an Italian political scientist, professor at the University of Milan. He is editor of the Italian Political Science Review and associate editor of European Union Politics. His areas of specialization are EU politics and policy, comparative politics, and policy analysis, and is author of influential publications in these fields.

#3232

Aant Elzinga

#81897

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Aant Elzinga is professor emeritus at the University of Gothenburg. In 1984 he set up a unit for science and technology foresight at the Science Council of Canada. From 1991 to 1997 he was president of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. He is a member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg and affiliated with the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at Gothenburg University. He is also a founding member of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research's Action group for history of Antarctic science. Member of Internation...

#3233

Paul Graham Taylor

#99420

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Paul Graham Taylor is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His main areas of expertise are European integration and international organisations. From 2001 to 2004 he was Director of the European Institute at the same institution.

#3234

Jane Green

#75665

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Jane Green is a British political scientist and academic. She is Professor of Political Science and British Politics at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow of Nuffield College. She is a specialist in public opinion and electoral behaviour, and has co-directed the British Election Study.

#3235

Mamie Locke

#143505

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Mamie Evelyn Locke is an American politician and educator. A Democrat, she was a member of the Hampton, Virginia city council 1996–2004, and mayor 2000–2004. Education Locke received a B.A. degree in history and political science from Tougaloo College in 1976. She then attended Atlanta University for advanced political science studies, receiving an M.A. in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1984. She also completed a program in Middle Eastern studies at the American University in Cairo in 1986.

#3236

Ingrid van Biezen

#162096

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Ingrid van Biezen is Professor of Comparative Politics at Leiden University, and the editor of the political science journal Acta Politica. Her research interests include comparative European politics, political parties and party systems in Europe, democratisation, Southern Europe, and post-communist politics.

#3237

Jean-Pierre Mahé

#86655

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Jean-Pierre Mahé is a French orientalist, philologist and historian of Caucasus, and a specialist of Armenian studies. Bibliography 1978: Hermès en Haute-Égypte, t. 1 : Les textes hermétiques de Nag Hammadi et leurs parallèles grecs et latins , Québec , 171 p. in 8°1982: Hermès en Haute-Égypte, t. 2 : Le fragment du Discours parfait et les Définitions hermétiques arméniennes , Québec-Louvain , L + 565 p. in 8°1985: Le livre arménien à travers les âges, with Raymond Haroutioun Kevorkian, Catalogue de l'Exposition Marseille 1985 : Le livre arménien à travers les âges.1986: Catalogue des « incun...

#3238

Adria Lawrence

#159010

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Adria K. Lawrence is an American political scientist and the Aronson Associate Professor of International Studies and Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She is known for her expertise on colonialism, nationalism, conflict, collective action, and Middle Eastern and North African politics.

#3239

Mahendra Lawoti

#150332

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Mahendra Lawoti is professor at the department of political science at Western Michigan University, writer of several books and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh with dissertation of Exclusionary Democratization: Multicultural Society and Political Institutions in Nepal.

#3240

Kristin Goss

#124857

Overall Influence

Kristin Anne Goss is an American political scientist. She is a Professor of Public Policy and Political Science in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. She specializes in the politics of gun control, advocacy by women's organizations, the formation of political movements, philanthropy and public policy, and civic engagement in the United States.

#3241

Dennis C. Jett

#172357

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Dennis Coleman Jett is an American diplomat and academic. He served as the United States ambassador to Mozambique and Peru under the Clinton administration and is currently a professor of international relations at the School of International Affairs at The Pennsylvania State University. From 2000 to 2008, he was the Dean of the International Center and lecturer of political science at the University of Florida.

#3242

Daniele Conversi

#94386

Overall Influence

Daniele Conversi is a political historian, social theorist, academic, and author. He is a research professor at the University of the Basque Country and the Ikerbasque Foundation for Science. Conversi is most known for his contributions to the fields of political and social history, particularly for improving contemporary understanding of historical events, movements, and societal changes, specialising in Spain and the north Mediterranean. Best known for his comparative work on the cultural politics of nationalism and, more recently, for his research on nationalism and climate change. His books include Cambiamenti Climatici.

#3243

Mateusz Gniazdowski

#139466

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Mateusz Gniazdowski is a Polish political scientist, since 2022 serving as an ambassador to the Czech Republic. Life In 2000, Gniazdowski graduated with honours from Political Science at the University of Warsaw. He received his doctoral degree from the Slovak Academy of Sciences. From 2004 to 2010 he worked at the Polish Institute of International Affairs . He was deputy head of the PISM Research Office and co-ordinator of the programme for bilateral relations in Europe. In 2010, he joined the Centre for Eastern Studies . He was head of the Central European Department. Between 15 February 2016 and September 2022 he was Deputy Director there.

#3244

Ben Ross Schneider

#121370

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Ben Ross Schneider is an American political scientist and professor. He is currently the Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the MIT Chile Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#3245

Onno Ruding

#67923

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Herman Onno Christiaan Rudolf "Onno" Ruding is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal party and businessman. Ruding worked as student researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam from June 1964 until July 1969 and worked as a civil servant for the Ministry of Finance from February 1965 until June 1971 and as Deputy Director-General of the department for International Monetary Affairs from February 1965 until September 1966 and Director-General of the Department for International Monetary Affairs from September 1966 until June 1971. Ruding worked as an investment banker for the AMRO Bank from June 1971 until January 1977.

#3246

Li Feng

#101344

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Li Feng , or Feng Li, is a professor of Early Chinese History and Archaeology at Columbia University, where he is director of graduate studies for the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture. He received his MA in 1986 from the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and his Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of Chicago. He also did Ph.D. work in the University of Tokyo . He is both a field archaeologist and an historian of Early China with primary interest in bronze inscriptions of the Shang-Zhou period. Li founded the Columbia Early China Seminar in 2002, and dir...

#3247

Jack Ernest Vincent

#121417

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Jack Ernest Vincent is a Borah Professor Emeritus of the Department of Political Science at the University of Idaho. Education Jack received his Bachelor of Science in General Studies from Portland State College in 1957. He went on to earn his Master's Degree in Political Science from the University of Oregon in 1960. In 1964, still attending the University of Oregon he received his Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science.

#3248

Sonia Mazey

#171765

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Sonia Mazey is a New Zealand political science academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Canterbury. Academic career After a PhD titled 'The theory and practice of the 1972 French regional reform 1972-1980, with special reference to Brittany : an example of incremental decision making' at the University of Oxford, she moved to the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor.

#3249

Carl Bogus

#74874

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Carl T. Bogus is an author and Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Roger Williams University School of Law in Rhode Island. Education and career Bogus received both his J.D. and A.B. degrees from Syracuse University. He joined the faculty of Roger Williams University School of Law in 1996 as an associate professor, and became a full professor there in 2002.

#3250

Mary G. Dietz

#119039

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Mary Golden Dietz is the John Evans Emerita Professor of Political Theory at Northwestern University. She holds a joint appointment in Northwestern's Department of Political Science and its Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. She is the author of many books and articles in feminist theory and the history of philosophy and her work has been translated into French, Spanish, Czech, Turkish, and Japanese. She edited the journal Political Theory from 2005 to 2012. Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern in 2007, she taught at the University of Minnesota. She announced her retirement in 202...

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