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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#3251

Charles Wilson

#37219

Overall Influence

1909 - 2002 (93 years)

Sir Charles Haynes Wilson was a Scottish political scientist and university administrator. As Principal of University College Leicester, he led the institution to university status in 1957 and served as the first Vice-Chancellor of the new University of Leicester, before becoming Principal of the University of Glasgow in 1961.

#3252

Cristina Luca Boico

Cristina Luca Boico

#71871

Overall Influence

1916 - 2002 (86 years)

Cristina Luca Boico was a Romanian communist activist. After going into exile in France, she joined the French Resistance and worked in the intelligence service. At the end of the war, she returned to Romania and worked as the director of the Ministry of Education and numerous other governmental posts, until she was purged in 1952. Working as an editor for the Scientific Publishing House she later taught at the Politehnica University of Bucharest. In 1987, she left Romania to visit her children in Paris, refusing to return. For the remainder of her life, she gave lectures and published memoi...

#3253

Arthur Kroeger

#73350

Overall Influence

1932 - 2008 (76 years)

Arthur Kroeger, was a Canadian academic and civil servant, who was referred to as the "dean of deputy ministers". Born on a farm in Naco, Alberta , Kroeger was descended from Mennonites who emigrated from Russia. He received a BA in 1955 from the University of Alberta and was a Rhodes Scholar. In 1958, he joined the Department of External Affairs and served in Geneva, New Delhi, Washington, and Ottawa. He was deputy minister of the following ministries: Indian and Northern Affairs ; Transport Canada ; Regional Industrial Expansion ; Energy, Mines and Resources ; and Employment and Immigration Canada .

#3254

Giovanni Capoccia

#168259

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Giovanni Capoccia is Professor of Comparative Politics and Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Education and career He obtained his Doctorate in Political Science at the European University Institute of Florence, Italy. Before his present post, he was Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has held a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship and in 2006-2007 he was the Rita E. Hauser Fellowship at Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.

#3255

Beverly Blair Cook

#156148

Overall Influence

1927 - 2008 (81 years)

Beverly Blair Cook was an American professor and political scientist. She is best known for her work regarding judicial behavior, public opinion and judicial decisions, and the selection of female judges.

#3256

Helmut Martin

#89665

Overall Influence

1940 - 1999 (59 years)

Helmut Martin was a German sinologist best known for his work on modern Chinese literature. Biography Martin studied Sinology and Slavic Studies in Munich, Belgrade, Paris and Heidelberg. He earned his doctorate with in 1966, on the subject of Li Yu's dramaturgy. He then won a post-doctoral scholarship and went National Taiwan University, where, among other things, he edited a 15-volume complete works of Li Yu's works, which was published in 1970. After a short stay in Kyoto, he returned to Germany in the early 1970s, and was initially a China officer at the Institute for Asian Studies in Ha...

#3257

Babken Ararktsyan

#128457

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Babken Ararktsyan is an Armenian politician. He was the former Chairman of the Supreme Council from 1991 to 1995 and Speaker of the National Assembly from 1995 to 1998. External links Biography

#3258

Amarnath Amarasingam

#79102

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Amarnath Amarasingam is a Canadian extremism researcher. Career Amarasingam studied religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University from 2007 to 2011. Since September 2011 he teaches as a lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University, since January 2012 additionally at the University of Waterloo. 2013 he was awarded a PhD with a thesis on social movement activism, his doctoral advisor was Lorne L. Dawson. From May 2014 to May 2016, he conducted research with a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council as a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University. He is a senior research fe...

#3259

You Xie

#47735

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

You Xie is a German politician, candidate in the 2019 European Parliament election, journalist, and author of Chinese origin. Life When Xie was born, there was a famine in China. He grew up during the Cultural Revolution and therefore could not attend school, but had to work in the countryside. From 1979 to 1983 he studied German and English at the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. After graduation , he worked as an interpreter for VW in Shanghai.

#3260

Kevin J. Manning

Kevin J. Manning

#40694

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Kevin J. Manning is the former president of Stevenson University, the former Villa Julie College and the third largest independent university in Maryland. He was inaugurated as the fourth president of Villa Julie College on October 28, 2000, succeeding Carolyn Manuszak. He resigned from Stevenson University on November 29, 2016.

#3261

Mahmood Monshipouri

#128337

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Mahmood Monshipouri is an Iranian-born American educator, author, and scholar. He is a professor of international relations at San Francisco State University . He has a PhD from the University of Georgia. Monshipouri previously taught at his alma mater, the University of Georgia as an instructor from 1985 to 1986; as well as taught at Central Michigan University as an adjunct assistant professor from 1988 to 1993; Alma College as a professor from 1986 to 1998; and at Quinnipiac University as a professor in the Department of Political Science from 1998.

#3262

Sergio Rodríguez López-Ros

#78122

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Sergio Rodríguez López-Ros is a Spanish academic and diplomat. He serves as the current Pro-Rector of the Universitat Abat Oliba CEU of Barcelona. Education Rodríguez was born in Barcelona to a Portuguese family that had settled in Spain since the 18th century. He was educated at the Salesian College of Sarrià, before graduating in Communication at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and taking a specialized course at the Menéndez Pelayo International University.

#3263

Meir Shahar

#50508

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Meir Shahar is the Shaul Eisenberg Chair for East Asian Affairs at Tel Aviv University. Academic career Meir Shahar attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and then studied Chinese in Taipei. He obtained a PhD in Asian languages and civilizations at Harvard University in 1992.His research interests include the interplay of Chinese religion and Chinese literature, Chinese martial-arts history, Chinese esoteric Buddhism, and the impact of Indian mythology of the Chinese pantheon of divinities.

#3264

Benjamin F. Payton

#89012

Overall Influence

1932 - 2016 (84 years)

Benjamin F. Payton was an African-American academic administrator. He served as the president of two historically black universities: Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina from 1967 to 1972 and Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama from 1981 to 2010.

#3265

Odd-Bjørn Fure

#110969

Overall Influence

1942 - 2022 (80 years)

Odd-Bjørn Fure was a Norwegian historian and political scientist. He was born at Stadlandet, and was a brother of politician Julius Fure . His main studies were in comparative politics, but he switched field with a 1983 doctoral thesis on the history of the Norwegian labour movement between 1918 and 1920. He had not previously studied history.

#3266

Toktamış Ateş

#83577

Overall Influence

1944 - 2013 (69 years)

Toktamış Ateş was a Turkish academician, political commentator, columnist and writer. He was professor of political sciences at Istanbul University. Biography Toktamış Ateş was born in Istanbul. After graduating from St. George's Austrian Secondary School and Vefa High School, he was admitted to Istanbul University Faculty of Economics and received his BA degree in 1967.

#3267

Charles Arthur Moser

#128518

Overall Influence

1935 - 2006 (71 years)

Charles Arthur Moser was an American literary critic and political activist. As a literary critic he is known for his interests in Russian and Bulgarian literatures and cultures. His political views are described as conservative.

#3268

Raia Prokhovnik

#118137

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Raia Prokhovnik , is Reader in Politics at the Open University's Faculty of Social Sciences, for their Department of Politics and International Studies, and founding editor of the journal Contemporary Political Theory. She is the chair of the OU's interdisciplinary politics module, Living political ideas, and contributed to other modules including Power, dissent, equality: understanding contemporary politics.

#3269

Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

#123965

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Martin Seeleib-Kaiser is a European social scientist. He studied Political Science, American Studies and Public Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, from where he also received his PhD in political science. Since 2017, he has been a professor of comparative public policy at the Institute of Political Science of the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, in Tübingen, Germany. He was previously a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, and Barnett Professor of Comparative Social Policy and Politics at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention of the University of Oxford. He had ea...

#3270

Andreas Fulda

#172365

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Andreas Martin Fulda is a German political scientist, sinologist, sociologist, and an expert on China–EU relations. He is currently an associate professor of politics at the University of Nottingham and a senior fellow at the University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute and China Policy Institute of this university. Fulda is a foreign affair advisor of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China . He had lived and worked in Mainland China and Taiwan as a staff of the China Association for NGO Cooperation for eight years. Fulda frequently comments on current Chinese affairs in the media and he is a fierce critic of the Chinese Communist Party .

#3271

Maria João Rodrigues

#129852

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Maria João Rodrigues GOIH is a Portuguese academic and politician who served as Member of the European Parliament and Vice-President of the Group of the Socialists and Democrats from 2014 until 2019. Since 2017 she is also President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies , succeeding Italian politician Massimo d'Alema.

#3272

Aymeric Chauprade

#110545

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Aymeric Chauprade is a French writer, political scientist and politician. He left the National Front on 9 November 2015, mostly for "moral and political" principles, to found Les Français Libres. A student and disciple of François Thual, he is an advocate of realpolitik. He was elected to the European Parliament from the National Front for the Île-de-France constituency in the 2014 European Parliament election.

#3273

Nils Hasselmo

#71594

Overall Influence

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Nils Hasselmo was the thirteenth president of the University of Minnesota, serving from 1988 to 1997. He went on to become the president of the Association of American Universities from 1998 to 2006.

#3274

Jack B. Kubisch

#134730

Overall Influence

1921 - 2007 (86 years)

Jack Bloom Kubisch was a United States diplomat. Biography Jack B. Kubisch was born in Hannibal, Missouri on November 5, 1921. He was educated at Central Methodist University and then the University of Missouri, from which he received an A.B. in 1942. Kubisch enlisted in the United States Navy while he was at college, and upon graduation was commissioned as an Ensign. He was initially assigned to serve as an Instructor at the University of Notre Dame. He married Constance Rippe of South Bend, Indiana in 1944. In 1944–45, he served on the USS New York and later the USS Guam . In this ca...

#3275

Charles J. Nelson

#171808

Overall Influence

1921 - 2011 (90 years)

Charles Joseph Nelson was an American Ambassador, academic and USAID administrator. Nelson graduated from Lincoln University in 1942 and served in the US Army in Europe during World War II. After his Army service, he received a master's degree in public administration from New York University in 1948.

#3276

Paul Van Riper

#169669

Overall Influence

1916 - 2014 (98 years)

Paul P. Van Riper was an American political scientist and professor emeritus of political science at Texas A&M University's Department of Political Science and the George Bush School of Government and Public Service. The American Society for Public Administration honored Van Riper with the presentation of an annual award in his name for scholars who have made a significant contribution through his or her body of work to bridging the world of public administration scholarship and practice.

#3277

Jean François Billeter

#81092

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Jean François Billeter Chinese name : 毕来德 / 畢來德 Bì Láidé, born 1939 in Basel, Switzerland; is a Swiss sinologist and honorary professor of the University of Geneva, where he created the sinology department in 1987. After directing it for twelve years, he retired in 1999 to spend more time writing.

#3278

Alexander Stubb

#125169

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb is a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015. He rose to politics as a researcher specialized in the affairs of the European Union and was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 as a member of the National Coalition Party. In 2008, Stubb was appointed as Minister for Foreign Affairs following a scandal surrounding his predecessor, Ilkka Kanerva. In 2011 Stubb stood for election to the Finnish Parliament for the first time and was elected MP with the second highest vote count in the election, which led to Stubb becoming the Min...

#3279

Robert F. Chandler

#91324

Overall Influence

1907 - 1999 (92 years)

Robert Flint Chandler Jr. was an American horticulturalist. He obtained a degree in Horticulture from the University of Maine in 1929, and his Ph.D. in Pomology from the University of Maryland in 1934. He first taught at Cornell University and went on to become the Dean of the College of Agriculture, and then the ninth President, of the University of New Hampshire.

#3280

Shannon C. Stimson

#78943

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Shannon C. Stimson is an American political theorist and historian of ideas, whose more recent work and teaching spans the economic and political thought of the early modern period through the nineteenth century. She is the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Government department at Georgetown University. Her academic posts have included appointments at Harvard University , UC Berkeley , the Fulbright Professorship in the United Kingdom, the Christensen Fellowship of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, the John K. Castle Chair in Ethics, Politics and Economics at Yale University and she has been a Distinguished Academic Visitor at Queens' College, Cambridge on two occasions.

#3281

Kwame Dixon

#175331

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Kwame Dixon is a political scientist and human rights activist who specializes on race in the Americas. His field of interest is in African descendant people living in Latin America, North America and South America. He is a professor of Afro-Latino Studies, Race, Democracy and Human Rights for Afro-Latin Americans. He currently works at Howard University as a professor in the department of African American Studies. He contributes articles to The Hemispheric Institute E-misférica, He is also a consultant for NGO's like Consultant – Club of Madrid Expert: African Women's Leadership Project.

#3282

Shaul Mishal

#155348

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Shaul Mishal is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. Mishal is Head of the Middle Eastern studies Program at IDC Herzliya, researcher of Arab and Palestinian politics who founded and directed the Center for the Study of Arab Society in Israel. Mishal authored and co-authored several books and numerous articles in subjects related to Arab and Islamic political cultures and Palestinian politics.

#3283

David Michael San Juan

#125003

Overall Influence

David Michael M. San Juan is a Filipino Marxist writer, researcher, activist, and professor. He was chosen Mananaysay ng Taon in 2009 and Makata ng Taon in 2010 by the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino .

#3284

David P. Houghton

#93772

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

David Patrick Houghton is a Senior Fellow/Associate at LSE IDEAS and a retired Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College. Education and early career Houghton was born and raised in St. Helens and Warrington in the northwest of England, but he is of mostly Irish and Italian descent. He received a B.A with Honours in politics from the University of Sheffield in 1989. He also received an M.A. in political science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992, and a Ph.D. from the same school in 1996 with a thesis on "The Role of Analogical Reasoning in Foreign and Domestic P...

#3285

Joseph Becelia

#175400

Overall Influence

Joseph Becelia was an American chargé d'affaires of the United States to Costa Rica from 1993 to 1994. Becelia is an adjunct professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at the George Mason University.

#3286

Peter Kerr

#170441

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Peter Kerr is a Scottish political scientist. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham and a specialist in British politics, political sociology, state theory and theories of social and political change. He specialises and teaches in the area of British politics, with a particular focus on governmental strategies, UK political parties, political leadership and ideology in the UK and, changes and continuities in British political institutions and public policy since 1945.

#3287

Charles E. Young

Charles E. Young

#107337

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Charles Edward Young , nicknamed Chuck Young, was an American university administrator and professor. A native of California, Young led the University of California, Los Angeles for 29 years as chancellor and the University of Florida for more than four years as president.

#3288

Will H. Moore

#168277

Overall Influence

1962 - 2017 (55 years)

Will H. Moore was an American political scientist and professor of political science at Arizona State University. Previously, he was the Alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Florida State University, and he had been on the faculties of the University of Colorado Boulder and University of California–Riverside.

#3289

Ian Bremmer

#127766

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Ian Arthur Bremmer is an American political scientist, author, and entrepreneur focused on global political risk. He is the founder and president of Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm. He is also a founder of GZERO Media, a digital media firm.

#3290

Ursula Apitzsch

#126004

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Ursula Apitzsch is a German political scientist and sociologist. Since 1993, she has been Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Frankfurt. Her research fields are cultural analysis, biographical research, migration, ethnicity and gender.

#3291

John Swan

#122302

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Sir John William David Swan is a former Bermudian political figure. A real estate developer, a political luminary and a philanthropist, Swan served as Premier of Bermuda from 1982 to 1995. Swan built his reputation through property development.

#3292

Hannah Arendt

#175693

Overall Influence

#3293

Markus Ritter

#117407

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Markus Ritter is a German art historian and scholar in Oriental Studies specializing on History of Islamic Art. Since 2012 he works as a tenured professor at the Department of Art History of the University of Vienna in Austria.

#3294

Xu Datong

#108717

Overall Influence

1928 - 2019 (91 years)

Xu Datong was a Chinese political scientist and legal scholar, considered one of China's "Five Elders" of political science. He was a distinguished professor at Tianjin Normal University. Biography Xu was born on 16 September 1928 in Tianjin, Republic of China. He began his studies at North China University in January 1949, and later taught in the departments of law and political science at the university. In 1973, he became a faculty member of Peking University. In 1978, he returned to his hometown to teach at Tianjin Normal University.

#3295

Frank Peers

#166772

Overall Influence

1918 - 2016 (98 years)

Frank Wayne Peers was a Canadian political scientist and historian. He is a former Director of Information Programming at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who later taught at the University of Toronto in the Department of Political Economy. He is the author of two books and many articles about the politics of broadcasting in Canada.

#3296

Jan Stanisław Bury

Jan Stanisław Bury

#115754

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Jan Stanisław Bury is a Polish political scientist and diplomat, between 2018 and 2022 he served as an ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Life Education Jan Stanisław Bury was born in 1977. In 2002 he has earned his master's degree from the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Oriental Studies. In 2006 he defended there his Ph.D. thesis on criminal procedure in Medieval Arabic literature. He was also educated at the universities in Kuwait, Tunis, Oxford, and Nijmegen.

#3297

Jeff Taylor

#121440

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Jeffrey Taylor is an American political scientist, politician, and a Republican Party member of the Iowa Senate from District 2 since January 11, 2021. Early life and career Taylor is from Spencer, Iowa. He attended Northwestern College before completing a master's degree from the University of Iowa and a master's and doctorate from the University of Missouri. As a scholar, he was an early exponent of the horseshoe theory of political ideology. Taylor taught at Dordt University for eight years prior to running for public office in 2020. Taylor was also a political analyst for KCAU-TV.

#3298

Claire Robinson

#131608

Overall Influence

Claire Robinson is a New Zealand political communications academic. As of 2018, she is a full professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor at the Massey University. Academic career After a 2006 PhD titled 'Advertising and the market orientation of political parties contesting the 1999 and 2002 New Zealand general election campaigns' at the Massey University, Robinson joined the staff, rising to full professor.

#3299

Nísia Trindade

#100367

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Nísia Trindade Lima is a Brazilian social scientist, sociologist, researcher and university professor who has been serving as Minister of Health of Brazil since 2023. She served as chairwoman of Oswaldo Cruz Foundation from 2017 to 2023.

#3300

Richard Funkhouser

#97736

Overall Influence

1917 - 2008 (91 years)

Richard Edgar Funkhouser was an American diplomat and geologist, specializing in oil. He served as United States Ambassador to Gabon. Early years Born in Trenton, New Jersey, he was the son of noted psychiatrist Dr. Edgar Bright Funkhouser and Evelyn Hayes. He attended Taft School before entering Princeton University, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and Sigma Xi, the Honorary Scientific Research Association. He graduated from Princeton with a bachelor's degree in geology in 1939 after completing a senior thesis, titled "Magnetic susceptibility of sedimentary minerals", under the supervision of Harry H.

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