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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#3301

Shireen Lateef

#124093

Overall Influence

Shireen Rexina Lateef was a Fijian women's rights activist, known for her work on gender equality at the Asian Development Bank. Biography Shireen Lateef was born in Fiji and was of Indo-Fijian descent. After studying at St. Joseph's Secondary School in Fiji, she traveled to Australia to pursue higher education. She attended Monash University, graduating with a Ph.D. in social anthropology and education, which included significant fieldwork among Indo-Fijian women in the Fijian capital, Suva. She then spent nine years as a lecturer at the University of Melbourne.

#3302

Richard J. Aldrich

#99679

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Richard James Aldrich is a British political scientist and a historian of espionage who has written intensively about intelligence and security communities. Life Since September 2007, he has been a professor of International Security at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. He was a professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham and was co-editor of the journal Intelligence and National Security for eight years. In 1990 Aldrich gained his PhD from Corpus Christie College, University of Cambridge.

#3303

Kathi Lynn Austin

Kathi Lynn Austin

#175387

Overall Influence

Kathi Lynn Austin is an expert on arms trafficking, peace and security, and human rights. She has investigated the illegal trade in weapons, illicit trafficking operations, illegal resource exploitation and terrorism for over 20 years, and has documented conflicts in Africa, Latin America, East and Central Europe, and South Asia.

#3304

Keith Hamm

#94817

Overall Influence

Keith Edward Hamm is an American political scientist and Edwards Professor of political science at Rice University. He is an expert on state legislatures. His research focuses on legislative behavior, campaign finance, interest groups, state politics and urban politics.

#3305

Federico Gil

#117521

Overall Influence

1915 - 2000 (85 years)

Federico Guillermo Gil was a political scientist and founder and president of the Latin American Studies Association and a recipient of its Kalman Silvert Award for outstanding lifetime service to Latin American studies.

#3306

Karin Bäckstrand

#126541

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Karin Bäckstrand is professor of political science at Stockholm University, Sweden, who has written extensively on climate and environmental governance and advises the ICSU Earth System Governance project. She is a member of the Swedish Climate Policy Council in Sweden.

#3307

Svennik Høyer

#104670

Overall Influence

1931 - 2017 (86 years)

Svennik Høyer was a Norwegian political scientist. He was born in Bærum. He graduated as cand.mag. in political science from the University of Oslo in 1959, and as dr.philos. in 1974. In 1985 he was appointed professor at the Institute for media research at the University of Oslo. His research interests included aspects such as the structural development of the press, interaction between press and politics, development of the journalist profession and journalism, and intersections between technology and society.

#3308

Güneş Murat Tezcür

#134885

Overall Influence

Güneş Murat Tezcür , a professor of Political Science, is the Director of School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University . He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2005. Previously, he held the Jalal Talabani Endowed Chair at the University of Central Florida. He also established The Kurdish Political Studies Program at UCF, the first and only academic entity in North America dedicated to the study of Kurdish issues, in 2015. His research revolves around Middle East politics with a specific focus on political violence, Islamic politics, and democratization in Iran and Turkey.

#3309

Dinesh Wadiwel

#71380

Overall Influence

Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel is an Australian social and political theorist who is presently an associate professor in Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Sydney. His work addresses critical animal studies, the rights of disabled people, and theoretical perspectives on violence.

#3310

James F. Creagan

#176114

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

James Francis Creagan is a United States diplomat. From 1996 to 1999, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Honduras. Previously, he had served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy to the Holy See and Italy, the Consul General in São Paulo, Brazil and the Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Brasília. Although he retired broadly from public service in 1999, he stepped in briefly in 2009 in Bolivia as special Chargé d'Affaires.

#3311

Paul Thompson

#64605

Overall Influence

1931 - 2007 (76 years)

Paul Mulligan Thompson was a British sinologist and pioneer in the field of Chinese computer applications. Biography Paul Thompson was born at Xingtai in Hebei province, China, where his Northern Irish parents worked as missionaries with the China Inland Mission. He attended the Chefoo School, a Christian boarding school at Yantai in Shandong province, until November 1942 when the staff and students were interned at the Temple Hill Japanese Internment Camp. A few months later, in the summer of 1943, Thompson and his family were moved to the Weixian Internment Camp in Shandong , where they remained until liberated by American paratroopers in 1945.

#3312

Emilian Kavalski

#103439

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Emilian Raychev Kavalski is a Bulgarian political scientist and the NAWA Chair Professor at the Complex Systems Lab in the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He is the book series editor for Routledge’s Rethinking Asia and International Relations series, and an Editor of the journal Asian Studies Review. Prior to joining the Jagiellonian University in September 2021, he was the Li Dak-Sum Chair Professor in China-Eurasia Relations and International Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China . In 2006, he completed his PhD in International Relations at the Loughborough University.

#3313

Thomas Metzger

#126724

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Thomas A. Metzger is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is the son of the German philosopher Arnold Metzger . He specializes in the intellectual and institutional history of China, studying both the premodern and modern periods. His current research focuses on contemporary China's moral-political discourse and its historical roots, dealing with both China and Taiwan. He also has written on U.S.–China policy issues and has lectured widely in English and Chinese in the United States, Europe, Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong.

#3314

Leighton Andrews

#113544

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Leighton Andrews is an academic and former Welsh Labour politician. He was the National Assembly for Wales member for Rhondda from 2003 until 2016. He was Minister for Children, Education & Lifelong Learning from 2009 to 2011, then Minister for Education and Skills in the Welsh Government until his resignation on 25 June 2013 after an alleged conflict between his own departmental policy and his active campaigning to save a school in his constituency. In September 2014 he returned to the government as Minister for Public Services.

#3315

Steffen Schmidt

#131941

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Steffen Walter Schmidt is a Colombian-born political scientist. Schmidt was born in Colombia and is of German-Jewish descent. He attended Rollins College and earned a doctorate in public law and government from Columbia University. He taught at Southampton College prior to joining the faculty of Iowa State University in 1970. He became a member of Phi Kappa Phi in 1997, was appointed director of international programs for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2004, and was named inaugural Lucken Professor in Political Science in 2017. Dr. Schmidt has written a number of textbooks regarding the American Government and politics that are used in various colleges in the United States.

#3316

Tim Hayward

#145512

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Tim Hayward is Professor of Environmental Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and director of the university's Just World Institute, a body set up to "foster interdisciplinary research into the global challenges facing the international order, with particular attention to issues of ethics and justice". Between 1995 and 2017, Hayward published four books on ecological values, human rights and political theory. Hayward has recently received coverage in the mainstream press for his alleged "propaganda" in defense of Putin's Russia and Bashar Assad's Syrian regime.

#3317

Fabrizio Gilardi

#174349

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Fabrizio Gilardi is a Swiss political scientist and professor of policy analysis at the University of Zurich. He is known for his works on delegation theory, research design and policy diffusion processes. He is a former editor of the Journal of Public Policy and DeFacto .

#3318

Jane Suiter

#65757

Overall Influence

Jane Suiter is an Irish political scientist, professor and director of Dublin City University's Institute for Future Media, Democracy, and Society and research lead of Ireland's Constitutional Convention and the Citizens' Assembly. She is the co-author or co-editor of three academic books and one guide book, and over 40 journal articles. In December 2020, she was named "Researcher of the Year" by the Irish Research Council and in February 2021, she was promoted to the position of professor by DCU.

#3319

Barry Burden

#149894

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Barry C. Burden is an American political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he is also the Lyons Family Chair in Electoral Politics and director of the Elections Research Center. Before joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2006, he taught at Louisiana State University and Harvard University.

#3320

Dennis C. Pirages

#135747

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Dennis Clark Pirages is an American political scientist, environmentalist and former Harrison Professor of International Environmental Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, known for his work on the environment and sustainability questions.

#3321

Donald J. Farish

Donald J. Farish

#30460

Overall Influence

1942 - 2018 (76 years)

Donald J. Farish was a Canadian American biologist and zoologist who served as the 10th president of Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. He was president of Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey from 1998 to 2011.

#3322

Vesla Weaver

#150870

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Vesla Mae Weaver is an American political scientist and author. She is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of political science and sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Early life and education Weaver was born in 1979. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia before enrolling in Harvard University for her PhD.

#3323

John Lawrence

#90801

Overall Influence

1915 - 2002 (87 years)

John Gordon Michael Lawrence was a leading far-left activist in a wide variety of groups in Britain. Early life Born in Sandhurst, Berkshire, Lawrence entered the British Army at the age of fourteen, before discovering his skill as a musician. He left the Army and toured the country in the Great Depression, seeing the suffering endured by people and joining first the unemployed workers' movement, then in 1937 the Communist Party of Great Britain . His opposition to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact led him to leave the CPGB and join instead the Trotskyist Revolutionary Workers League in 1939.

#3324

David McNally

#128020

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

David McNally is an activist and the NEH Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston. He was previously a professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto, Ontario, and was chair of the university's Department of Political Science for several years. He is the author of many books and scholarly articles and the winner of the 2012 Deutscher Memorial Award and the 2012 Paul Sweezy Award.

#3325

Emilie M. Hafner-Burton

#168550

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Emilie M. Hafner-Burton is a professor at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy and director of the School’s Laboratory on International Law and Regulation. She is the author of the book "Making Human Rights a Reality."

#3326

Stephen Chan

#115304

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Stephen Chan is an author and Professor of World Politics at SOAS, University of London. He was appointed an OBE for "services to Africa and higher education" in 2010. He has published number of books on international relations and articles and reviews in the academic and specialist press, as well as journalistic feature articles.

#3327

Pradip Basu

#140375

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Pradip Basu is an Indian political scientist. He is currently a professor of political science at the Presidency University, Kolkata. Career He was a Research Scholar at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta from 1984 to 1985, and then a Doctoral Teacher Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research from 1988 to 1991. He earned his Ph.D. under the supervision of Partha Chatterjee on inner-party ideological struggles leading to Naxalism. He taught at the University of Kalyani, before moving on to teach at the Scottish Church College, later as a Guest Faculty in Political Science at the University of Calcutta.

#3328

Susan Close

#112204

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Susan Elizabeth Close is an Australian politician, who is currently the Deputy Premier of South Australia since March 2022. She also holds the ministerial portfolios of Minister for Climate, Environment and Water, Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science and Minister for Defence and Space Industries while as Deputy Premier.

#3329

Yuen Foong Khong

#175404

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Yuen Foong Khong is the Li Ka Shing Professor of Political Science at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He was previously Professor of International Relations at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. A cited expert whose highest cited paper is Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965 at 894 times, according to GoogleScholar. Khong' research interests are in United States foreign policy, international relations theory, the internati...

#3330

Fukui Fumimasa

#121168

Overall Influence

1934 - 2017 (83 years)

Fukui Fumimasa was a Japanese Buddhist scholar-monk, Sinology scholar and Tendai monk; he was a monk in the highest grade. He was the chief monk at Yuishinin Temple, a temple within Nikkozan Rinnō-ji Temple located at Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture and was professor emeritus at Waseda University. His father was Fukui Kōjun, and his younger brother was Fukui Shigemasa. Both father and brother were Asian Studies scholars and Tendai Buddhist monks.

#3331

J. Reuben Clark III

#163098

Overall Influence

1908 - 1992 (84 years)

J. Reuben Clark III was a professor of classical languages and also French at Brigham Young University. At various times he served as head of the Asian and Classical Languages Department and of the Classical and Biblical Languages Department at that university.

#3332

Yves Hervouet

#100312

Overall Influence

1921 - 1999 (78 years)

Yves Hervouet was a French sinologist, specializing in classical Chinese literature. He was professor emeritus at the Paris Diderot University as well as an appointed Legion of Honour officer.

#3333

Carl Bode

#83065

Overall Influence

1911 - 1993 (82 years)

Carl Bode was an author, poet, professor of English and American Studies at the University of Maryland, and officer of several literary and cultural organizations. He wrote and edited over 30 books, including The American Lyceum, Antebellum Culture, Mencken, the first full biography to be published after H.L. Mencken's death, as well as Maryland, a 350-year history of the state. Bode edited The Collective Poems of Henry Thoreau, The Best of Thoreau's Journals, and The Portable Emerson among others.

#3334

John Jay Iselin

#96357

Overall Influence

1933 - 2008 (75 years)

John Jay Iselin was a magazine and television journalist, editor, and publisher. He served as president of WNET, president of the Cooper Union, and president of the Marconi Foundation at Columbia University.

#3335

Anthony Gill

#79806

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Anthony James Gill is an American political scientist and adjunct professor of sociology at the University of Washington; he is a non-resident scholar at the Baylor University Institute for the Study of Religion. Gill specializes in political economy, comparative politics and religion. He obtained his PhD and MA from the University of California, Los Angeles.

#3336

Desimir Jevtić

#65992

Overall Influence

1938 - 2017 (79 years)

Desimir Jevtić was a Yugoslav and Serbian mechanical engineer, university professor, and politician who served as prime minister of Serbia from 1986 to 1989. Biography Jevtić was born on 16 December 1938 in Oparić, which at the time was a part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He graduated in 1962 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Belgrade, while he completed his postgraduate studies in 1978 and earned his PhD in the field of technical sciences.

#3337

Michael Jones-Correa

#156044

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Michael Andrew Jones-Correa is President's Distinguished Professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research centers on the topics of immigrant political incorporation and ethnic and racial relations in the United States, often writing about political behavior in the context of institutional structures.

#3338

Susan Bordo

#176885

Overall Influence

#3339

Barry Gustafson

#152412

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Barry Selwyn Gustafson is a New Zealand political scientist and historian, and a leading political biographer. He served for nearly four decades as professor of political studies at the University of Auckland, and as Acting Director of the New Zealand Asia Institute from 2004 to 2006. He has contested various general electionss, first for the Labour Party and later for the National Party, coming second each time.

#3340

Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin

#35992

Overall Influence

1910 - 2012 (102 years)

Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin was a Belgian linguist, philologist, and orientalist who was professor at the University of Liège and specialized in ancient Iran. Duchesne-Guillemin began his teaching career with the untimely death of his collaborator and mentor at the University of Liège, Auguste Bricteux, in 1937, becoming a professor in 1943 and a full professor in 1964.

#3341

John Brady Kiesling

#77391

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

John Brady Kiesling is a former U.S. diplomat and the author of Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower and the ToposText classics/archaeology mobile application. Diplomat An archaeologist/ancient historian by training, Kiesling entered the foreign service in 1983. He supported the multilateralist foreign policy of former President George H. W. Bush and the limited purposes of the 1991 Gulf War.

#3342

Zheng Yongnian

#158275

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Zheng Yongnian is a Chinese political scientist and political commentator who has studied and written on contemporary China and especially on Chinese politics. Zheng joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen in September 2020 and was appointed Director of the Advanced Institute of Global and Contemporary China Studies. He was a professor and director of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore since 2008 until his resignation in 2020 amid alleged incidents of sexual misconduct.

#3343

Khazar Ibrahim

#87999

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Khazar Ibrahim is the appointed ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United States of America. Education Khazar Ibrahim received a master’s degree in international relations from Baku State University and a master’s degree in security studies from Georgetown University. He attended a senior course at the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2000-2001. He taught the “Foreign Policy of Azerbaijan” class and the “Post-Soviet Azerbaijan politics” seminar at Khazar University in Baku.

#3344

Michael Lamb

#126019

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Michael Lamb is an American politician and attorney who has served as Controller of the City of Pittsburgh since 2008 and was most recently a candidate for auditor general. Early life and education In 1962, he was born to politician Thomas F. Lamb and Barbara Joyce. In high school, he was on the student council and was voted as most active. Lamb first attended Pennsylvania State University where during the 1984 presidential election he coordinated John Glenn's presidential campaign at the college level and eventually graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1984. Lamb earned a Juris Doctor from ...

#3345

Wainer Lusoli

#141318

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Wainer Lusoli is an Italian academic, trained as a political scientist and policy analyst. He has worked on policy areas including science policy, open science, science in society, political participation, electronic democracy, digital identity, social computing and cloud computing.

#3346

Hans-Joachim Hoppe

#106393

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Hans-Joachim Hoppe is a German political scientist and an expert on Russia and East European affairs. Studies He has finished his studies of Russian and East European history, politics and languages with a doctor’s thesis on “German-Bulgarian Relations During the Second World War”. The book has been published in 1979 by the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich Later he took part in projects of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich, and Institute for Research of Antisemitism, director Wolfgang Benz, Berlin, about the Holocaust, especially the fate of Bulgarian Jews and the Jews in Bulgarian...

#3347

Aaron Belkin

#158602

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Aaron Belkin is a political scientist, researcher and professor. He currently teaches political science at San Francisco State University and is the director of the Palm Center, a think tank that commissions and disseminates research on gender, sexuality and the military.

#3348

Judith Goldstein

#172230

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Judith L. Goldstein is an American political scientist. She is the Janet M. Peck Professor of International Communication at Stanford University. She studies international political economy, with a particular focus on international trade policy.

#3349

Benjamin Smith

#148968

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Benjamin Smith is a political scientist and Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida. His research focuses on the developing world, with a particular focus on resource wealth and politics, ethnic conflict, and regimes and regime change.

#3350

Emily Beausoleil

#158521

Overall Influence

Emily Beausoleil is a Canadian political theorist and lecturer of political science at the Victoria University of Wellington. She is the co-editor of the academic journal Democratic Theory along with Jean-Paul Gagnon.

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