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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#3451

Douglas Hodgkin

#59940

Overall Influence

Douglas Irving Hodgkin is an American political scientist and author. He is a professor emeritus of politics at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Biography Hodgkin was born in Lewiston, Maine. Hodgkin received his B.A. from Yale University and his M.A. and Ph.D from Duke University. Hodgkin taught for 34 years at Bates, retired in 2000 at the age of 61. He remains an emeritus professor at Bates.

#3452

Calvin Ball, III

Calvin Ball, III

#126959

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Calvin Bernard Ball III is an American politician who serves as the county executive of Howard County, Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the first African-American to hold this office. He previously served as a member of the Howard County Council from the 2nd district from 2006 to 2018.

#3453

Orit Kedar

#178763

Overall Influence

Orit Kedar is an Israeli political scientist. She is a professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is also affiliated with the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality. She specializes in electoral politics, electoral systems and party systems, and comparative vote choice under different political systems.

#3454

Jane Millar

#169479

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Jane Isobel Millar, OBE, FBA, FAcSS is Professor of Social Policy and was previously the Pro-Vice Chancellor Research, University of Bath. Her research focuses on policy, families, and social security. She is a member of the Council of the Academy of Social Sciences.

#3455

Richard J. Richardson

#169549

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Richard J. "Dick" Richardson is an American former political scientist, holding the Burton Craig Professorship at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Education Born in Missouri, Dick Richardson received his undergraduate degree from Arkansas’ Harding College in 1957 and his graduate degrees in political science from Tulane University

#3456

Gareth Stansfield

#139242

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Gareth Robert Vincent Stansfield is a British academic, currently Professor of Middle East Studies and Al-Qasimi Chair of Arab Gulf Studies at Exeter University. Biography Stansfield was educated at Hulme Grammar School, followed by Durham University, where he read Geography and was awarded the W A Moyes Prize. He went on to complete an MA in Middle East Politics and a PhD at the same institution. He joined Exeter as a Research Fellow in 2002.

#3457

Geoffrey Edwards

#181296

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Geoffrey Edwards is a British political scientist specialising in the foreign and security policies of the European Union. A fellow and a Graduate Tutor of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Edwards is also Reader in European Studies at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge and holds a Jean Monnet chair as Director of European Studies at the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence at the same university.

#3458

Todd Landman

#181355

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Todd Landman is a professor of political science and Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Nottingham. He is also an academic magician, specializing in mentalism, a member of The Magic Circle, and Visiting Professor of Performance Magic at the University of Huddersfield.

#3459

Alyson Cole

#103880

Overall Influence

Alyson M. Cole is an American political scientist. She is a professor of Political Science, Women's and Gender Studies, and American Studies at Queens College, City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she has also served as the Executive Officer of the political science program. Cole studies political philosophy and American culture, and has published works on the politics of victimhood and vulnerability in America, the politics of gender equality, and the nature of capitalism as a way of life.

#3460

Eric D. Patterson

#174002

Overall Influence

Eric D. Patterson is an American political scientist whose work focuses on international relations, just war theory, and the intersection of religion and public policy. His advanced degrees are from the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Wales at Aberystwyth. He serves as President of the Religious Freedom Institute in Washington, DC. Previously he was Dean and Professor of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University and before that he worked at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs. His government experience includes service as an Air National Guard officer, the White House Fellowship, and time as a William C.

#3461

Arthur Stein

#139525

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Arthur Asher Stein is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Specialising in issues such as ethnic conflict, terrorism, economic relations, and global governance, Stein has served on the editorial boards of International Organization, the American Journal of Political Science, and International Interactions and was a member of the Statewide Steering Committee for the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation. He is currently an Editor of the American Political Science Review.

#3462

Gary Olson

#31467

Overall Influence

Gary L. Olson is professor emeritus of political science at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. He is the author of: Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain; How the World Works; U.S. Foreign Policy and the Third World Peasant; and The Other Europe. He has written over 75 published articles and op-eds, many for ZNet. His research areas include international political economy, identity politics and global labor issues. During the 1980s, he sponsored several trips to the Soviet Union with his students from Moravian College.

#3463

Tim Carroll

#96241

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Timothy E. Carroll is a Canadian politician and educator. He represented 5th Queens in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1986 to 1996 as a Liberal. Carroll was born in 1951 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He graduated from the University of Prince Edward Island with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, and the University of Saskatchewan with a Masters of Business Administration degree. He married Kathy Jenkins in 1978. In his early career, he was manager of the Ontario Vegetable Board for five years, worked as a marketing consultant in Western Canada and P.E.I., and was an assistant professor at St.

#3464

Patrick Troy

#175105

Overall Influence

1936 - 2018 (82 years)

Patrick Nicol Troy was an Australian academic who served as Vale Professor Emeritus at Australian National University. He was born in Geraldton, Western Australia, the eldest son of Patrick Laurence Troy and Mabel Nielson, who had married in the previous year.

#3465

Miriam A. Golden

#179626

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Miriam A. Golden is a political scientist and the Peter Mair Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute. Her research focuses on the selection, responsiveness, and accountability of politicians in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America.

#3466

Kinch Hoekstra

#79568

Overall Influence

Kinch J. Hoekstra is an American legal scholar and academic whose work concerns the history of political, moral, and legal thought. He is Chancellor's Professor of Political Science and Law and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also Faculty Director of the Kadish Center for Morality, Law and Public Affairs at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Hoekstra has held visiting positions, lectureships, and fellowships at the University of Oxford, Princeton University, Boston University, and the Institute for Advanced Study.

#3467

Michael Saward

#175805

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Michael Saward , is an Australian and British professor of politics and international studies at the University of Warwick, He was formerly Reader in Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Professor and Head of Department in politics and international studies at the Open University.

#3468

Lawrence Goodwyn

#107960

Overall Influence

1928 - 2013 (85 years)

Lawrence Corbett Goodwyn was an American journalist and political theorist known for his study of American populism. He served as a professor at Duke University from 1971 to 2003. Goodwyn was best known for writing Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America, a book which chronicles the origins and rise of the People's Party. The book was nominated for the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1977, and it achieved finalist status. An abridged version of Democratic Promise, titled The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America, was published in 1978. The Populis...

#3469

Patrick F. Leahy

#65585

Overall Influence

Patrick F. Leahy is an American academic administrator serving as the 10th president of Monmouth University. He previously served as the sixth president of Wilkes University from 2012 to 2019. Early life and education Leahy is a native of Towson, Maryland. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Georgetown University, dual master's degrees in business administration and labor relations from Cornell University, and a Doctor of Education from the University of Pennsylvania.

#3470

Hongbin Li

#181763

Overall Influence

#3471

Patrick Utomi

#170945

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Patrick Okedinachi Utomi is a Nigerian professor of political economy and management expert. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria and a former presidential candidate. He is the founder of Centre for Value in Leadership and the African Democratic Congress. He is a professor at Lagos Business School, and has served in senior positions in government, as an adviser to the president of Nigeria, the private sector, as Chief Operating Officer of Volkswagen Nigeria.

#3472

Michael Keating

#163139

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Michael Keating is an Irish former politician. Early life Keating was born in Dublin in 1946. He was educated at the Christian Brothers O'Connell School, University College Dublin, and St. Patrick's College in Maynooth where he received a Bachelor of Arts. He worked as a secondary school teacher before becoming involved in politics.

#3473

Claudia Romo Edelman

Claudia Romo Edelman

#65806

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Claudia Romo Edelman is a Mexican-Swiss public servant, speaker and media contributor, and an activist for equity, diversity and inclusion. Claudia has more than 25 years of experience leading marketing and advocacy for global organizations including UNICEF, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , the United Nations and the World Economic Forum. She has launched hundreds of successful campaigns and initiatives including the SDG Lions, Product , and the Sustainable Development Goals. She is the co-host of "Global GoalsCast", a po...

#3474

Nils Daulaire

#61779

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Nils Daulaire is an American physician and the former assistant secretary for global affairs at the United States Department of Health and Human Services . Daulaire has been at HHS since 2010, and became assistant secretary in December 2012. He also served as the U.S. Representative on the World Health Organization’s executive board, a post he was nominated to by President Barack Obama.

#3475

Barbara Mittler

Barbara Mittler

#91479

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Barbara Mittler is a German sinologist. She is co-director of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context". Early life and education Barbara Mittler was born 15 February 1968, in Hagen, West Germany. She is the daughter of flautist Uta Mittler and librarian Elmar Mittler. Mittler received her B.A. and M.A. from Oxford and her Ph.D. from Heidelberg University. She also studied Chinese at the Mandarin Training Center in Taiwan.

#3476

Michael Mandelbaum

#182078

Overall Influence

#3477

Alfred C. Aman Jr.

#119571

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Alfred C. Aman Jr. is a professor of administrative law, author and the former Dean of Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington and Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He stepped down as Dean of Suffolk in 2009 to return to Indiana University as the Roscoe C. O'Byrne Professor of Law.

#3478

Dieter Roth

#176406

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Dieter Roth is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. Education Roth studied Sociology, Political Science and Economics at the Universities of Heidelberg, Frankfurt/Main, Mannheim, Michigan/Ann Arbor and at Cornell University. Roth obtained his doctorate degree in political science from the University of Mannheim. He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Heidelberg.

#3479

Tatiana Dorofeeva

Tatiana Dorofeeva

#146376

Overall Influence

1948 - 2012 (64 years)

Tatiana Valerianovna Dorofeeva Graduated from Institute of Oriental Languages in 1970. In 1972 she started to teach Malay at the Institute of Asian and African Studies. Tatiana Dorofeeva wrote a number of important works on Malay linguistics. She was a co-author of the textbook of the Malay language and the Great Malay-Russian Dictionary .

#3480

Li Xing

#174537

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Li Xing is a Chinese professor of development and international relations at Aalborg University in Denmark. Education Li Xing holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Guangzhou University of Foreign Languages and a master’s degree in English from Aalborg University. In 1998, he received a Ph.D. in development studies and international relations at Aalborg University as well.

#3481

Avi Shlaim

#182172

Overall Influence

#3482

Chang Ya-chung

#156961

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Chang Ya-chung is a Taiwanese political scientist. He founded the in 2004 and was elected to the National Assembly in 2005, but resigned on the first day to protest the parliament's formation. He later chaired the . Chang subsequently became an active member of the Kuomintang, contesting the party's 2019 presidential primary. He was deemed an ineligible candidate for the party's 2020 leadership election, placing second in the following year.

#3483

George Ciccariello-Maher

#172261

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

George Ciccariello-Maher , also known as Geo Maher, is an American political scientist who was an associate professor of politics and global studies at Drexel University. After a tweet reputedly mocking the white genocide conspiracy theory and a tweet expressing support for the 1804 Haiti massacre, as well as other statements, Ciccariello-Maher was placed on administrative leave before resigning from Drexel. He claimed the resignation was due to "death threats and threats of violence."

#3484

Deborah Schildkraut

#177587

Overall Influence

Deborah J. Schildkraut is an American political scientist. She is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Tufts University, where she has also been department chair. She studies the relationship between American public opinion and the changing ethnic composition of the United States. She is an expert on American national identity, and how it interacts with immigration to the United States.

#3485

Krzysztof Strzałka

Krzysztof Strzałka

#154336

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Krzysztof Strzałka is a Polish political scientist and diplomat, between 2018 and 2023 serving as an ambassador to Slovakia. Life Education and scientific career Strzałka graduated from political science at the Sapienza University of Rome and from history at the Jagiellonian University . He has also completed post-graduate studies in management and business at the Jagiellonian University. He has received NATO, the Foundation for Polish Science, the Lanckoroński Foundation scholarships. In 1999, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in humanities, presenting thesis on Italy–Poland relations between 1939 and 1945.

#3486

Baldur Þórhallsson

#180514

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Baldur Þórhallsson is Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Iceland. Education Þórhallsson holds a PhD and MA in Political Science from the University of Essex in England.

#3487

George Kline

#108754

Overall Influence

1921 - 2014 (93 years)

George Louis Kline was a philosopher, translator , and prominent American specialist in Russian and Soviet philosophy, author of more than 300 publications, including two monographs, six edited or co-edited anthologies, more than 165 published articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries, over 55 translations, and 75 reviews. The majority of his works are in English, but translations of some of them have appeared in Russian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Korean and Japanese. He is particularly noted for his authoritative studies on Spinoza, Hegel, and Whitehead.

#3488

Harold V. Biellier

#141658

Overall Influence

1921 - 2011 (90 years)

Harold V. Biellier was a noted poultry scientist from Missouri. He also served in the military for much of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1969 Bieller was made professor of poultry science at University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. He also was an assistant editor for Poultry Science for a decade. He studied methods to increase egg production and one "Super Chicken" of his made into the Guinness Book of World Records for laying eggs for 448 consecutive days.

#3489

Roderick D. Bush

#141281

Overall Influence

1945 - 2013 (68 years)

Roderick Douglas Bush was an U.S. born sociologist, social activist, author, public intellectual author and academic primarily concerning the Civil rights movement . Biography Born on November 12, 1945, Bush grew up in the "Jim Crow" South before moving to Rochester, New York, as a child. As a teen, he attended Howard University and became involved in the Black Power Movement. He attended the University of Kansas, where he began his doctoral work. He left to become a full-time political activist only to return to academia in 1998. He earned his Ph.D. from Binghamton University in 1992. He served as a faculty member at St.

#3490

Peter A Hall

#182501

Overall Influence

#3491

Alex Munter

#137487

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Alexander Mathias Munter is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario , and a former elected official and business owner in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Advocacy Throughout his career, Munter has been at the forefront of numerous social change initiatives.

#3492

Bill Purcell

#161730

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

William Paxson Purcell III is an American politician who served as the fifth mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, elected first in 1999 and reelected to a second term in 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party. On June 24, 2008 he was named director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Purcell assumed the post on September 1, 2008. He was one of three co-chairs of the Harvard University Allston Work Team. He is now in private practice of law in Nashville and an adjunct professor of Public Policy at ...

#3493

Melanie Stansbury

#110669

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Melanie Ann Stansbury is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from New Mexico's 1st congressional district since 2021. The district includes most of Albuquerque and most of its suburbs. A Democrat, Stansbury was formerly a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives from the 28th district.

#3494

Arthur Stockwin

#156845

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

James Arthur Ainscow Stockwin OBE is a British political scientist who is a specialist in the politics and foreign policy of Japan. Early life Arthur Stockwin was born in Birmingham. He obtained a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University in Canberra. His thesis was titled "The Neutralist Policy of the Japanese Socialist Party".

#3495

William Bain

#152025

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Dr William Bain is a professor at the National University of Singapore, and previously senior lecturer at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in the department of International Politics. He attended the University of South Carolina where he obtained a BA. He also attended University of British Columbia in Vancouver where he achieved an MA and PhD. Prior to joining UWA he lectured at University of Glasgow in international relations theory, international ethics, and eighteenth century political thought. He was previously a marine and served in the First Gulf War. He also has a beloved cat name...

#3496

Elizabeth McLeay

#175808

Overall Influence

Elizabeth McLeay is a New Zealand political scientist. She is currently an Emeritus Professor at Victoria University of Wellington. Qualifications McLeay has a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria University of Wellington, a Postgraduate Diploma of Teaching from the Auckland Secondary Teachers’ College , and a PhD from the University of Auckland. Her doctoral thesis investigated parliamentary careers and cabinet selection in New Zealand.

#3497

Colin Fox

#157968

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Colin Fox is a national co-spokesperson of the Scottish Socialist Party . He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians region from 2003 to 2007. Described in The Herald as "one of Scotland's most prominent socialists", he is a founding member of the SSP and Scotland's longest-serving party leader or spokesperson, having been originally elected as the SSP's convener in February 2005. He was a member of the Yes Scotland Advisory Board.

#3498

Miriam Lips

#181061

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Anna Maria Barbara "Miriam" Lips is a Dutch-born academic in New Zealand. She holds the chair in digital government at the Victoria University of Wellington. Academic career After a 1996 PhD titled 'Autonomie in kwaliteit: ambiguïteit in bestuurlijke communicatie over de ontwikkeling van kwaliteitszorg in het Hoger Onderwijs' at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, she worked at University of Oxford and Tilburg University before moving to the Victoria University of Wellington.

#3499

Susan Banducci

#177474

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Susan Ann Banducci, is an American political scientist and academic. Since 2010, she has been Professor of Politics at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on inequalities in political participation, particularly gender. She previously taught at Oregon State University and Texas Tech University, and was a researcher at the University of Waikato, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Twente.

#3500

Anna Suvorova

#141813

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Anna A. Suvorova is a Russian orientalist and art critic. She is bilingual in Russian and Urdu. Biography Suvorova is the Head of the Department of Asian Literature at the Institute of Oriental Studies , Professor of Indo-Islamic culture at the Institute of Oriental and classical cultures , member of the International faculty in National College of Arts , fellow of Academic Advisory Board, Centre for Study of Gender and Culture , fellow of Royal Asiatic Society .

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