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List of the most influential people in Political Science,

#3601

Alexander Jun

#109355

Overall Influence

Alexander Jun is an American academic and Presbyterian official. He is a professor of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University, and former moderator of the Presbyterian Church in America. He was also the first-place winner of the 2020 Korean American ROAR Story Slam in Los Angeles, CA.

#3602

Ene Ergma

#109703

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Ene Ergma is an Estonian politician, a member of the Riigikogu , and scientist. She was a member of the political party Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica and, before the two parties merged, a member of Res Publica Party. On 1 June 2016, Ergma announced her resignation from the party, because the party had lost its identity and turned populist.

#3603

Claude E. Welch Jr.

#114933

Overall Influence

Claude Emerson Welch Jr., State University of New York at Buffalo Professor of Political Science and SUNY Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, was born on 12 June 1939 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Dr. Claude E. Welch, Sr., and Phyllis Paton Welch. The younger Welch "had the values of hard work and respect for others instilled him from an early age." His father worked his way through Harvard Medical School and served as a front-line surgeon in World War II. In his medical career, he became "a fixture at Massachusetts General Hospital for more than 40 years, was an innovative...

#3604

Roy Hofheinz Jr.

#136316

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

Roy Mark Hofheinz Jr. is an American academic, sinologist who was Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is best-known for his work on the Chinese Communist Revolution. Personal life Hofheinz was born in Houston, Texas. He is the son of Texas politician and developer Roy Hofheinz. He earned a BA at Rice University, and was a Rhodes Scholar. He was awarded a PhD at Harvard in 1967.

#3605

Gopal Balakrishnan

#131959

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Gopal Balakrishnan was a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, until he was fired due to allegations of sexual assault. Balakrishnan studied European intellectual history and historical sociology at UCLA during the 1990s with Perry Anderson, Robert Brenner, Rogers Brubaker, and Michael Mann. He worked on political thought, intellectual history, and critical theory. Prior to his appointment at UC-Santa Cruz, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago.

#3606

Fiammetta Venner

#174004

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Fiammetta Venner is a French political scientist, a writer and an editor. She is director of the Prochoix journal and Ikhwan Info. She wrote in Charlie Hebdo from 1995 to 2009, then again after the terrorist attack of January 2015. Since 2007, she directs a series of documentary called 100 muslim women speak for themselves

#3607

Lawrence Schall

#74707

Overall Influence

Lawrence M. "Larry" Schall is the president of the New England Commission of Higher Education and the former and sixteenth president of Oglethorpe University, a private liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia.

#3608

Abby Marlatt

#153230

Overall Influence

1916 - 2010 (94 years)

Abby Lindsey Marlatt, Ph.D. was a social justice activist and a teacher scholar committed to civic engagement. While a professor at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, she became the center of controversy at UK in the mid-1960s over anti-war protests and whether the university could censor her in her role as a public intellectual. She was honored for her work by many academic, professional and community organizations including the National Conference for Community and Justice, and she was inducted into the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame in 2001.

#3609

Deborah Brennan

#178125

Overall Influence

Deborah Jane Brennan is an Australian Professor in social policy research, who was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia, in the Queens Birthday Honours list, in 2022, for her significant service to social policy research, gender equity and tertiary education.

#3610

George Bunn

#113386

Overall Influence

1925 - 2013 (88 years)

George Bunn was an American diplomat, lawyer, and nonproliferation expert. He drafted the legislation that created the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency , was one of the lead U.S. negotiators of the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty , served as Dean of the law school at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and spent the last two decades of his career at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.

#3611

Jody C. Baumgartner

#173046

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Jody C Baumgartner is the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, in the Department of Political Science at East Carolina University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Miami University in 1998, specializing in the study of political humor, the vice presidency and presidential campaigns and elections. He is probably best known for researching the effects of viewing political humor on people's political attitudes, such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. [4][5]. He has authored or edited ten books , most recently, the encyclopedia of "American of...

#3612

Willard Johnson

#148549

Overall Influence

Willard R. Johnson was an American political scientist and African studies expert. He was a professor emeritus of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Johnson studied the development of political institutions and international relations, with a particular focus on Cameroon and other African countries. He was also an activist on issues relating to African politics, for example United States Government disinvestment from South Africa during Apartheid.

#3613

Dan Cassino

#177312

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Daniel Cassino is an American political scientist, historian, and poll analyzer. He is a professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Cassino is married to sociologist scientist Yasemin Besen–Cassino and the two often collaborate on research projects.

#3614

Per K. Sørensen

Per K. Sørensen

#151470

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Per Kjeld Sørensen is a prominent Danish Tibetologist who specialises in Tibetan and Himalayan history, literature and culture. Since 1994 he has been Professor of Central Asian Studies at Leipzig University, Germany.

#3615

Charles Ritcheson

#97315

Overall Influence

1925 - 2011 (86 years)

Charles Ray Ritcheson was an American historian, diplomat, and university administrator. Early life and education The son of Charles Frederick Ritcheson and Jewell Vaughn, Ritcheson was raised in Oklahoma and attended the University of Oklahoma. Interrupting his studies, he served in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1945, becoming a Lieutenant, Junior Grade. When Admiral Elliott Buckmaster took command of Task Force 74 operating in the South China Seas, Ritcheson joined his staff as Signal Officer. After the end of the war, Ritcheson returned to his studies and obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and classics in 1946.

#3616

Craig Mullaney

#72792

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

Craig Michael Mullaney is a United States Army veteran and author of The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education . He was Senior Vice President of Content, Strategy and Operations at Ustream from 2011 to 2013. He also served as Senior Policy Advisor working for the United States Agency for International Development. He currently works on Strategic Partner Development at Facebook.

#3617

Dan Breznitz

#186564

Overall Influence

Dan Breznitz is a Canadian political scientist, whose 2020 book Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World, which was the winner of the 2021 Donner Prize and the 2021 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.

#3618

David Rayside

#179839

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

David Morton Rayside is a Canadian academic and activist. He was a professor of political science at the University of Toronto until his retirement in 2013, and was the founding director of the university's Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies from 2004 to 2008.

#3619

Jonathan S. Morris

#112428

Overall Influence

Jonathan S. Morris is an American political scientist and professor of political science at East Carolina University , where he is also the director of undergraduate studies in the department of political science. He is known for researching the effects of exposure to news satire television shows, such as the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, on people's political attitudes. For example, a 2006 study he co-authored with his ECU colleague, Jody Baumgartner, examined the effects of viewing the Daily Show's coverage of the 2004 U.S. presidential election on voters' perceptions of George W. Bush and John Kerry among 732 college students.

#3620

Michael Tracey

#186107

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Michael Tracey is a British-American academic and television producer with a specialty in public service broadcasting. He acquired notability as a result of his tenure as the head of the Broadcasting Research Unit in London, a British think tank dealing with media issues, and later with his investigative reporting on the death of JonBenét Ramsey. He is the author of The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting and the Production of Political Television. He is currently a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

#3621

Jens Ludwig

#186668

Overall Influence

#3622

Birgit Krawietz

#119183

Overall Influence

Birgit Krawietz is professor of Islamic Studies at the Institut für Islamwissenschaft at the Freie Universität Berlin. Biography Birgit Krawietz is professor of Islamic Studies. She earned her PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Freiburg in 1990. From 1992 to 1998 she worked as a post-doctoral assistant at the Orientalische Seminar at the University of Tübingen. After having finished her habilitation with Professor Joseph van Ess at the Orientalische Seminar of the Universität Tübingen about "Hierarchie der Rechtsquellen im tradierten sunnitischen Islam" she left for the United States to join the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey as a fellow.

#3623

Aliza Lavie

#106536

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Aliza Lavie is an Israeli academic and politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid between 2013 and 2019, and is a senior lecturer at the School of Communication at Bar-Ilan University. She is also an author, publicist, media personality, and social activist. Her work focuses on gender issues and multiculturalism in Judaism and Israeli society.

#3624

Vasil Garnizov

#142539

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Vasil Garnizov is a Bulgarian anthropologist and political scientist. Vasil Garnizov is one of the founders of the New Bulgarian University, secretary of the Society for New Bulgarian University, initiator of the establishment of the Department of Anthropology and a lecturer in the department since its inception. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University.

#3625

Mark Kamlet

#173039

Overall Influence

Mark S. Kamlet is an American political scientist currently the University Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#3626

Devesh Kapur

#186845

Overall Influence

#3627

Tracy B. Strong

#170669

Overall Influence

1943 - 2022 (79 years)

Tracy Burr Strong was a philosopher and political theorist. His first book, Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration was recognised as a valuable contribution to scholarship on the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It repositioned Nietzsche's project as political against the assumption that Nietzsche's philosophy was apolitical.

#3628

Laura Nuño Gómez

Laura Nuño Gómez

#112742

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Laura Nuño Gómez is a Spanish political scientist, researcher, and feminist activist. She is director of the Gender Studies Chair of the Institute of Public Law and the Gender Equality Observatory at King Juan Carlos University , as well as the creator of the first academic degree in Gender Studies in Spain, and of various postgraduate programs in this subject. She is the author of El mito del varón sustentador , as well as about 30 articles and books about her research. Since the enactment of the , she has been one of the three expert members of the State Council for the Participation of Wom...

#3629

Étienne Balibar

#186883

Overall Influence

#3630

V. David Zvenyach

#180588

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (43 years)

Vladlen David Zvenyach is an American government technology executive, author, lawyer, and professor. From 2021 to 2022, he served in the Biden Administration as the Director of the Technology Transformation Services and the Deputy of the Federal Acquisition Service in the U.S. General Services Administration. Zvenyach's prior roles in public service included serving was the Executive Director of the federal innovation organization 18F and the Acting Assistant Commissioner, Office of Systems Management within the Federal Acquisition Service. In his role at 18F, he pioneered new methods of government procurement.

#3631

Yuri Alekseevich Ryzhov

Yuri Alekseevich Ryzhov

#69277

Overall Influence

1930 - 2017 (87 years)

Yuri Alekseevich Ryzhov was a Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of fluid dynamics, political and social activist, diplomat, Doctor of Technical Sciences , member of the Russian Academy of Sciences , former Russian Ambassador to France .

#3632

Susan L. Ziadeh

#137712

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Susan L. Ziadeh is a member of the Middle East Institute’s Board of Governors who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Qatar from 2011 to 2014. Her rank was as a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor.

#3633

Peter Iver Kaufman

#186918

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Peter Iver Kaufman is an American philosopher. He is the George Matthews and Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair in Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond and is an emeritus professor of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

#3634

Milan Božić

#178577

Overall Influence

Milan Božić is an academic, administrator, and politician in Serbia. He was a cabinet minister in the Yugoslavian government in 1999, has served in the assemblies of Yugoslavia and Serbia, and at one time was the acting mayor of Belgrade. He now serves as chair of the supervisory board of Telekom Srbija. A member of the Serbian Renewal Movement for most of his time as an elected official, Božić is now a member of the Serbian Progressive Party .

#3635

Dale L. Smith

#186956

Overall Influence

Dale L. Smith is an American political scientist and Professor of International Studies and Chair of Global Studies at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He was Paul Piccard Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Florida State University between September 2014 and June 2016.

#3636

Magdalena Śniadecka-Kotarska

#88455

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Magdalena Śniadecka-Kotarska is the Polish Ambassador to Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. She is an ethnologist/anthropologist of culture and politics, the first Polish Latin Americanist, conducting field research in Andean America devoted to ethnopolitics, native populations and gender identity.

#3637

Marc Lanteigne

#186989

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Marc Lanteigne is a Canadian political scientist originally from Montréal. He is associate professor of Political Science at the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, teaching international relations , comparative politics, security studies and comparative political economy. Prior to that, Lanteigne was a Senior Research Associate at Department of East Asian Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, and Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at Massey University in Auckland. He is Editor-in-Chief of an Arctic news website Over the Circle, a part-time lecturer at Peking Universi...

#3638

Sidney Rittenberg

Sidney Rittenberg

#168354

Overall Influence

1921 - 2019 (98 years)

Sidney Rittenberg was an American journalist, scholar, and Chinese linguist who lived in China from 1944 to 1980. He worked closely with Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, and other leaders of the Chinese Communist Party during the Chinese Communist Revolution, and was with these central Communist leaders at Yan'an. Later, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement, twice. In his book "The Man Who Stayed Behind", Rittenberg stated that he was the second American citizen to join the CCP, the first being the Lebanese-American Doctor Ma Haide

#3639

Michael Graham

#48790

Overall Influence

Michael Graham is an American conservative media personality and commentator based in Boston. He is a political editor for NH Journal, a columnist for the Boston Herald and a CBS News analyst. Career Graham was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Pelion, South Carolina. A graduate of Oral Roberts University, he worked as a stand-up comedian before beginning his political career as a statewide coordinator for Pat Buchanan's Primary campaign in 1992. This experience led to his working in various Republican campaigns over the next few years. One of his candidates included Harold Worle...

#3640

Youcef Yousfi

#71495

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Youcef Yousfi is an Algerian politician who was the country's Minister of Energy and Mines between 2010 and 2015. He briefly served as Acting Prime Minister of Algeria in March–April 2014. Yousfi was Algeria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2006 to 2008.

#3641

Mary O'Brien

#59861

Overall Influence

1926 - 1998 (72 years)

Mary Mamie O'Brien was a feminist philosopher and professor. She taught sociology and feminist social theory in Canada until her death. She was a founding member of the Feminist Party of Canada. Life Mary Mamie O'Brien was born on 8 July 1926 in Walmer, Kent. Unable to take care of her children, her mother took Mary and her brother to Glasgow at the age of four, where they were raised by three aunts. According to The Women's Review of Books obituary, "Mary always said she was English by birth, Irish by name and Scottish by choice; later, she became a Canadian by choice."

#3642

Jelena Džankić

#187164

Overall Influence

Jelena Džankić is Co-Director of the Global Citizenship Observatory and part-time professor at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Career Džankić studied Political Science/International Relations and European Studies at the American University in Bulgaria. She received her PhD in International Studies from the University of Cambridge where she focused on nationalism in the new states in the Western Balkans. Džankić researches the wealth-based acquisition of citizenship, state and nation building, and Europeanisation. She is a part-time professor at the European University Inst...

#3643

Christopher Cullen

#78069

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Christopher Cullen is an English sinologist born in 1946. He has an MA from University of Oxford in engineering and a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies in classical Chinese. He is Director Emeritus of the Needham Research Institute and General Editor of the Science and Civilisation in China series, succeeding Joseph Needham. His own area of research is the Han Dynasty and he translated the Book on Numbers and Computation into English.

#3644

John E. Seery

#142084

Overall Influence

John Evan Seery is an American political theorist who specializes in the history of American political thought. He is the George Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and Professor of Politics at Pomona College.

#3645

Gilbert Winham

#167288

Overall Influence

1938 - 2019 (81 years)

Gilbert Rathbone Winham was an American-born political scientist. Early life Winham was born in New York City on 11 May 1938 to parents Alfred R. Winham and Margery Rankin Post. Winham served in the United States Navy for three years prior to attending the University of Manchester, where he earned a diploma in international law. Following the completion of a doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Winham taught at McMaster University. He joined the Dalhousie University faculty in 1975 and retired in 2003. Winham was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1994. H...

#3646

Gideon Rose

#187235

Overall Influence

#3647

Anton Carpinschi

#171024

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Anton Carpinschi is a Romanian political philosopher, professor emeritus at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași, and first head of the chair of politology of this university after the Romanian Revolution of 1989. He is an expert in political ideologies and international organizations, and the author of many publications in these fields. In December 2014 Carpinschi was awarded the 2012 Mircea Florian prize of the Romanian Academy for his book on recognition culture and human security, and its contribution to the development of Romanian culture and science in the fields of philosophy, theolog...

#3648

Michael Lewis-Beck

#187267

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Michael Steven Lewis-Beck is an American political scientist and the F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa. His research focuses on comparative politics, political forecasting, and political methodology. He was formerly the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Political Science from 1993 to 1994. He has received media attention for his predictions of the results of United States presidential elections based on economic factors. He predicted that George H. W. Bush would win the 1992 presidential election, that Bill Clinton would win in 1...

#3649

Richard Hatherley Pear

#158493

Overall Influence

1916 - 1998 (82 years)

Richard Hatherley Pear was a British political scientist. He was Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham from 1965. He was the son of Tom Hatherley Pear, one of the first professors of psychology in Britain. He received a Politics degree at the London School of Economics in 1938. He served in the Armoured Corps in Kenya in World War 2, rising to the rank of Staff Captain. After the war, he taught at LSE, until his appointment at Nottingham.

#3650

Kathie Stromile Golden

#185622

Overall Influence

Kathie Stromile Golden is an American political scientist. She is the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Mississippi Valley State University, where she is also a Professor of Rural Public Policy. She specializes in the politics of communist and post-communist societies.

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