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''This is a list of notable political scientists. See also Political Science .''

NOTABLE POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

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Christopher H. Achen - Political methodologist at Princeton University , first president of the Society for Political Methodology.

John Aldrich - Political parties expert at Duke University , author of ''Why Parties?''

Graham Allison - "Essence of decision" author; early bureaucratic politics model proponent; former Dean of Kennedy School Of Government at Harvard University .

Gabriel A. Almond - Originator of culturist movement in Comparative Politics

R. Douglas Arnold - Congress scholar, author of ''The Logic of Congressional Action''

Robert Axelrod - Notable game theorist, wrote extensively on the "Prisoner's Dilemma"

B

Stephen Barber - Noted for his work on political strategy and political economy. Author of ''Political Strategy''.

Larry Bartels - Democracy and voting expert at Princeton University

Nathaniel Beck - Political methodologist, international relations scholar

Duncan Black - Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson .

Jean-Charles De Borda - 18th century Mathematician who devised the Borda Count .

Steven Brams - Expert on voting systems.

John Brehm - Public opinion and political psychology expert.

Ian Bremmer - Political risk specialist.

Stephen Bronner

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita - Pioneering game theorist with applications to international relations, seminal book "The War Trap".

Walter Dean Burnham - Expert in the field of realigning elections.

C

Edward Hallett Carr - Noted international relations theorist.

Marquis De Condorcet - 18th century Mathematician and Philosopher who contributed the often used ''Condorcet criterion'' and devised the concept of a Condorcet Method .

John Coneybeare - International organizations theorist.

Philip Converse - Public opinion scholar, author of "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics."

Clyde Coombs - Voting systems expert, designed "Coombs' method"

Colm Costigan - Renowned Irish Politician of the 1970s , professor at Dublin University

Gary Cox - Noted scholar of comparative and American politics.

Philip Cowley - Author of "Revolts and Rebellions".

D

Robert A. Dahl - Noted American politics specialist, author of ''On Democracy'' (Yale University Press)

Larry Diamond - Comparative democratization specialist

John Dilulio - American politics expert at the University Of Pennsylvania ; first director of the White House Office Of Faith-Based And Community Groups

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll ) - Famous author of '' Alice In Wonderland '' who was also a noted professor of mathematics at Oxford University . He devised Dodgson's Method of Voting System .

Anthony Downs - Elections expert.

Maurice Duverger - French Lawyer and Sociologist responsible for Duverger's Law .

Michael W. Doyle - International relations theorist, author of "Empires".

E

David Easton - Originator of systemic theory

Harry Eckstein - Noted comparative politics expert in culture and democracy.

F

Peter D. Feaver - International security expert.

Richard Fenno - Congress scholar, author of ''Home Style: House Members in their Districts''

Samuel Finer - Academic and author on political science and history of government.

Martha Finnemore - International organizations and ethics scholar.

Peter Fishburn - Operations analysis and probability theory expert.

Keith Fitzgerald - Immigration politics expert.

Ernst Fraenkel

Francis Fukayama - International political theory and biopolitics.

G

Anthony Giddens - Noted political sociologist originator of the Third Way.

Anthony Gill - Comparativist, religion and politics specialist. Author of ''Rendering Unto Caesar'' (University of Chicago Press)

Robert Gilpin - International political economics specialist.

Joanne Gowa - International political economy expert (democratic peace theory).

Amy Gutmann - political theory expert; (2004-present) President of the University Of Pennsylvania

H

Harry Harding - China specialist.

Thomas Hare - Devised Single Transferable Vote (a.k.a. Hare's method).

Michael Hart - British twentieth century politics specialist.

Marc Hetherington - Author of "Why Trust Matters" and offered new participation paradigm.

Roger Hilsman - JFK Aid, Columbia University Professor, and prolific author.

Donald Horowitz - Pioneered political science models for assessing ethnic conflict.

Evelyne Huber - Co-author of " Capitalist Development And Democracy " Comparative political economy in Latin America and Europe.

Samuel P. Huntington - Author of " Clash Of Civilizations " and a noted comparativist.

I

J

Gary C. Jacobson - Congressional politics expert

Robert Jervis - International security specialist.

Chalmers Johnson - Comparative theorist.

Loch K. Johnson - U.S. Intelligence Expert.

K

Robert O. Keohane - Interdependence theory author.

V.O. Key, Jr. - Elections, parties and public opinion scholar.

Dr. Henry Kissinger - Former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President Richard M. Nixon .

Stephen D. Krasner - International regimes author, Director of Policy Planning under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Keith Krehbiel - Congress scholar and formal theorist

Will Kymlicka - Originated the theoretical foundations of multiculturalism.

L

David A. Lake - International Relations Theorist

Richard Ned Lebow - Noted constructivist, Cold War expert, author of "Tragic Vision of Politics".

Margaret Levi

Arend Lijphart - Originator of consociationalism.

Eric J. Lindblom - Latin American theorist

Seymour Martin Lipset - Renowned political theorist on democracy and development and parties.

Ramon Llull - Discoverer of Condorcet Criterion and Borda Count

Theodore Lowi

Ian Lustick - Expert on state territioriality ethnic conflict and computer modelling in political science; professor of political science at the University Of Pennsylvania

M

Vincent A. Mahler - International Relations and Income Inequality expert

David R. Mayhew - US legislative behavior and political parties expert.

Mathew McCubbins - Formal theorist. U.S. Congress and bureaucracy specialist.

Michael McFaul - Russia specialist.

John Mearsheimer - Noted international relations theorist and national security expert.

Samuel Merrill III - Voting theory specialist.

George Michael - specialist in Right-wing Extremism .

Terry Moe - American politics specialist and game theorist.

Hans Morgenthau - Noted realist, international relations specialist.

James Morrow - International relations expert and game theorist.

N

Douglass North - Nobel laureate

Philip Norton - Acclaimed British politics expert

Joseph Nye - "Soft power" international security specialist; Kennedy School Dean.

O

Mancur Olson - International political economy specialist. Expert on collective action problems.

P

Nelson Polsby - American politics scholar.

Samuel L. Popkin - Early expert on rational choice theory.

Adam Przeworski - Democratic transitions theorist, author of '' Democracy And Development ''. Member of the September Group .

Robert Putnam - Social capital theorist, author of '' Bowling Alone ''.

R

William H. Riker - 20th century political scientist who applied Game Theory to political science.

Douglas Rivers - Political econometrician, quantitative methods expert.

David Rohde - Congress scholar

Stein Rokkan - Expert on political parties and movements, founder of the Institute for Comparative Politics.

Richard Rosecrance - International relations and political economy expert.

S

David Samuels - Comparativist scholar of Brazilian politics and political institutions.

Giovanni Sartori - Comparativist, expert on constitutional theory and party systems; author of ''Parties and Party Systems''.

E.E. Schattschneider - Early political parties expert, author of ''Party Government'' and ''The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America''

James C. Scott - Political economist, expert on Southeast Asia.

Stephen Skowronek - Presidency and American political development scholar ( Yale University )

Matthew Soberg Shugart - Scholar of constitutional design and electoral systems.

Rogers Smith - Pulitzer Prize finalist, American politics expert at the University Of Pennsylvania

Herbert Simon - Nobel Prize winning professor at Carnegie Mellon . A founder of Artificial Intelligence research, he received his Ph.D. in political science from the University Of Chicago

Theda Skocpol - Comparative politics expert.

Zeev Sternhell - Theorist, political historian of political ideology.

James A. Stimson - Americanist, former editor of Political Analysis .

John G. Stoessinger - International relations theorist, author of "The Might of Nations: World Politics in our Time".

Leo Strauss - Political theorist; author of "History Of Political Philosophy" ; originator of Straussian thought

T

David B. Truman

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V

Eric Voegelin - Major work, "Order and History" in five volumes, he rejected the notion that political science should become a positivistic social science.

W

Stephen Walt - International relations specialist.

Kenneth N. Waltz - A dean of the realist international relations school.

Alexander Wendt - Social Constructivism proponent

Aaron Wildavsky - Author of "Risk and Culture".

James Q. Wilson - Former President of the American Political Science Association

Woodrow Wilson - Former Professor of Politics at Princeton University and former U.S. President

Susan L. Woodward

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Y

Crawford Young - Noted comparativist, Africa scholar.

Z

Fareed Zakaria - Newsweek International editor, comparativist.

John Zaller - Author of "The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion," at UCLA .

PRESIDENTS OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

Frank J. Goodnow , 1904-1905

Albert Shaw , 1905-1906

Frederick N. Judson , 1906-1907

James Bryce , 1907-1908

A. Lawerence Lowell , 1908-1909

Woodrow Wilson , 1909-1910

Simeon E. Baldwin , 1910-1911

Albert Bushnell Hart , 1911-1912

W.W. Willoughby , 1912-1913

John Bassett Moore , 1913-1914

Ernst Freund , 1914-1915

Jesse Macy , 1915-1916

Munroe Smith , 1916-1917

Henry Jones Ford , 1917-1918

Paul S. Reinsch , 1918-1919

Leo S. Rowe , 1919-1920

William A. Dunning , 1920-1921

Harry A. Garfield , 1921-1922

James W. Garner , 1923-1924

Charles E. Merriam , 1924-1923

Charles A. Beard , 1925-1924

William Bennett Munro , 1926-1925

Jesse S. Reeves , 1927-1926

John A. Fairlie , 1928-1927

Benjamin F. Shambaugh , 1929-1928

Edward S. Corwin , 1930-1929

William F. Willoughby , 1931-1932

Isidor Loeb , 1932-1933

Walter J. Shepard , 1933-1934

Francis W. Coker , 1934-1935

Arthur N. Holcombe , 1935-1936

Thomas Reed Powell , 1936-1937

Clarence A. Dykstra , 1937-1938

Charles Grove Haines , 1938-1939

Robert C. Brooks , 1939-1940

Frederic A. Ogg , 1940-1941

William Anderson , 1941-1942

Robert E. Cushman , 1942-1943

Leonard D. White , 1943-1944

John Gaus , 1944-1945

Walter F. Dodd , 1945-1946

Arthur W. MacMahon , 1946-1947

Henry R. Spencer , 1947-1948

Quincy Wright , 1948-1949

James K. Pollock , 1949-1950

Peter H. Odegard , 1950-1951

Luther Gulick , 1951-1952

Pendleton Herring , 1952-1953

Ralph J. Bunche , 1953-1954

Charles McKinley , 1954-1955

Harold D. Lasswell , 1955-1956

E.E. Schattschneider , 1956-1957

V.O. Key, Jr. , 1957-1958

R. Taylor Cole , 1958-1959

Carl B. Swisher , 1959-1960

Emmette S. Redford , 1960-1961

Charles S. Hyneman , 1961-1962

Carl J. Friedrich , 1962-1963

C. Herman Pritchett , 1963-1964

David B. Truman , 1964-1965

Gabriel A. Almond , 1965-1966

Robert A. Dahl , 1966-1967

Merle Fainsod , 1967-1968

David Easton , 1968-1969

Karl W. Deutsch , 1969-1970

Robert E. Lane , 1979-1971

Heinz Eulau , 1971-1972

Robert E. Ward , 1972-1973

Avery Leiserson , 1973-1974

Austin Ranney , 1974-1975

James MacGregor Burns , 1975-1976

Samuel H. Beer , 1976-1977

John C. Wahlke , 1977-1978

Leon D. Epstein , 1978-1979

Warren E. Miller , 1979-1980

Charles E. Lindblom , 1980-1981

Seymour Martin Lipset , 1981-1982

William H. Riker , 1982-1983

Philip E. Converse , 1983-1984

Richard F. Fenno, Jr. , 1984-1985

Aaron B. Wildavsky , 1985-1986

Samuel P. Huntington , 1986-1987

Kenneth N. Waltz , 1987-1988

Lucian W. Pye , 1988-1989

Judith N. Shklar , 1989-1990

Theodore J. Lowi , 1990-1991

James Q. Wilson , 1991-1992

Lucius J. Barker , 1992-1993

Charles O. Jones , 1993-1994

Sidney Verba , 1994-1995

Arend Lijphart , 1995-1996

Elinor Ostrom , 1996-1997

M. Kent Jennings , 1997-1998

Matthew Holden Jr. , 1998-1999

Robert O. Keohane , 1999-2000

Robert Jervis , 2000-2001

Robert Putnam , 2001-2002

Theda Skocpol , 2002-2003

Susanne Hoeber , 2003-2004

Rudolph Margaret Levi , 2004-2005

Ira Katznelson , 2005-2006

PRESIDENTS OF THE MIDWEST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

James K. Pollock , University of Michigan, 1939

W.H.C. Laves , University of Chicago, 1940

Francis G. Wilson , University of Illinois, 1941

John E. Briggs , State U. of Iowa, 1942

Howard White , Miami University, 1943-47

Harold Zink , DePauw University, 1948

Llewellyn Pfankuchen , University of Wisconsin, 1949

Harold M. Door , University of Michigan, 1950

Charles M. Kneier , University of Illinois, 1951

Harold M. Vinacke , University of Cincinnati, 1952

Kirk H. Porter , State University of Iowa, 1953

Harry W. Voltmer , DePauw University, 1954

Asher Christensen , University of Minnesota, 1955

Edward H. Buehrig , Indiana University, 1955 (Acting President)

David Fellman , University of Wisconsin, 1956

Wilfred E. Binkley , Ohio Northern University, 1957

Clarence A. Berdahl , University of Illinois, 1958

Jasper B. Shannon , University of Nebraska, 1959

Amry Vandenbosch , University of Kentucky, 1960

Lloyd M. Short , University of Minnesota, 1961

Richard Spencer , Coe College, 1962

E. Allen Helms , Ohio State University, 1963

William O. Farber , University of South Dakota, 1964

John E. Stoner , Indiana University, 1965

Clara Penniman , University of Wisconsin, 1966

Vernon Van Dyke , University of Iowa, 1967

John D. Lewis , Oberlin College, 1968

Samuel J. Eldersveld , University of Michigan, 1969

Merle Kling , Washington University, 1970

John Wahlke , University of Iowa, 1971

Leon D. Epstein , University of Wisconsin, 1972

Doris A. Graber , University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, 1973

Frank Sorauf , University of Minnesota, 1974

Charles Press , Michigan State University, 1975

Norton Long , University of Missouri, St. Louis, 1976

Samuel Krislov , University of Minnesota, 1977

Robert Salisbury , Washington University, 1978

John Kessel , Ohio State University, 1979

Malcolm E. Jewell , University of Kentucky, 1980

Samuel C. Patterson , University of Iowa, 1981

Dina Zinnes , University of Illinois, 1982

Jack Dennis , University of Wisconsin, 1983

Lucius Barker , Washington University, St. Louis, 1984

Elinor Ostrom , Indiana University, 1985

W. Phillips Shively , University of Minnesota, 1986

Ada Finifter , Michigan State University, 1987

John Kingdon , University of Michigan, 1988

William Crotty , Northwestern University, 1989

Richard Watson , University of Missouri, Columbia, 1990

Marjorie Randon Hershey , Indiana University, 1991

Charles O. Jones , University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992

Susan Welch , Penn State, 1993

Lee Sigelman , George Washington University, 1994

John Sprague , Washington University, 1995

James Stimson , University of Minnesota, 1996

Arlene Saxonhouse , University of Michigan, 1997

Harold Spaeth , Michigan State University, 1998

James L. Gibson , Washington University, 1999

Milton Lodge , SUNY-Stony Brook, 2000

Robert Huckfeldt , Indiana University, 2001

Herbert Weisberg , The Ohio State University, 2002

Lee Epstein , Washington University, 2003

Virginia Gray , University of North Carolina, 2004

John H. Aldrich , Duke University, 2005

PRESIDENTS OF THE CANADIAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

Adam Shortt , (Civil Service Commission), 1913-1914

O.D. Skelton , (Queen’s), 1929-1930

Stephen B. Leacock , (McGill), 1934-1935

R.H. Coats , (Toronto), 1935-1936

W.A. Mackintosh , (Queen’s), 1936-1937

H.A. Innis , (Toronto), 1937-1938

J.W. Dafoe , (Winnipeg Free Press), 1938-1939

J.C. Hemmeon , 1939-1940

W.C. Clark , (Deputy Minister of Finance), 1940-1941

H. Mitchell , 1941-1942

C.A. Dawson , 1942-1943

R.A. MacKay , (Dalhousie), 1943-1944

K.W. Taylor , 1944-1945

R. MacGregor Dawson , (Toronto), 1945-1946

F.A. Knox , 1946-1947

V.W. Bladen , (Toronto), 1947-1948

H.F. Angus , (British Columbia), 1948-1949

W.B. Hurd , (McMaster), 1949-1950

C.A. Curtis , (Curtis), 1950-1951

G.-H. Levesque , (Laval), 1951-1952

Herbert Marshall , 1952-1953

Alexander Brady , (Toronto), 1953-1954

J.A. Corry , (Queen’s), 1954-1955

J.D. Gibson , 1955-1956

G.E. Britnell , (Sasktachewan), 1956-1957

G.A. Elliott , (Alberta), 1957-1958

S.D. Clark , (Toronto), 1958-1959

Mabel Timlin , (Saskatchewan), 1959-1960

C.A. Ashley , 1960-1961

Eugene A. Forsey , (Canadian Labour Congress), 1961-1962

W.J. Waines , 1962-1963

C.B. Macpherson , (Toronto), 1963-1964

Jean-Charles Falardeau , (Laval), 1964-1965

Harry G. Johnson , (London School of Economics/Chicago), 1965-1966

Anthony D. Scott , (British Columbia), 1966-1967

H.B. Mayo , (Carleton), 1967-1968

Donald V. Smiley , (British Columbia), 1968-1969

Douglas V. Verney , (York), 1969-1970

Gilles Lalande , (Montréal), 1970-1971

J.E. Hodgetts , (Toronto), 1971-1972

Jean Laponce , (British Columbia), 1972-1973

John Meisel , (Queen’s), 1973-1974

Léon Dion , (Laval), 1974-1975

Donald C. Rowat , (Carleton), 1975-1976

Alan C. Cairns , (British Columbia), 1976-1977

Hugh Thorburn , (Queen’s), 1977-1978

Kenneth D. McRae , (Carleton), 1978-1979

Paul W. Fox , (Toronto), 1979-1980

Walter D. Young , (Victoria), 1980-1981

Denis Stairs , (Dalhousie), 1981-1982

Edwin R. Black , (Queen’s), 1982-1983

Caroline Andrew , (Ottawa), 1983-1984

Kalevi J. Holsti , (British Columbia), 1984-1985

Frederick C. Engelmann , (Alberta), 1985-1986

O.P. Dwivedi , (Guelph), 1986-1987

John C. Courtney , (Saskatchewan), 1987-1988

David J. Elkins , (British Columbia), 1988-1989

André-J. Bélanger , (Montréal), 1989-1990

Peter H. Russell , (Toronto), 1990-1991

Vincent Lemieux , (Laval), 1991-1992

V. Seymour Wilson , (Carleton), 1992-1993

Sylvia Bashevkin , (Toronto), 1993-1994

David Smith , (Saskatchewan), 1994-1995

Peter Aucoin , (Dalhousie), 1995-1996

Jane Jenson , (Montréal), 1996-1997

Tom Pocklington , (Alberta), 1997-1998

Donald Savoie , (Moncton), 1998-1999

Roger Gibbins , (Calgary), 1999-2000

Kenneth McRoberts , (York), 2000-2001

R. Kenneth Carty , (British Columbia), 2001-2002

Grace Skogstad , (Toronto), 2002-2003

Robert Young , (Western Ontario), 2003-2004

André Blais , (Montréal), 2004-2005

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