List of political scientists

See also: Political Science

Notable political scientists

• Kenneth Arrow - Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who published influential paper on his widely cited Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
• Robert Axelrod

• 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
• Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
• Nathan Busch

• John M. Carey
• 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
• Clyde Coombs
• Philip Cowley

• Robert A. Dahl
• 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.
• Everett Dolman
• Maurice Duverger - French lawyer and sociologist responsible for Duverger's law

• Peter Fishburn
• Ernst Fraenkel

• Joanne Gowa

• Thomas Hare - Devised single transfer voting (a.k.a. Hare's method)
• Paul Heywood
• John Hickman
• Roger Hilsman - JFK Aid, Columbia University Professor, and prolific authior
• Timothy Hoye
• Samuel P. Huntington

• Gary C. Jacobson
• Robert Jervis
• Chalmers Johnson

• Robert O. Keohane
• Chong Lim Kim
• Stephen D. Krasner

• Arend Lijphart

• Kenneth May
• David R. Mayhew
• John Mearsheimer
• Samuel Merrill III

• Pippa Norris
• Philip Norton

• Mancur Olson

• Nelson Polsby
• Samuel L. Popkin
• Robert Putnam - social capital theorist, author of Bowling Alone

• William H. Riker - 20th century political scientist who applied game theory to political science.

• Fernanda Sales
• Giovanni Sartori
• James C. Scott
• Patrick Seyd
• Lilia Shevtsova
• Matthew Soberg Shugart
• Robert J. Spitzer
• Peverill Squire
• Wayne P. Steger
• Joseph E. Stiglitz
• James A. Stimson
• John G. Stoessinger

• Rein Taagepera
• Nicolaus Tideman
• David B. Truman

• Kenneth N. Waltz
• Paul Whiteley
• Howard J. Wiarda
• Susan L. Woodward

• Fareed Zakaria

See also: Political Theorist, list of people