Political theorist

A political theorist is someone who engages in political theory.

Notable historic political theorists

• Aristotle
• John Austin
• Frederic Bastiat
• Jeremy Bentham
• Jean Bodin
• Edmund Burke
• Frederick Engels
• Hugo Grotius
• Johann Gottfried von Herder
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Niccolò Machiavelli
• Karl Marx
• John Stuart Mill
• John Milton
• Gustave de Molinari
• Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
• Thomas More
• Thomas Paine
• Plato
• Samuel Pufendorf
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• John of Salisbury
• Baruch Spinoza
• Lysander Spooner
• Alexis de Tocqueville

Twentieth-century political theorists

• Gabriel Almomd
• Hannah Arendt
• Isaiah Berlin
• Stephen Bronner
• Noam Chomsky
• David Easton
• Michel Foucault
• David Friedman
• Clive Hamilton
• Jean Jaurès
• V. O. Key, Jr.
• Russell Kirk
• Harold J. Laski
• Harold D. Lasswell
• Vladimir Lenin
• Robert Paul Nozick
• G. Bingham Powell
• John Rawls
• Murray Rothbard
• Leo Strauss
• Leon Trotsky
• Roberto Mangabeira Unger
• Graham Wallas
• Stephen L. Wasby
• Beatrice Webb
• Sidney Webb

See also

political science, political scientist, politics