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Liu Qing (political scientist)
Liu Qing (刘擎, born 1963) is a Chinese political scientist and liberal public intellectual at East China Normal University, Shanghai, known for his book Lectures on Modern Western Thought.
Margaret Levi
Margaret Levi is an American political scientist, emerita professor at Stanford and the University of Washington, known for her theory of quasi-voluntary compliance and the 2019 Johan Skytte Prize.
Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller, also known as Matthew Stoller, is an American antitrust writer and former congressional staffer who leads research at the American Economic Liberties Project.
Matthew M. Kavanagh
Matthew M. Kavanagh is an American political scientist who directs Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Policy & Politics and studies pandemic inequality and access to medicines.
Michael Ignatieff
Michael Grant Ignatieff (born 1947, Toronto) is a Canadian historian, writer, and former politician who led the Liberal Party of Canada and the Official Opposition 2008–2011, lost the 2011 election, and later led Central European University.
Michael R. Reich
Michael R. Reich is a political scientist and Taro Takemi Professor, Emeritus, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for work on health reform and medicines policy.
Mogens N. Pedersen
Mogens N. Pedersen (born 1939) is a Danish political scientist, among the first in Denmark, best known for the electoral volatility index from his 1979 article.
Moisey Ostrogorsky
Moisey Ostrogorsky (Моисе́й Острого́рский), 1854–1919 or 1921, was a Belarusian political scientist and founder of political sociology, known for the comparative study of party organization.
Morris P. Fiorina
Morris P. Fiorina (born 1946) is an American political scientist, the Wendt Family Professor at Stanford University and a Hoover Institution senior fellow, known for Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America.
Norman Finkelstein
Norman G. Finkelstein (born 1953), American political scientist and son of Holocaust survivors, author of The Holocaust Industry and Beyond Chutzpah; known for the Dershowitz feud and 2007 DePaul tenure denial, distinct from writer Norman H. Finkelstein and the poet Norman Finkelstein.
Norman Schofield
Norman Schofield (1944–2019) was a British-born political economist who held the Taussig chair at Washington University in St. Louis and proved the McKelvey–Schofield chaos theorems on majority-rule voting instability.
P. W. Singer
P. W. Singer, also known as Peter Warren Singer, is an American political scientist and author who studies how technology, private contractors, and social media change war.
Parag Khanna
Parag Khanna, born 1977 in Kanpur, India, is a political scientist and geopolitical analyst whose books, including Connectography (2016), argue that connectivity, cities, and supply chains shape world politics.
Pascal Boniface
Pascal Boniface, born 1956 in Paris, is a French geopolitician, founder and director of the IRIS think tank, and author of more than eighty books on international relations.
Philip Converse
Philip Converse (1928–2014) was an American political scientist and survey-research pioneer at the University of Michigan who showed that most voters hold weakly organized, unstable opinions.
Quincy Wright
Quincy Wright (1890–1970) was an American political scientist and authority on international law at the University of Chicago, best known for his two-volume A Study of War (1942).
Ralph Schoellhammer
Ralph Schoellhammer (Ralph Gert Schöllhammer), born 1982, is an Austrian political scientist who heads the Center for Applied History and International Relations Theory at Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest.
Raul Hilberg
Raul Hilberg (1926–2007), Austrian-born American political scientist at the University of Vermont, founder of Holocaust studies; author of The Destruction of the European Jews (1961, revised 1985 and 2003), which framed the Holocaust as a bureaucratic process.
Rebecca Slayton
Rebecca Slayton is an American science and technology studies scholar at Cornell University whose research examines how expert knowledge about risk becomes authoritative in international security, especially cybersecurity.
Richard Fenno
Richard Fenno (1926–2020) was an American political scientist at the University of Rochester who studied Congress closely and identified Fenno's Paradox, that voters distrust Congress but reelect their own representatives.
Richard McKelvey
Richard McKelvey (1944–2002) was an American political scientist and social choice theorist at Caltech, best known for his chaos theorems on majority-rule cycling and agenda control.
Robert Axelrod (political scientist)
Robert Axelrod is an American political scientist at the University of Michigan whose Prisoner's Dilemma tournaments and 1984 book The Evolution of Cooperation earned the 2014 National Medal of Science.
Robert Bates (political scientist)
Robert H. Bates is an American political scientist, Eaton Professor at Harvard since 1993, who studies African development and state failure; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Robert D. Putnam
Robert D. Putnam, Harvard political scientist, author of Making Democracy Work (1993) and Bowling Alone (2000), developer of bonding and bridging social capital, Skytte Prize 2006, National Humanities Medal 2013.
Robert Dahl
Robert Dahl (1915–2014) was an American political scientist at Yale University, a founder of pluralist theory and of polyarchy, called the dean of American political scientists.
Robert Jervis
Robert Jervis (1940–2021) was an American political scientist and political psychologist at Columbia University, best known for Perception and Misperception in International Politics and his 1978 security dilemma analysis.
Robert Keohane
Robert Keohane (born 1941) is an American political scientist, emeritus professor at Princeton, known for neoliberal institutionalism and books including After Hegemony (1984) and Power and Interdependence (1977).
Robert Reich
Robert B. Reich, American political economist, Clinton's Secretary of Labor 1993-1997, Dartmouth and Yale Law graduate, Berkeley Goldman School emeritus professor, author of The Work of Nations and 17 other books, Inequality Media co-founder.
Sanjaya Baru
Sanjaya Baru, Indian economist, journalist, and author of The Accidental Prime Minister; media adviser to PM Manmohan Singh 2004-2008; wrote on Narasimha Rao and the 1991 reforms.
Séverine Autesserre
Séverine Autesserre is a political scientist at Barnard College, Columbia University, whose books, including The Trouble with the Congo and The Frontlines of Peace, argue that lasting peace depends on locally led, grassroots initiatives.