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The following is a '''list of notable political scientists'''. [[Political science]] is the scientific study of [[politics]], a social science dealing with systems of governance and power. 

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== A ==
* [[Robert Abelson]] – Yale University psychologist and political scientist with special interests in statistics and logic<ref>{{cite journal| title = In Memoriam: Robert P. Abelson (1928-2005) | publisher = Association for Psychological Science | url = http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2006/december-06/in-memoriam-robert-p-abelson-1928-2005.html | journal = Observer | volume = 19 | issue = 12 | date = December 2006}}</ref>
* [[Henry J. Abraham]] – American scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law and James Hart Professor of Government Emeritus at the University of Virginia<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.hillandwood.com/obituary/henry-abraham?|title=Obituary for Henry J. Abraham at Hill and Wood |website=www.hillandwood.com |language=en |access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nbc29.com/2020/02/27/henry-abraham-longtime-university-virginia-professor-dead/ |title=Henry Abraham, longtime University of Virginia professor, dead at 98 |last=Paschall |first=C. J. |website=www.nbc29.com |language=en-US |access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref>
* [[Alan Abramowitz]] – expert in American politics, political parties, ideological realignment, elections, and voting behavior; professor at [[Emory University]]
* [[Paul R. Abramson (political scientist)|Paul R. Abramson]] – American political scientist known for his research and writing on American, European, and Israeli elections and professor of political science at Michigan State University<ref>{{cite web |date=February 15, 2018 |title=Paul Abramson, Professor Emeritus, Dies |url=http://polisci.msu.edu/paul-abramson-professor-emeritus-dies/ |location=East Lansing, Michigan |publisher=Michigan State University |access-date=November 1, 2018 |archive-date=August 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180827200951/http://polisci.msu.edu/paul-abramson-professor-emeritus-dies/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[As'ad AbuKhalil]] –  Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus.<ref>[http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/3180.htm California State University Political Scientist As'ad Abu Khalil Accuses Al-Jazeera TV of Bias and Conspiracies in Preferential Treatment of "American Propaganda Officials"], MEMRITV, Transcript, Clip No. 3180, October 25, 2011.</ref>
*[[Ibrahim Abu-Lughod]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jun/12/guardianobituaries.internationaleducationnews |title=Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Obituary |work=The Guardian |first=Edward |last=Said |date=12 June 2001 |access-date=24 June 2020}}</ref> – Palestinian-American academic and professor for political science at [[Northwestern University]] for 34 years. 
* [[Brooke Ackerly]] – expert on grounded normative theory, [[feminist theory]], [[Feminism (international relations)|feminist international relations]], and scholar activism, professor at Vanderbilt University<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vanderbilt.edu/political-science/bio/brooke-ackerly|title=Profile|website=Department of Political Science|language=en|access-date=2018-09-18}}</ref>
*[[Martha Ackelsberg]] –  American political scientist and women's studies scholar at Smith College<ref>{{cite web |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/ackelsberg-martha |title=Martha Ackelsberg |publisher=Jewish Women's Archive |access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref>
* [[David Adamany]] – public law specialist and President of [[Temple University]]
* [[Charles R. Adrian]] – American professor of political science who specialized in municipal politics<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-12-08-ve-1479-story.html|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|title=Fizzling of Local Political Recall Drives Reflects Trend in State|date=December 8, 1988|first=Tracey|last=Kaplan}}</ref>
* [[Vinod Aggarwal]] – American political scientist specializing in international political economy<ref>[http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/person_detail.php?person=220 Berkeley Department of Political Science – Faculty – Vinod K. Aggarwal]. Retrieved August 22, 2011.</ref>
* [[Robert Agranoff]] – American political scientist and public administration scholar and author<ref>{{Cite web|last=McGuire|first=Michael|title=Tribute to Robert Agranoff|url=https://academic.oup.com/jpart/pages/agranoff-tribute|access-date=2020-06-17|website=Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Arun Agrawal]] – political scientist in the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/May-1-2018-NAS-Election.html|title=May 1 2018 NAS Election|website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref>
* [[Janet Ajzenstat]] – Canadian political historian at [[McMaster University]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Laforest |first=Guy |author-link=Guy Laforest |title=Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream |location=Montreal |publisher=McGill–Queen's University Press}}</ref>
*[[Adeolu Akande]] – professor of political science at the Igbinedion University
*[[Bolaji Akinyemi]] – Nigerian professor of political science
* [[Bethany Albertson]] – American political psychologist<ref>{{cite web |title=Bethany Albertson |url=https://sites.utexas.edu/balberts/ |website=sites.utexas.edu |access-date=June 7, 2020 |archive-date=June 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608002657/https://sites.utexas.edu/balberts/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Daniel P. Aldrich]] – American political scientist, public policy and Asian studies scholar at Northeastern University<ref>[http://chronicle.com/article/After-Catastrophe/138927/ "After Catastrophe "]. ''The Chronicle Review'',  Scott Carlson, May 6, 2013</ref>
* [[John Aldrich (political scientist)|John Aldrich]] – political parties expert at [[Duke University]], author of ''Why Parties?''
* [[John R. Alford]] – political science professor at Rice University who researches genopolitics<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://journalstar.com/news/local/unl-political-scientist-says-genetics-politics-linked/article_3fcadae7-2547-5236-ae3b-058ce4ac86ec.html |title=UNL political scientist says genetics, politics linked |last=Hansen |first=Matthew |date=2005-07-25 |work=Lincoln Journal-Star |access-date=2019-03-29 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Hayward Alker]] – professor of international relations at the University of Southern California, MIT and Yale who specialized in research methods, core international relations theory, international politics, and security<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/faculty/g-alker.htm |title=USC School of International Relations- Hayward Alker |access-date=2006-08-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060930054506/http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/faculty/g-alker.htm |archive-date=2006-09-30 }}</ref>
* [[Danielle Allen]] – American classicist and political scientist<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=15 April 2011}}</ref>
* [[Graham Allison]] – early proponent of the bureaucratic politics model, author of [[Essence of Decision]], [[national security]] specialist, former Dean of [[Harvard Kennedy  School]] at [[Harvard University]]
* [[Gabriel A. Almond]] – originator of the culturist movement in [[comparative politics]]
* [[Gar Alperovitz]] – political economist
* [[Karen Alter]] – American academic who conducts interdisciplinary work on international law's influence in international and domestic politics<ref>{{cite web|url=http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~kal438/KarenJAlter2/Comparative_International_courts.html|title=Comparative International Courts|publisher=faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu|access-date=2014-04-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=3998488|title=Cambridge Journals Online - Perspectives on Politics - Abstract - The Politics of International Regime Complexity|journal=Perspectives on Politics|volume=7|issue=1|pages=13–24|publisher=journals.cambridge.org|access-date=2014-04-14|doi=10.1017/S1537592709090033|last1=Meunier|first1=Sophie|last2=Alter|first2=Karen J.|date=March 2009|s2cid=56245410|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* [[Scott Althaus]] – professor of political science and communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the director of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the university<ref>{{cite web |title=Scott Althaus |url=https://pol.illinois.edu/directory/profile/salthaus |access-date= |publisher=[[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]]}}</ref>
* [[Micah Altman]] – American social scientist who conducts research in social science informatics<ref>{{cite web|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-6960|title=Micah Altman|website=[[ORCID]]|access-date=2019-08-24}}</ref>
* [[R. Michael Alvarez]] – professor of political science at California Institute of Technology and co-director of the Voting Technology Project<ref>{{cite web | url=http://viaf.org/viaf/69101279/#Alvarez,_R._Michael,_1964-.... | title=R. Michael Alvarez | work=VIAF | access-date=12 April 2016}}</ref>
* [[Tabata Amaral]] – Brazilian political scientist and [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for [[São Paulo]]<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2018-10-08|title=Garota prodígio da periferia, Tabata Amaral é a 6ª deputada federal mais votada em SP|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2018/10/garota-prodigio-da-periferia-tabata-amaral-e-a-sexta-deputada-federal-mais-votada-em-sao-paulo.shtml|journal=Folha de S.Paulo|language=pt-BR}}</ref>
* [[B. R. Ambedkar|Ambedkar]] – jurist, economist and chairman of the Drafting Committee of the [[Constitution of India]]
* [[Thomas Ambrosio]] – professor of political science in the Criminal Justice and Political Science Department at North Dakota State University<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndsu.edu/cjps/|title=Criminal Justice and Political Science|website=www.ndsu.edu|language=en-us|access-date=2018-08-24|archive-date=2019-05-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517185515/https://www.ndsu.edu/cjps/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Kristi Andersen]] – American political scientist at Syracuse University who studies party realignment<ref>{{cite news |title=Andersen nominated by Dems for re-election to Cazenovia town board|url=https://www.eaglenewsonline.com/news/new/government/2017/09/15/andersen-nominated-by-dems-for-re-election-to-cazenovia-town-board/ |date=15 September 2017 |work=Eagle News Online |access-date=9 March 2020}}</ref>
* [[Walter K. Andersen]] – American academic known for his studies of the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh<ref>{{cite book |editor= Ramon H. Myers|title= A U.S. Foreign Policy for Asia: The 1980s and Beyond |publisher= [[Hoover Institution|Hoover Institution Press]] |year= 1982 |isbn= 0-8179-7712-0 |pages= 141 }}</ref>
* [[Benedict Anderson]] – Chinese-born Irish political scientist and historian in the US, author of ''[[Imagined Communities]]''<ref name=":2">{{cite web |url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/12/13/indonesianist-benedict-anderson-dies-79.html |title=Indonesianist Benedict Anderson dies at 79 |publisher=[[Jakarta Post]] |access-date=2015-12-16 |author=Koswaraputra, Dandy |website=www.thejakartapost.com |date=December 13, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151215205258/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/12/13/indonesianist-benedict-anderson-dies-79.html |archive-date=December 15, 2015 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Lisa Anderson]] – American political scientist and the former president of the American University in Cairo<ref name="auto">{{cite web|title=President Lisa Anderson|url=http://www.aucegypt.edu/ABOUT/PRESIDENT/Pages/default.aspx|publisher=The American University in Cairo|access-date=20 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122074220/http://www.aucegypt.edu/about/president/Pages/default.aspx|archive-date=22 November 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Walter Truett Anderson]] – American political scientist, social psychologist, and author of non-fiction books and articles<ref>Satin, Mark (2004).  ''Radical Middle: The Politics We Need Now''.  Westview Press and Basic Books, p. 10.  {{ISBN|978-0-8133-4190-3}}.</ref>
* [[William Anderson (political scientist)|William Anderson]] – specialist in public administration
* [[Mina Andreeva]] – [[Bulgaria]]n political scientist and chief spokesperson for the [[European Commission]]<ref name=MU>{{cite web|url=http://webmagazine.maastrichtuniversity.nl/index.php/research/culture/item/505-the-voice-of-the-european-commission|publisher=Maastricht University|title=The voice of the European Commission|first=Graziella|last=Runchina|date=5 February 2015|access-date=22 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505174126/http://webmagazine.maastrichtuniversity.nl/index.php/research/culture/item/505-the-voice-of-the-european-commission|archive-date=5 May 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Marimba Ani]] – anthropologist and African Studies scholar best known for her work ''Yurugu''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://womenoftheafricandiaspora.com/2009/01/02/a-look-at-professor-marimba-ani/ |title=Women of the African Diaspora |work=womenoftheafricandiaspora.com |year=2011 |access-date=July 4, 2011 |archive-date=October 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015210208/http://womenoftheafricandiaspora.com/2009/01/02/a-look-at-professor-marimba-ani/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Stephen Ansolabehere]] – professor of government at Harvard University<ref>{{cite web | url=http://scholar.harvard.edu/sansolabehere/home | title=Stephen Ansolabehere | work=Harvard University | access-date=2 June 2016}}</ref>
* [[William Antholis]] – Greek-American political scientist, director and CEO of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.brookings.edu/experts/antholisw|title = William J. Antholis|website = The Brookings Institution| date=5 February 2016 |access-date = 2016-04-15}}</ref>
* [[David Apter]] – American political scientist and sociologist who was Henry J. Heinz Professor of Comparative Political and Social Development and senior research scientist at Yale University<ref>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=22 April 2011}}</ref>
* [[Asher Arian]] – American and Israeli political scientist who was an expert on Politics of Israel and election studies<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ines.tau.ac.il/asher_arian.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927062005/http://ines.tau.ac.il/asher_arian.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 27, 2013 |title=Prof. Asher Arian 1938-2010 |last=Shamir |first=Michal |date=July 2010 |publisher=The Israel National Election Studies |access-date=September 21, 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/1999/11/16/cuny-middle-east-experts-available-for-comment/ |title=CUNY Middle East Experts Available For Comment |date=November 6, 1999 |publisher=City University of New York |access-date=March 12, 2017 |archive-date=March 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313125219/http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/1999/11/16/cuny-middle-east-experts-available-for-comment/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Hadley Arkes]] – American political scientist and the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions emeritus at Amherst College<ref>[https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/colloquia/americanfounding/members Committee for the American Founding] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002233552/https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/colloquia/americanfounding/members |date=2012-10-02 }}, Amherst College.</ref><ref>[http://www.eppc.org/scholars/scholarID.70/scholar.asp Hadley Arkes, Senior Fellow,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325112509/http://www.eppc.org/scholars/scholarID.70/scholar.asp |date=2009-03-25 }},  [[Ethics and Public Policy Center]].</ref>
* [[John Alexander Armstrong]] – Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.polisci.wisc.edu/news/default.aspx?id=71 | title=Memorial resolution for Professor Emeritus John Armstrong | publisher=University of Wisconsin System | access-date=5 June 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307053930/http://www.polisci.wisc.edu/news/default.aspx?id=71 | archive-date=7 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Larry Arnhart]] – Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northern Illinois University<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www3.niu.edu/~ti0uxa1/Field_Biopolitics/Arnhart.htm |title=Prof. Larry Arnhart |access-date=2008-05-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060906204115/http://www3.niu.edu/~ti0uxa1/Field_Biopolitics/Arnhart.htm |archive-date=2006-09-06 }}]</ref>
* [[Richard Ashcraft]] – American political theorist and professor of political science at UCLA<ref>{{cite journal |first=Victor |last=Wolfenstein |title=In Memoriam to Richard Ashcraft, 1938–1995 |journal=[[Political Theory (journal)|Political Theory]] |volume=24 |issue=3 |year=1996 |page=373 |doi=10.1177/0090591796024003002 |s2cid=144301998 }}</ref>
* [[Herb Asher]] – professor emeritus of political science at Ohio State University<ref>{{cite web | url = http://polisci.osu.edu/sites/polisci.osu.edu/files/AsherCV.pdf | title = Herb Asher CV | publisher = [[Ohio State University]] | date = January 2007}}</ref>
* [[Richard K. Ashley]] – postmodernist scholar of international relations<ref>{{Cite web | title = Richard Ashley – Arizona State University | work = asu.pure.elsevier.com | access-date = 6 April 2017 | url = https://asu.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/richard-ashley }}{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[Ronald Asmus]] – diplomat and political analyst and then senior think tank policy analyst<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/europe/04asmus.html Obituary of Ronald Asmus, New York Times]</ref>
* [[Scott Atran]] – American-French political and cultural anthropologist<ref>{{cite news|last=Bower |first=Bruce |url= https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-studies-explore-why-ordinary-people-turn-terrorist |title=New studies explore why ordinary people turn terrorist |work= [[Science News]] |date=June 23, 2016 |access-date=June 20, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Sharon Wright Austin]] – Director of the [[African-American Studies]] Program and a professor of political science at the [[University of Florida]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://afam.clas.ufl.edu/dir_message/ |date=2019 | website=University of Florida African-American Studies |title=Dr. Sharon Austin | publisher=University of Florida |access-date=25 December 2019}}</ref>
* [[Deborah Avant]] – American political scientist at the University of Denver<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.du.edu/korbel/faculty/avant.html |title=Deborah Avant &#124; Josef Korbel School &#124; University of Denver |publisher=Du.edu |access-date=2014-03-28}}</ref>
* [[Bill Avery]] – politician from the state of Nebraska and retired political scientist who specializes in international trade and foreign relations<ref>{{cite news|title=Nebraska Unicameral Legislature |work=Sen. Bill Avery |url=http://news.legislature.ne.gov/dist28 |access-date=March 12, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124074851/http://news.legislature.ne.gov/dist28/ |archive-date=January 24, 2010 }}</ref>
* [[Robert Axelrod (political scientist)|Robert Axelrod]] – expert on [[game theory]] and [[complex systems|complexity theory]], wrote extensively on the [[Prisoner's Dilemma]], former president of [[American Political Science Association]]
* [[Julia Azari]] – American political scientist, professor of political science at Marquette University and contributor to ''FiveThirtyEight''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.marquette.edu/political-science/directory/julia-azari.php |title=Julia Azari, PhD |publisher=Marquette University |access-date=April 9, 2020}}</ref>
* [[Jeremy Azrael]] – American political scientist known for his expertise on the economy of the Soviet Union<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-mar-27-me-passings27.s2-story.html |title=PASSINGS / Jeremy R. Azrael |last1=Staff |first1=Times |date=2009-03-27 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=2018-07-22 |last2=Reports |first2=Wire |language=en-US |issn=0458-3035}}</ref>

== B ==
* [[Andrew Bacevich]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/andrew-j-bacevich/andrew|title=Boston University – Andrew J. Bacevich – The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies|work=bu.edu}}</ref> – American historian specializing in [[international relations]], [[security studies]], [[American foreign policy]], and [[List of diplomatic missions of the United States|American diplomatic]] and [[Military history of the United States|military history]]
* [[Gawdat Bahgat]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thepenn.org/news/iup-professor-gawdat-bahgat-to-bid-farewell-further-career-1.836492 |title=IUP Professor Gawdat Bahgat to bid farewell, further career |publisher=The Penn |date=30 October 2009 |access-date=14 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716061153/http://www.thepenn.org/news/iup-professor-gawdat-bahgat-to-bid-farewell-further-career-1.836492 |archive-date=16 July 2011 }}</ref> – Gawdat Bahgat is a professor of [[political science]] at the [[National Defense University (Washington, D.C.)|National Defense University]]
* [[Kathleen Cordelia Bailey]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/10/07/state-dept-unit-to-monitor-soviet-disinformation/8ece912b-40d2-4ac9-bca7-df00a1fe46e9/|title=State Dept. Unit to Monitor Soviet Disinformation|last1=Ottaway|first1=David B.|date=October 7, 1986|newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref>
* [[Fatih Baja]] – Gar Yunis University teacher and member of the [[National Transitional Council]] in charge of political affairs
* [[Susan Baker]] – Irish scholar of environmental governance in the European Union and ecofeminism, gender and the environment at [[Cardiff University]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/38140-baker-susan#tab-research|title=Professor Susan Baker: Research|publisher=Cardiff University|access-date=31 May 2017}}</ref>
* [[Lisa Baldez]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/lisa-baldez |title=Lisa Baldez |publisher=Dartmouth College |date=October 2018 |access-date=18 April 2020}}</ref> – Lisa Baldez is an American [[political scientist]] and scholar of [[Latin American Studies]].
* [[Michel Balinski]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~billera/misc/BalinskiBio/MichelBalinskiCV.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~billera/misc/BalinskiBio/MichelBalinskiCV.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Balinksi CV |publisher=Cornell University}}</ref> – Michel Louis Balinski was an American and French [[applied mathematician]], [[economist]], [[operations research analyst]] and [[political scientist]]
* [[Moniz Bandeira]] – Brazilian writer, professor, political scientist, historian and poet
* [[Mary Jo Bane]] – Thornton Bradshaw Professor at [[Harvard Kennedy School]], and formerly the [[Malcolm H. Wiener|Malcolm Wiener]] Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.<ref>{{cite web |title=Their brilliant careers: Bane and Nye reach emeritus status |url=https://www.hks.harvard.edu/more/alumni/hks-magazine/their-brilliant-careers-bane-and-nye-reach-emeritus-status |website=hks.harvard.edu |access-date=November 18, 2019 |year=2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mary Jo Bane |url=https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/mary-jo-bane |access-date=2024-11-19 |website=www.hks.harvard.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Edward C. Banfield]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=May 17, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Benjamin Barber]] – proponent of [[participatory democracy]] and local governance teaching at the [[University of Maryland School of Public Policy]]
* [[James David Barber]] – developed a classification system of the personality types of [[President of the United States|American presidents]]
* [[Stephen Barber (political scientist)|Stephen Barber]] – noted for his work on political strategy and [[political economy]], author of ''Political Strategy''
* [[Line Bareiro]] – Paraguayan political scientist, civil rights activist and feminist<ref>{{cite book|author=R. Andrew Nickson|title=Historical Dictionary of Paraguay|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Ji-CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA472|year=2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-0-8108-7964-5|page=81|chapter=Bareiro, Line (1950–)}}</ref>
* [[Joel Barkan]] – (1941-2014) was an American political scientist with an expertise in political development in Africa.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/joel-d-barkan-professor-and-scholar/2014/02/03/b197be5c-8d06-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.html |title=Joel D. Barkan, professor and scholar |newspaper=The Washington Post |first=Bart |last=Barnes |date=3 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Author: Joel D. Barkan |url=https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/joel-d-barkan/ |access-date=2024-11-19 |website=Journal of Democracy |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Lucius Barker]] – (1928-2020) was the [[Edna Fischel Gellhorn]] Professor and chair of the political science department at [[Washington University in St. Louis]], and then the [[William B. Munro|William Bennett Munro]] Professor of Political Science at [[Stanford University]].<ref>{{cite interview|url=https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7x3f4kms4p |last=Barker |first=Lucius |subject-link=Lucius Barker |interviewer=William Daniels |title=Interview with Lucius J. Barker, April 19, 1991 |work=African American Political Scientists Oral History Project |publisher=Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries |date=April 19, 1991}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Political scientist Lucius J. Barker has died at 92 |url=https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2020/06/lucius-j-barker-political-scientist-broke-racial-barriers-academia-died-92 |access-date=2024-11-19 |website=news.stanford.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Michael Barkun]] - Professor Emeritus of political science at [[Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs]], [[Syracuse University]], specializing in political and religious [[extremism]] and the relationship between [[Religious violence|religion and violence]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Michael Barkun faculty listing|url=http://www1.maxwell.syr.edu/faculty.aspx?id=6442451250|publisher=Maxwell School of Syracuse University|access-date=13 June 2015|date=2009-03-17|archive-date=2020-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022183509/https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/faculty.aspx?id=6442451250|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Barkun, Professor Emeritus |url=https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/directory/michael-barkun |access-date=2024-11-19 |website=Maxwell School |language=en}}</ref>
* [[A. Doak Barnett]]<ref>{{cite journal| first = Patrick E. |last = Tyler| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/19/world/a-doak-barnett-dies-china-scholar-77.html?pagewanted=all| title =  A. Doak Barnett Dies - China Scholar, 77| journal = New York Times| date = March 19, 1999}}</ref> – (1921–1999) was an American political scientist known for his expertise on U.S.-China relations and Chinese politics
* [[Michael N. Barnett|Michael Barnett]] – specialist in international relations
* [[Thomas P.M. Barnett]] – security strategist
* [[Simion Bărnuţiu]] – noted for his work on political strategy in Austria and Romania
* [[Bethany Barratt]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Barratt|first=Bethany|title=Human Rights and Foreign Aid: For Love or Money|year=2007|publisher=Routledge|location=London}}</ref> – Political scientist researching global human rights and ethics in international relations; works at Roosevelt University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bethany Barratt |url=https://humansandnature.org/bethany-barratt/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Center for Humans & Nature |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Matt A. Barreto]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/people/matthew-a-barreto|title=UCLA Department of Political Science|website=www.polisci.ucla.edu|access-date=2017-01-04}}</ref> – Professor at UCLA focusing on Latino political behavior, voting rights, and public opinion; co-founded the UCLA Voting Rights Project<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-29 |title=Matt Barreto |url=https://latino.ucla.edu/person/matt-barreto/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Latino Policy & Politics Institute |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[David M. Barrett]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www14.homepage.villanova.edu/david.barrett/ |title=profile}}</ref> – Professor at Villanova University specializing in U.S. intelligence and foreign policy during the Cold War<ref>{{Cite web |last=ExpertFile |title=David Barrett, PhD Professor of Political Science {{!}} College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Expert with Villanova University {{!}} ExpertFile |url=https://expertfile.com/experts/david.barrett/david-barrett-phd |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=expertfile.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Larry Bartels]] – [[democracy]] and [[voting]] expert at [[Vanderbilt University]]
* [[Robert V. Bartlett]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.uvm.edu/~polisci/?Page=RobertBartlett.php |title=Robert V. Bartlett |publisher=uvm.edu |access-date=December 18, 2016}}</ref> – Political scientist at the University of Vermont, known for environmental policy and sustainability research.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Robert V. Bartlett |url=https://www.uvm.edu/gund/profiles/robert-v-bartlett |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=legacy.drup2.uvm.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Gad Barzilai]] – Law and Politics, Human Rights and Politics, Communities and Law at [[University of Washington]]
* [[Sylvia Bashevkin]] – Canadian scholar of women and politics<ref>{{cite web|url=http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~sbashevk/bashevkin_bio.htm|title=University of Toronto biography|access-date=2019-12-28|archive-date=2016-08-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829110705/http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~sbashevk/bashevkin_bio.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Stephen Baskerville]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/guestlist.php |title=The Political Cesspool Guest List |access-date=February 24, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222232315/http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/guestlist.php |archive-date=February 22, 2012 }}</ref> – Scholar examining political aspects of family law and its social impact, including custody and divorce systems.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Freedom (IIRF) |first=International Institute for Religious |date=2022-01-15 |title=Prof. Stephen Baskerville {{!}} International Institute for Religious Freedom |url=https://iirf.global/about/team/prof-stephen-baskerville/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=iirf.global |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Amrita Basu]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amherst.edu/news/news_releases/2017/03/amrita-basu-then-and-now|title=Amrita Basu: Then and Now|date=24 March 2017|website=Amherst}}</ref> – A professor at Amherst College specializing in South Asian politics and feminist movements, known for works like ''Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Basu |first=Amrita |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/violent-conjunctures-in-democratic-india/123470B6ED2203B37764648B187A1DE0 |title=Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India |date=2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-08963-1 |series=Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics |location=Cambridge}}</ref>
* [[Robert Bates (political scientist)|Robert Bates]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Harvard-Legon Partnership flourishes |url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=67756 |work=GhanaHomePage |date=October 14, 2004 |access-date=October 20, 2009 }}</ref> – A Harvard professor focusing on comparative politics and African development, notable for his analysis of political institutions and agricultural policy<ref>{{Cite web |title=Robert H. Bates |url=https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/robert-h-bates |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=aaas.fas.harvard.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Frank Baumgartner]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.unc.edu/~fbaum/ |title=Frank Baumgartner |publisher=unc.edu |access-date=April 9, 2017}}</ref> – A political scientist at UNC-Chapel Hill, known for research on policy processes and agenda-setting theories, such as co-authoring ''Agendas and Instability in American Politics''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frank Baumgartner |url=https://fbaum.unc.edu/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=fbaum.unc.edu}}</ref>
* [[Phineas Baxandall]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uspirg.org/staff/xxp/phineas-baxandall|title=Staff|access-date=2020-06-25|archive-date=2020-06-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625095958/https://uspirg.org/staff/xxp/phineas-baxandall|url-status=dead}}</ref> – A scholar with research interests in public finance and transportation policy, contributing to governmental budgeting practices<ref>{{Cite web |last=mbpcadmin |title=Phineas Baxandall |url=https://massbudget.org/about-us/staff/phineas-baxandall/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Mass. Budget and Policy Center |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[David H. Bayley]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Obituary: David H. Bayley |url=https://www.mcpeekfuneralhome.com/obituary/David-Bayley |website=McPeek-Hoekstra Funeral Home |access-date=May 25, 2020|date=May 10, 2020}}</ref> – A criminologist at SUNY Albany known for studies on policing and international criminal justice reform<ref>{{Cite web |title=Former SCJ Dean is Recalled as Renowned Scholar on Police Reform and Wonderful Colleague {{!}} University at Albany |url=https://www.albany.edu/news-center/news/2020-former-scj-dean-recalled-renowned-scholar-police-reform-and-wonderful |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.albany.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Elmira Bayrasli]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/people/elmira-bayrasli|title=Elmira Bayrasli {{!}} Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs|website=www.carnegiecouncil.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-23}}</ref> – An expert on global entrepreneurship and innovation, co-founder of ''Foreign Policy Interrupted'', and author of ''From the Other Side of the World''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elmira Bayrasli {{!}} Turkish Philanthropy Funds |url=https://www.tpfund.org/our-people/elmira-bayrasli/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Robert J. Beck]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjb3v/rjb.html |title=Foreign Affairs Online}}</ref> – A professor focusing on international law and the use of force, contributing  to legal and ethical debates in global politics<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Robert J. Beck {{!}} Professional Website |url=https://sites.uwm.edu/rjbeck/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Holmes Beckwith]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A04E3DD103FEE3ABC4B53DFB266838A639EDE|title=Syracuse Teacher Slays College Teacher and Kills Himself|date=April 3, 1921|work=The New York Times|access-date=20 November 2009}}</ref> – (1884–1921): An economist and academic specializing in fiscal policy and public finance, known for his contributions to economic theory<ref>{{Cite web |last=Collier |first=Irwin |date=2020-12-05 |title=Columbia. Economics Ph.D. alumnus who killed his Dean and self at Syracuse. Beckwith, 1913 |url=https://www.irwincollier.com/columbia-economics-ph-d-alumnus-who-killed-his-dean-and-self-at-syracuse-beckwith-1913/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Economics in the Rear-View Mirror |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Francis Beer]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.colorado.edu/polisci/people/faculty-emeritus/francis-beer |title=Francis Beer| date=11 February 2016 }}</ref> – A political scientist who received his M.A. from Berkeley and A.B. from Harvard, he explored language and metaphors in international relations, and their role in conflict and peace<ref>{{Cite web |title=Francis A. Beer {{!}} Political Science {{!}} University of Colorado Boulder |url=https://www.colorado.edu/polisci/people/faculty-emeritus/francis-beer |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.colorado.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Samuel Beer]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Grimes |first=William. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/us/19beer.html |title=Samuel H. Beer, Authority on British Government, Dies at 97 |work=The New York Times |date=18 April 2009 |access-date=19 April 2009}}</ref> – (1911–2009): A Harvard professor specializing in British politics and federalism, focused mainly in comparative political studies<ref>{{Cite web |last=harvardgazette |date=2009-04-16 |title=Samuel H. Beer, Harvard scholar, dies at 97 |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/04/samuel-h-beer-harvard-scholar-dies-at-97/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Harvard Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Edward Beiser]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jvhri.org/detail/1739.html |title=Dr. Edward Beiser |work=The Jewish Voice and Herald |date=Oct 2, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091017030021/http://www.jvhri.org/detail/1739.html |archive-date=October 17, 2009 }}</ref> – A constitutional scholar and law professor at Brown University,  recognized for his work in medical ethics<ref>{{Cite web |title=Farewell, Ed Beiser |url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2010-03-23/farewell-ed-beiser |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.brownalumnimagazine.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Linda Royster Beito]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=590 |title=Linda Beito|newspaper=The Independent Institute }}</ref> – A professor and dean at Stillman College, co-author of ''T.R.M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, and Civil Rights Pioneer''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Linda Royster Beito |url=https://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=590 |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=The Independent Institute}}</ref>
* [[Charles Beitz]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=May 30, 2011}}</ref> – A political theorist at Princeton University, known for contributions to international justice and human rights theory<ref>{{Cite web |title=Charles R. Beitz {{!}} University Center for Human Values |url=https://uchv.princeton.edu/people/charles-r-beitz |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=uchv.princeton.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Aaron Belkin]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.palmcenter.org/about|title=Palm Center|work=palmcenter.org}}</ref> – A political scientist focusing on gender, sexuality, and military policy, particularly through his work on LGBT rights in the military<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aaron Belkin {{!}} Department of Political Science |url=https://politicalscience.sfsu.edu/people/aaron-belkin |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=politicalscience.sfsu.edu}}</ref>
* [[Adolphus G. Belk Jr.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/2007_4442645/campaign-2008-clinton-and-obama-test-black-women-s.html|title=Archives - Houston Chronicle|website=Chron.com|access-date=19 August 2017}}</ref> – A professor at Winthrop University specializing in African American politics, public policy, and race relations<ref>{{Cite web |title=CAS Faculty Profile - Belk, Adolphus {{!}} Winthrop University |url=https://www.winthrop.edu/cas/faculty/belk-adolphus.aspx |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.winthrop.edu}}</ref>
* [[Alon Ben-Meir]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Ridge's Record: Color Alerts and Mixed Security Reviews |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/01/politics/01home.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 1, 2004 |access-date=2009-04-06 }}</ref> – A Middle East expert, advocating for peace and conflict resolution, with extensive writings on Arab-Israeli relations<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alon Ben-Meir - Alon Ben-Meir |url=https://alonben-meir.com/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Daniel Benjamin]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Daniel Benjamin |url=https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/124422.htm |publisher=State Department |access-date=6 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224142856/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/124422.htm |archive-date=February 24, 2012 }}</ref> – A diplomat and academic expert in counterterrorism, serving as the State Department’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism from 2009 to 2012<ref>{{Cite web |title=Daniel Benjamin |url=https://www.brookings.edu/people/daniel-benjamin/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Brookings |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi]] – [[Moroccans|Moroccan]] political scientist, author and professor at the [[University of Lausanne]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://economia.ma/content/mounia-bennani-chraibi|title=Mounia Bennani-Chraibi|date=2015-07-15|website=Economia|language=FR|access-date=2019-10-05}}{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[Linda L. M. Bennett]]<ref>[http://www.usi.edu/acaffrs/BennettVita.htm Linda Bennett's ''curriculum vitae''.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517044140/http://www.usi.edu/acaffrs/BennettVita.htm |date=2008-05-17 }}</ref> – An American political scientist and former president of Indiana University, she focused on higher education policy and university administration.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Linda L. M. Bennett - University of Southern Indiana |url=https://www.usi.edu/about/history-and-culture/dr-linda-l-m-bennett |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.usi.edu}}</ref>
* [[W. Lance Bennett]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Lance Bennett |url=http://www.com.washington.edu/bennett/ |publisher=University of Washington Department of Communication |access-date=10 December 2018 |archive-date=1 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101102533/http://www.com.washington.edu/bennett/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> – A professor at the University of Washington, specializing in political communication and civic engagement, and author of influential works on digital media's role in democracy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=W. Lance Bennett {{!}} Department of Political Science {{!}} University of Washington |url=https://www.polisci.washington.edu/people/w-lance-bennett |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.polisci.washington.edu}}</ref>
* [[William Benoit]]<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Benoit, William L. 1953- |encyclopedia=Contemporary Authors |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/benoit-william-l-1953 |date=2009 |access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref> – A scholar in communication studies, he developed the functional theory of political campaign discourse and has published extensively on political communication.<ref>{{Cite web |title=William L. Benoit {{!}} Communication |url=https://communication.missouri.edu/people/benoit |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=communication.missouri.edu}}</ref>
* [[Myriam Benraad]]<ref>{{cite web |first=Jean-Dominique |last=Merchet |url=https://www.lopinion.fr/edition/international/en-irak-al-qaida-capitalise-mecontentement-sunnites-7868 |language=fr |title=" En Irak, "Al-Qaïda capitalise sur le mécontentement des sunnites" " |work=L'Opinion |date=6 January 2014 |access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref> – A French political scientist focusing on Middle Eastern politics, with expertise in jihadism and political violence in Iraq.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Faculty Spotlight: Myriam Benraad |url=https://www.schiller.edu/blog/faculty-spotlight-myriam-benraad/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Schiller International University |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Richard Bensel]]<ref>Orren and Skowronek. ''The Search for American Political Development''; Daniel P. Carpenter. ''The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy''</ref> – A political scientist at Cornell University known for his work on the political economy of the United States and historical institutionalism.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Richard F Bensel {{!}} Department of Government |url=https://government.cornell.edu/richard-f-bensel |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=government.cornell.edu}}</ref>
* [[Arthur F. Bentley]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Arthur F. Bentley, American political scientist|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arthur-F-Bentley|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2020-05-04}}</ref> – (1870–1957): An American political philosopher who emphasized group theory in political science, author of ''The Process of Government''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-12 |title=Arthur F. Bentley {{!}} Philosophy of Pragmatism, Social Theory, Interdisciplinary Research {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arthur-F-Bentley |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Suzanne Berger]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=June 16, 2011}}</ref> – A professor at MIT, specializing in comparative politics and industrial policy, with influential research on globalization's effects on economies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Suzanne Berger {{!}} People {{!}} MIT Political Science |url=https://polisci.mit.edu/people/suzanne-berger |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=polisci.mit.edu}}</ref>
* [[Adam Berinsky]]<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-berinsky/poll-shows-false-obama-be_b_714503.html | work=Huffington Post | first=Adam | last=Berinsky | title=Poll Shows False Obama Beliefs a Function of Partisanship | date=May 25, 2011}}</ref> – Political science professor at MIT, focusing on political behavior and public opinion, particularly in misinformation and media influence.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adam Berinsky {{!}} People {{!}} MIT Political Science |url=https://polisci.mit.edu/people/adam-berinsky |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=polisci.mit.edu}}</ref>
* [[Peter Berkowitz]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/faculty/cv/berkowitz.pdf|title=Peter Berkowitz curriculum vitae|publisher=George Mason University School of Law|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404031043/http://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/faculty/cv/berkowitz.pdf|archive-date=April 4, 2012|access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> – A scholar in political theory, specializing in liberalism and constitutional law, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peter Berkowitz |url=https://www.hoover.org/profiles/peter-berkowitz |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Hoover Institution |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Ilan Berman]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ndu.edu/cisa/index.cfm?secID=627&pageID=119&type=section |title=Welcome to CISA |publisher=Ndu.edu |access-date=May 23, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527175509/http://www.ndu.edu/cisa/index.cfm?secID=627&pageID=119&type=section |archive-date=May 27, 2010 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> – Vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, focusing on security and geopolitical issues, particularly in the Middle East and Iran.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ilan I. Berman {{!}} American Foreign Policy Council |url=https://www.afpc.org/about/experts/ilan-i-berman |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.afpc.org}}</ref>
* [[Marshall Berman]]<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/152453/marshall-berman|title = All That Is Solid Melts Into Berman: The Unkempt Emperor of New York Intellectuals|date = November 13, 2013|website = Tablet|last = Davidzon|first = Vladislav}}</ref> – A philosopher and Marxist humanist, known for his work ''All That Is Solid Melts into Air'', exploring modernity and urban culture.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Homberger |first=Eric |date=2013-09-27 |title=Marshall Berman obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/27/marshall-berman |access-date=2024-11-21 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
* [[Sheri Berman]]<ref>{{Citation |url=https://polisci.barnard.edu/profiles/sheri-berman|title=Barnard College- Sheri Berman}}</ref> – A professor at Barnard College, focusing on European politics, democracy, and the role of political parties in societal transformation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sheri Berman {{!}} Barnard Political Science |url=https://polisci.barnard.edu/profiles/sheri-berman |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=polisci.barnard.edu}}</ref>
* [[Nancy Bermeo]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Prof Nancy Bermeo|url=https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/People/sites/Nancy.Bermeo/SitePages/Biography.aspx|website=Nuffield College|access-date=31 May 2017|archive-date=4 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504045228/https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/People/sites/Nancy.Bermeo/SitePages/Biography.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> – A political scientist at Princeton University, her research delves into democratization, political violence, and inequality.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nancy Bermeo {{!}} Office of the Dean of the Faculty |url=https://dof.princeton.edu/people/nancy-bermeo |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=dof.princeton.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[William D. Berry (political scientist)|William D. Berry]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://coss.fsu.edu/polisci/node/89 |title=William Berry |access-date=2020-06-25 |archive-date=2020-06-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627222800/https://coss.fsu.edu/polisci/node/89 |url-status=dead }}</ref> – A professor at Florida State University, renowned for his contributions to quantitative political methodology.<ref>{{Cite web |title=William Berry |url=https://gradworld.fsu.edu/graduates/william-berry/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=GradWorld FSU |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Michele Betsill]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://polisci.colostate.edu/author/mbetsill/ |title=Michele Betsill |publisher=Colorado State University |year=2019 |access-date=1 March 2020 |archive-date=2 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302230252/https://polisci.colostate.edu/author/mbetsill/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> – A political scientist specializing in environmental governance and climate change policy, based at Colorado State University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michele Merrill Betsill |url=https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/michele-merrill-betsill |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=University of Copenhagen Research Portal |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* [[Richard K. Betts]] – prize-winning author in a number of political science areas
* [[Mark Bevir]] – professor of political science and director of the Center for British Studies at the [[University of California]], Berkeley
* [[Seweryn Bialer]]<ref>{{cite web|url= https://catalog.osaarchivum.org/catalog/j6dom2zR |title=Transcripts and Analyses of Seweryn Bialer |publisher=[[Blinken Open Society Archives]] |access-date=8 September 2021}}</ref> – (1926–2019) A political scientist specializing in Soviet and Russian studies, Bialer was a professor at Columbia University and published seminal works on Soviet political elites, including "Stalin’s Successors" (1980) and "The Soviet Paradox" (1986). <ref>{{Cite web |title=Seweryn Bialer (1926-2019) {{!}} The Harriman Institute |url=https://harriman.columbia.edu/person/seweryn-bialer/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=harriman.columbia.edu}}</ref>
* [[Thomas J. Biersteker]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=B|title=Membership Roster - Council on Foreign Relations|date=2010-08-31|access-date=2016-11-27|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100831093806/http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=B|archive-date=2010-08-31}}</ref> – Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Biersteker is known for his work on international political economy, particularly regarding the impact of international sanctions on state behavior<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thomas BIERSTEKER {{!}} IHEID |url=https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/discover-institute/thomas-biersteker |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.graduateinstitute.ch |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Leonard Binder]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=July 20, 2011}}</ref> – Binder was a professor at the University of Chicago and is known for his studies on Middle Eastern politics, especially in Egypt, and his influential work "The Ideology of Arab Politics"<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-09 |title=Leonard Binder {{!}} American Academy of Arts and Sciences |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/leonard-binder |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.amacad.org |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Sarah Binder]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://politicalscience.columbian.gwu.edu/sarah-binder|title=Sarah A. Binder {{!}} Department of Political Science {{!}} The George Washington University|website=politicalscience.columbian.gwu.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-12-04}}</ref> – A professor at George Washington University, Binder is recognized for her research on legislative politics, including the U.S. Congress, and has published  on political parties, policymaking, and gridlock.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Binder, Sarah A. {{!}} Department of Political Science {{!}} Columbian College of Arts & Sciences {{!}} The George Washington University |url=https://politicalscience.columbian.gwu.edu/sarah-binder |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Department of Political Science {{!}} Columbian College of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Thomas A. Birkland]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://chass.ncsu.edu/people/tabirkla |title=Thomas Birkland}}</ref> – A professor at North Carolina State University, Birkland is known for his work on public policy, mainly the study of disaster policy and how crises affect policy decisions<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tom Birkland |url=https://chass.ncsu.edu/people/tabirkla/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=College of Humanities and Social Sciences |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Sarah Birch]] – professor in comparative politics at [[King's College London]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Sarah Birch FBA FRSE|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/sarah-birch/|website=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref>
* [[Thomas A. Birkland]] – author of ''Lessons of Disaster''
* [[Rachel Bitecofer]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Freedlander |first1=David |title=An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/06/rachel-bitecofer-profile-election-forecasting-new-theory-108944 |access-date=12 June 2020 |work=Politico |date=6 February 2020}}</ref> – A political scientist specializing in American elections, she is known for her work on voter behavior and political forecasting<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rachel Bitecofer |url=https://www.theshipmanagency.com/rachel-bitecofer |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=The Shipman Agency |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Duncan Black]] – Spatial voting theorist<ref>[[Eamonn Butler]], ''Public Choice: A Primer'', London: [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], 2012, p. 32 [http://www.iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/files/IEA%20Public%20Choice%20web%20complete%2029.1.12.pdf]</ref>
* [[Earl Black (political scientist)|Earl Black]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://politicalscience.rice.edu/earl-black |title=Earl Black |access-date=2020-06-25 |archive-date=2020-06-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627183702/https://politicalscience.rice.edu/earl-black |url-status=dead }}</ref> – Political scientist at Rice University, Black focuses on Southern politics and American political behavior, contributing extensively to studies of party systems and electoral trends<ref>{{Cite web |title=Earl Black |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Earl-Black/22465156 |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Simon & Schuster |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Merle Black]]<ref>{{cite news | title=Obama's racial problems transcend Wright | date=March 18, 2008 | url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9111.html | work=Politico | access-date=2008-03-18}}</ref> – A political scientist with a focus on American politics and the South, Black is well-known for his research on political realignment and public opinion
* [[Chris Blattman]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chrisblattman.com/about/|title = About me|last = Blattman|first = Chris| date=29 March 2010 }}</ref> – A professor at the University of Chicago, Blattman studies global conflict, poverty, and violence, focusing on developing countries like Uganda and Colombia<ref>{{Cite web |title=Christopher Blattman {{!}} The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy |url=https://harris.uchicago.edu/directory/christopher-blattman |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=harris.uchicago.edu}}</ref>
* [[Hans T. Blokland]] – author of ''Freedom and Culture in Western Society'' and ''Modernization and its political consequences''
* [[Jean Blondel]] – comparative politics at [[University of Siena]], emeritus at [[European University Institute]]
* [[Lincoln P. Bloomfield]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://news.mit.edu/2013/lincoln-palmer-bloomfield-professor-emeritus-political-science-dies-93 |title=Lincoln Palmer Bloomfield, professor emeritus of political science, dies at 93 |date=November 5, 2013 |access-date=April 22, 2019 |publisher=[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]}}</ref> – A professor emeritus who contributed to American foreign policy analysis and conflict resolution studies<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr. • Stimson Center |url=https://www.stimson.org/ppl/lincoln-p-bloomfield-jr/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Stimson Center |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Virgil Blum]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/SuperC/C-1-14s2-VCB.htm | title=Special Collections and University Archives // Archives // Raynor Memorial Libraries // Marquette University }}</ref> – A political scientist known for his contributions to international relations and U.S. foreign policy studies<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fliss |first=William |date=2022-04-01 |title=Born in Defiance: The Public Career of Virgil C. Blum, S.J. |url=https://epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations_mu/1217/ |journal=Dissertations (1934 -)}}</ref>
* [[Mark Blyth]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Blyth, Mark, 1967- |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/n2002100994 |website=Library of Congress Authorities |access-date=20 September 2018}}</ref> – A professor at Brown University, Blyth specializes in political economy and macroeconomics, particularly on the influence of finance<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-28 |title=Mark Blyth {{!}} Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs |url=https://home.watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/watson-faculty/mark-blyth |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=home.watson.brown.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Lawrence D. Bobo|Lawrence Bobo]] – professor at Harvard University, Bobo focuses on race, ethnicity, and American political behavior, particularly the intersection of race and politics in the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lawrence D. Bobo |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/bobo/home |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=scholar.harvard.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Alan Bock]]<ref>Justin Raimondo, [http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/05/18/alan-bock-rip/ RIP, Alan Bock], [[Antiwar.com]], May 18, 2011.</ref> – A journalist and political commentator known for his work on U.S. politics and foreign policy<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-12-03 |title=Alan Bock was the Register's moral lodestar |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2023/12/03/alan-bock-was-the-registers-moral-lodestar/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Orange County Register |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Sophie Body-Gendrot]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Michlin|first=Monica|title=Sophie Body-Gendrot|url=https://afea.fr/news/in-memoriam/in-memoriam-sophie-body-gendrot/1705/|publisher=Association française d'Etudes Américaines|language=fr|date=24 September 2018|access-date=20 August 2022}}</ref> – A French political scientist with expertise in urban violence and public policy in cities<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sophie Body-Gendrot (1942-2018) {{!}} RC21 Research Committee 21 |url=https://www.rc21.org/en/sophie-body-gendrot-1942-2018/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Vernon Bogdanor]] – A British political scientist at King's College London, known for his work on British politics, the constitution, and public administration<ref>{{Cite web |last=London |first=King's College |date=2023-01-03 |title=Vernon Bogdanor |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/vernon-bogdanor |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=King's College London |language=en}}</ref>
* [[B. Anthony Bogues]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.brown.edu/initiatives/slavery-and-justice/people |title=B. Anthony Bogues |publisher=brown.edu |access-date=January 29, 2017}}</ref> – A professor at Brown University, Bogues works on issues of race, empire, and political theory, focusing on the Caribbean and its global context<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bogues, Barrymore |url=https://vivo.brown.edu/display/bbogues |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=vivo.brown.edu}}</ref>
* [[Jean-Charles de Borda]] – 18th-century [[mathematician]] who devised the [[Borda count]]
* [[David Bositis]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jointcenter.org/index.php/news_room/joint_center_scholars/david_a_bositis|title=David A. Bositis|access-date=November 7, 2008|publisher=Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies|year=2008|author1=Joint Center for Political|author2=Economic Studies|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081106101229/http://www.jointcenter.org/index.php/news_room/joint_center_scholars/david_a_bositis|archive-date=November 6, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> – A political analyst and scholar specializing in African American politics and public opinion.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David A. Bositis {{!}} C-SPAN.org |url=https://www.c-span.org/person/david-a-bositis/23203/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.c-span.org}}</ref>
* [[Eileen Hunt Botting]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/eileen-hunt-botting|title=Eileen Hunt Botting|last=University of Notre Dame|first=Marketing Communications|website=Department of Political Science|language=en|access-date=2020-01-22|archive-date=2020-02-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200201025427/https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/eileen-hunt-botting/|url-status=dead}}</ref> – A political theorist focused on the history of political thought, feminist theory, and environmental justice.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eileen Botting (1993) |url=https://johnian.joh.cam.ac.uk/news/eileen-botting-1993/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Johnian |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* [[Catherine Boone]]<ref>[http://www.lse.ac.uk/government/whosWho/Academic%20profiles/cboone@lseacuk/home.aspx Professor Catherine Boone.] London School of Economics. Retrieved 22 June 2015.</ref> – A political scientist known for her research on state development, ethnic politics, and the political economy of Africa.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Science |first=London School of Economics and Political |title=Catherine Boone |url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/international-development/people/catherine-boone |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=London School of Economics and Political Science |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* [[Ammar Bouhouche]] – Algerian political and military leader and academic political scientist<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://193.194.83.84:82/post_grad/revue/annale_5_fr.pdf|title=Annales de l'Université d'Alger|publisher=Office des Publication Universitaires|year=1991|location=OPU Algiers|pages=91–108|access-date=2017-01-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202084945/http://193.194.83.84:82/post_grad/revue/annale_5_fr.pdf|archive-date=2017-02-02|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo:680|title=The return and reintegration of the Algerian refugees following the independence of Algeria|last=Bouhouche|first=Ammar|publisher=United Nations Research Institute for Social Development|year=1991|location=RSP Documentation center|access-date=2020-06-18|archive-date=2010-11-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101102013952/http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo:680|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Terry Bouricius]]<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.publicdeliberation.net/jpd/vol9/iss1/art11|title=Democracy Through Multi-Body Sortition: Athenian Lessons for the Modern Day|first=Terrill|last=Bouricius|journal=Journal of Deliberative Democracy|year=2020|volume=9|access-date=2013-05-13|publisher=[[Journal of Public Deliberation]]|doi=10.16997/jdd.156|doi-access=free}}</ref> – An expert on political campaigns, public policy, and Vermont politics, particularly the impact of reform movements on local governance.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Terrill Bouricius - Academia.edu |url=https://independent.academia.edu/TerrillBouricius |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=independent.academia.edu}}</ref>
* [[Donna Lee Bowen]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807340 | title=Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, Third Edition | access-date=2020-06-25 | archive-date=2018-12-15 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215115205/http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807340 | url-status=dead }}</ref> – A scholar focused on comparative politics, specifically Middle East politics and political development in postcolonial societies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bowen, Donna Lee {{!}} Religious Studies Center |url=https://rsc.byu.edu/author/bowen-donna-lee |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=rsc.byu.edu}}</ref>
* [[Shaun Bowler]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92020614.html |title=Bowler, Shaun, 1958- |website=Library of Congress Name Authority File |access-date=2019-04-01}}</ref> – A political scientist who examines political behavior, public opinion, and voting systems, particularly in the United States and Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Comparative Politics Faculty {{!}} Department of Political Science |url=https://politicalscience.ucr.edu/comparative-politics-faculty |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=politicalscience.ucr.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier]]<ref>{{cite web|title=PRISM|url=https://polisci.osu.edu/research/prism|website=OSU Department of Political Science|publisher=[[Ohio State University]]|access-date=February 19, 2018|archive-date=February 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220212525/https://polisci.osu.edu/research/prism|url-status=dead}}</ref> – A prominent scholar in American politics, known for her work on political methodology and the study of political behavior.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Janet Box-Steffensmeier |url=https://apsanet.org/about/governance/apsa-2016-council-nominations/janet-box-steffensmeier/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=American Political Science Association (APSA) |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Mark A. Boyer]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://provost.uconn.edu/board-of-trustees-distinguished-professor/|title=Office of the Provost, University of Connecticut|date=26 April 2021}}</ref> – Focuses on international relations, comparative politics, and political institutions, particularly in the context of war and conflict.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Emily |first=Clark |date=2024-06-17 |title=Mark Boyer {{!}} Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies |url=https://geography-sustainability-community-urban.uconn.edu/person/mark-boyer/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Jules Boykoff]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Sochi-Games-are-apt-venue-for-athlete-activism-5169993.php |title=Sochi Games Are Apt Venue for Athlete Activism|date=24 January 2014}}</ref> – Specializes in the politics of sport, with a focus on media, political protests, and activism.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-02-12 |title=Jules Boykoff, PhD |url=https://www.pacificu.edu/about/directory/people/jules-boykoff-phd |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Pacific University |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Paul Bracken]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://som.yale.edu/faculty/paul-bracken|title=Paul Bracken|website=Yale School of Management|date=July 2013|language=en|access-date=2018-02-02}}</ref> – A scholar in international security, specializing in nuclear strategy, global military affairs, and international political economy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul Bracken {{!}} Yale School of Management |url=https://som.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/paul-bracken |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=som.yale.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[David W. Brady]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/david-w-brady|title=David W. Brady}}</ref> – Known for his research on American political institutions, political parties, and election studies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David W. Brady |url=https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/david-w-brady |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Stanford Graduate School of Business |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Henry E. Brady]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gspp.berkeley.edu/directories/faculty/henry-brady |publisher=Goldman School of Public Policy faculty, UCBerkeley |title=Henry E. Brady}}</ref> – A political scientist focused on American political behavior, public opinion, and political parties.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Henry Brady |url=https://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/person/hbradyberkeleyedu |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=polisci.berkeley.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Ralph Braibanti]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://today.duke.edu/2005/12/braibanti.html |title=Ralph Braibanti, Expert on Islamic-Western Relations, Dies |date=2 December 2005 |website=Duke Today |publisher=Office of News & Communications, [[Duke University]] |access-date=19 March 2018}}</ref> – Known for his work on South Asian politics and comparative political systems.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-12-02 |title=Ralph Braibanti, Expert on Islamic-Western Relations, Dies {{!}} Duke Today |url=https://today.duke.edu/2005/12/braibanti.html |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=today.duke.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Steven Brams]] – expert on [[voting systems]]
* [[Laurie Brand]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Laurie Brand |url=http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/Pres%20Addresses/Brand.htm |publisher=USC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070405200715/http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/Pres%20Addresses/Brand.htm |archive-date=2007-04-05 }}</ref> – Specializes in Middle Eastern politics and international relations, particularly issues related to state sovereignty and political economy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Laurie Brand |url=https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/laurie-brand/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=USC Dornsife |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Paul Brass]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Paul R Brass Profile |url=http://www.sagepub.in/authorDetails.nav?contribId=524299 |access-date=2014-08-16 |work=SAGE}}</ref> – A scholar of comparative politics, focusing on ethnic politics, political violence, and Indian politics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul R. Brass - AMESA |url=https://amesa.library.columbia.edu/scholars/617?locale=en |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=amesa.library.columbia.edu}}</ref>
* [[Ahron Bregman]] – expert on the [[Arab–Israeli conflict]]
* [[Ian Bremmer]] – political risk specialist
* [[Emma_Briant]] - expert on propaganda and information warfare, Associate Professor of News and Political Communication at Monash University.<ref>{{cite web|title=Emma L Briant|url=https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/emma-briant}}</ref>
* [[Janine Brodie]] – Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Political Economy and Social Governance at the University of Alberta<ref>{{cite web |title=Janine Brodie |url=https://carleton.ca/fpa/story/janine-brodie/ |website=carleton.ca |access-date=June 4, 2019 |archive-date=June 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605233806/https://carleton.ca/fpa/story/janine-brodie/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Stephen Brooks (academic)|Stephen Brooks]] – international relations scholar
* [[Lara Brown]] – American political scientist and director of the [[The Graduate School of Political Management|Graduate School of Political Management]] at the [[George Washington University]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gspm.gwu.edu/dr-lara-brown|title=Dr. Lara Brown {{!}} Graduate School of Political Management {{!}} The George Washington University|website=gspm.gwu.edu|access-date=2018-11-26|archive-date=2018-11-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118122741/https://gspm.gwu.edu/dr-lara-brown|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Nadia E. Brown]] – uses intersectionality to study identity politics, legislative studies, and Black women's studies<ref>{{cite web |url=https://politicalsciencenow.com/member-of-the-month-dr-nadia-e-brown-purdue-university/ |title=APSA Member of the Month: Dr. Nadia E. Brown, Purdue University |date=19 April 2019 |publisher=American Political Science Association |work=Political Science Now}}</ref>
* [[Robert X. Browning]] – specialist in American politics and chief archivist for [[C-SPAN]]
* [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] – Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman
* [[Bruce Bueno de Mesquita]] – pioneering game theorist with applications to international relations, author of [[selectorate theory]]
* [[Ralph Bunche]] – American political scientist and diplomat; received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine
* [[Walter Dean Burnham]] – expert in the field of realigning elections, emeritus at [[University of Texas at Austin]]
* [[David Butler (academic)|David Butler]] – pioneer of modern British political science, invented the concept of [[Swing (politics)|swing]]

== C ==
*[[William A. Callahan]]
* [[Melani Cammett]] – Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and director of the [[Weatherhead Center for International Affairs]], [[Harvard University]]
* [[Linda Cardinal]] – [[University Professor]] and a [[Canada Research Chair]] in Canadian Francophonie and Public Policies at the [[University of Ottawa]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Honneurs bien mérités pour Linda Cardinal et Paul Le Vay |url=https://l-express.ca/honneurs-bien-merites-pour-linda-cardinal-et-paul-le-vay/ |website=l-express.ca |access-date=June 25, 2019 |language=fr |date=May 25, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Ira Carmen]] – co-founder of the social science subdiscipline of genetics and politics
* [[Edward Hallett Carr]] – international relations theorist
* [[Alfredo Castillero Hoyos]] – democracy and human rights; former member of the [[United Nations]]'s [[Human Rights Committee]]
* [[George Catlin (political scientist)|George Catlin]] (1896–1979) –  English political scientist and philosopher; strong proponent of Anglo-America cooperation; worked for many years as a professor at Cornell University
*[[Jocelyne Cesari]] – French political scientist
* [[Pamela Chasek]] – international [[environmental policy]] expert<ref>{{cite web|title=Pamela Chasek Ph.D.|url=https://manhattan.edu/faculty/pamelachasek|publisher=Manhattan College profile|access-date=22 January 2015}}</ref>
* [[Partha Chatterjee (scholar)|Partha Chatterjee]] – Indian [[postcolonial]] critic, political and social scientist
* [[Rumman Chowdhury]] – Bengali-American political scientist and data scientist at Accenture<ref>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|year=2017|url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7jx0190s|title=Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Impact of the Metropolitan-Military Complex|publisher=University of California, San Diego|website=escholarship.org|oclc=992172239|first=Rumman|last=Chowdhury}}</ref>
* [[Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri]] – international relations, Indology at [[Institute of Commonwealth Studies]]
* [[Walter Clemens|Walter C. Clemens]] - Associate at Harvard Davis Center for Russian and European Studies and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Boston University,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Walter Clemens |url=https://www.bu.edu/polisci/profile/walter-clemens/}}</ref> author of books on US relations with Russia, China and North Korea, an on complexity science and world affairs. 
* [[Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook]] – Director and CEO of the [[German Council on Foreign Relations]] and co-founder and executive director of the Future of Diplomacy project, at [[Harvard University]]’s [[Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook|url=https://dgap.org/de/user/24681/cathryn-cluever-ashbrook|access-date=2021-06-14|website=dgap.org|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook|url=https://www.belfercenter.org/person/cathryn-cluver-ashbrook|access-date=2021-06-14|website=Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs|language=en}}</ref>
*[[John Coakley]] – specialist in ethnic conflict and Irish politics
* [[Benjamin Cohen (professor)|Benjamin Cohen]] – leader in the field of international political economy
* [[Elizabeth F. Cohen]] – American expert on citizenship and immigration<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/psc/Cohen,_Elizabeth_F_/|title = Elizabeth Cohen, Professor, Political Science|date = 11 September 2019|access-date = 28 December 2019|archive-date = 8 January 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200108085956/https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/psc/Cohen,_Elizabeth_F_/|url-status = dead}}</ref>
* [[Stephen P. Cohen]] – Middle East specialist
* [[James Smoot Coleman]] – early Africanist, founded the UCLA African Studies Center
* [[Marquis de Condorcet]] – 18th-century [[mathematician]] and [[philosopher]] who contributed the often used "Condorcet criterion" and devised the concept of a [[Condorcet method]]
* [[Ralph W. Conant]] – author of ''The Prospects for Revolution'' and ''Toward a More Perfect Union: The Governance of Metropolitan America''
* [[Philip Converse]] – public opinion scholar, author of ''The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics''
* [[Timothy E. Cook]] – politics and media
* [[Clyde Coombs]] – voting systems expert, designed "Coombs' method"
* [[Morgan Lyon Cotti]] – professor, associate director of the [[Hinckley Institute of Politics]]<ref>Horn, Taylor. [https://www.abc4.com/gmu/interview-taking-a-closer-look-at-president-joe-bidens-relief-bill-and-his-address-to-the-nation/ "Interview: Taking a closer look at President Joe Biden’s relief bill and his address to the nation"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210313001052/https://www.abc4.com/gmu/interview-taking-a-closer-look-at-president-joe-bidens-relief-bill-and-his-address-to-the-nation/ |date=2021-03-13 }}, ''[[KTVX|ABC 4 News]]'', 12 March 2021. Retrieved on 4 April 2021.</ref>
* [[Philip Cowley]] – author of ''Revolts and Rebellions''
* [[Edvin Kanka Cudic|Edvin Kanka Ćudić]] – Bosnian political scientist and human rights activist, founder and coordinator of [[Association for Social Research and Communications|UDIK]] in Bosnia and Herzegovina

== D ==
* [[Alison Dagnes]] – American specialist in politics and the media, politics and humor, and political scandal<ref>{{cite web|title=Alison Dagnes Homepage|url=http://www.ship.edu/Political_Science/Alison_Dagnes/|website=Shippensburg University}}</ref>
* [[Robert A. Dahl]] – American politics specialist, author of ''On Democracy''
* [[Rafaela Dancygier]] – expert in comparative politics, especially the implications of ethnic diversity in democracies; IBM Chair in International Studies at Princeton University
* [[Jouke de Vries]] – [[Frisians|Frisian]] politician and professor at the [[university of Leiden]]
* [[Vera Micheles Dean]] – Russian American political scientist, former head of research for the Foreign Policy Association, and leading international affairs authority in the 1940s and 1950s<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/12/archives/vera-mictieles-dean-69dies-international-a-flairs-specialist.html|title=Vera Micheles Dean, 69, dies, International-Affairs Specialist|date=October 12, 1972|work=New York Times|access-date=19 March 2013}}</ref>
*[[Ronald Deibert]] – Canadian political scientist and founder and director of the [[Citizen Lab]] at the University of Toronto
* [[Fatima Denton]] – Ethiopian political scientist, Officer-in-Charge of the Special Initiatives Division and the Co-ordinator for the African Climate Policy Centre of the [[United Nations Economic Commission for Africa]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/index.php?page=view&type=6&nr=60&menu=1359&template=375|title=Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) .:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform|website=sustainabledevelopment.un.org|access-date=2019-09-25}}</ref>
* [[Daniel Deudney]] – writer and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University; author of ''Bounding Power:  Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village''
* [[Karl Deutsch]] – political scientist, focused on political communication
* [[Larry Diamond]] – comparative democratization specialist; professor at [[Stanford University]]
* [[Thomas Diez]] – chair in International Relations at the [[University of Birmingham]]
* [[Michelle Dion]] – professor in the department of political science and the Senator William McMaster Chair in Gender and Methodology at [[McMaster University]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://politicalsciencenow.com/meet-2020-apsr-editor-michelle-l-dion-of-mcmaster-university/ |title=Meet 2020 APSR Editor, Michelle L. Dion of McMaster University |date=3 September 2019 |access-date=3 January 2020 |publisher=American Political Science Association}}</ref>
* [[John DiIulio]] – American politics expert at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]
* [[Ruth Dixon]] – winner of the [[Louis Brownlow]] Book Award of the [[National Academy of Public Administration (United States)|National Academy of Public Administration]]<ref name="Blueprint">{{cite news |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/Blueprint_February2016.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/Blueprint_February2016.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Brownlow book award |work=Blueprint |publisher=[[University of Oxford]] |date=February 2016 |page=6 |access-date=19 August 2020 }}</ref> and the [[W. J. M. Mackenzie]] award of the [[Political Studies Association]].<ref name="PSAAwards">{{cite web |url=https://www.psa.ac.uk/psa/news/psa-awards-public-academics-media-culture-and-politicians-have-all-shaped-extraordinary |title=PSA Awards: the public, academics, media, culture and politicians have all shaped an extraordinary year in politics |work=News |publisher=[[Political Studies Association]] |date=30 November 2016 |access-date=19 August 2020 }}</ref>
* [[Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]] (also known as [[Lewis Carroll]]) – author of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' and professor of mathematics at the [[University of Oxford]]; devised [[Dodgson's method]] of [[voting system|voting]]
* [[Robert Donaldson (political scientist)|Robert Donaldson]] – professor at [[University of Tulsa]] and specialist in US/Russian foreign policy 
* [[Anthony Downs]] – contributed to democratic theory, elections studies
* [[Donald Downs]] – professor at University of Wisconsin; researcher for Independent Institute
* [[Michael W. Doyle]] – international relations theorist, author of ''Empires''
* [[Daniel Drezner]] – professor at [[Tufts University]], specializing in [[international politics]]
* [[Murray Dry]] – professor at [[Middlebury College]], specializing in [[constitutional law]]
* [[John Dryzek]] – professor at the [[Australian National University]], specializing in [[deliberative democracy]] and [[environmental politics]]
* [[John Dunn (political scientist)|John Dunn]] – political theorist at the [[University of Cambridge]]
* [[Maurice Duverger]] – French [[lawyer]] and [[sociologist]] responsible for [[Duverger's law]]
* [[Rand Dyck]] – Canadian politics expert and professor at [[Carleton University]]
* [[Thomas R. Dye]] – [[Elitism|elite theory]] vs. [[Pluralism (political theory)|pluralism]]; author of ''The Irony of Democracy'' and ''Who's Running America?''

== E ==
* [[David Easton]] – originator of systemic theory
* [[Susan Eaton]] – American political scientist and workers' rights activist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.belfercenter.org/person/susan-eaton|title=Susan Eaton|website=Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs|date=June 1992 }}</ref>
* [[Daniel J. Elazar]] – American federalism and political culture scholar, founder of the [[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]], political science professor at Bar Ilan (Israel) and [[Temple University]]
* [[Keisha Lynne Ellis]] – Bahamian political scientist<ref>{{cite web|title=Brussels School of International Studies: Graduate Studies|url=https://www.kent.ac.uk/brussels/documents/prospectus.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.kent.ac.uk/brussels/documents/prospectus.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|website=Brussels School of International Studies|access-date=9 February 2018}}</ref>
* [[Jean Bethke Elshtain]] – American political philosopher focusing on gender, ethics, American democracy, and [[international relations]]
* [[Jon Elster]] – [[Norway|Norwegian]] social and [[political theorist]] authored works in the [[philosophy of social science]] and [[rational choice theory]] and a notable proponent of [[Analytical Marxism]]
* [[Jadwiga Emilewicz]] – Polish politician, political scientist, and government minister<ref>{{cite web|title=Prezydent powołał nowych ministrów|url=http://www.prezydent.pl/aktualnosci/nominacje/art,69,prezydent-powolal-nowych-ministrow.html|agency=prezydent.pl|date=9 January 2018|access-date=2018-01-09|archive-date=2018-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109125137/http://www.prezydent.pl/aktualnosci/nominacje/art,69,prezydent-powolal-nowych-ministrow.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Cynthia Enloe]] – international relations scholar focusing on [[Feminism in international relations]], editor for such scholarly journals as ''[[Signs (journal)|Signs]]'' and the ''[[International Feminist Journal of Politics]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/nov/06/feminist-laura-bates-cynthia-enloe|title='Never be the most feminist person you know' – Laura Bates meets Cynthia Enloe|first=Laura|last=Bates|date=6 November 2017|access-date=7 November 2017|website=Theguardian.com}}</ref>
* [[Eqbal Ahmad|Eqbal Ahmed]] – Pakistani political scientist and Third World scholer

== F ==
* [[C. Christine Fair]] – American political scientist who studies [[counter-terrorism]] and [[South Asia]]n topics<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/indias-move-kashmir-unpacking-domestic-and-international-motivations-and-implications|title=India's Move in Kashmir: Unpacking the Domestic and International Motivations and Implications|work=Lawfare |date=August 12, 2019 |last1=Fair |first1=C. }}</ref>
* [[James D. Fearon]] – American political scientist focusing on theory of civil wars, international bargaining, war's inefficiency puzzle and audience costs<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wm.edu/offices/itpir/_documents/trip/trip_around_the_world_2011.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.wm.edu/offices/itpir/_documents/trip/trip_around_the_world_2011.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=TRIP AROUND THE WORLD: Teaching, Research, and Policy Views of International Relations Faculty in 20 Countries}}</ref>
* [[Peter D. Feaver]] – international security expert
* [[Dafydd Fell]] – British political scientist
* [[David Fellman]] – Constitutional scholar
* [[Richard Fenno]] – Congress scholar, author of ''Home Style: House Members in their Districts''
* [[Thomas Ferguson (academic)|Thomas Ferguson]] – politics and economics
* [[Joel S. Fetzer]] – comparative politics specialist; distinguished professor at [[Pepperdine University]]
* [[Samuel Finer]] – academic and author on political science and history of government
* [[Norman Finkelstein]] – author on political science, notable for ''The Holocaust Industry''
* [[Martha Finnemore]] – international relations and international organizations scholar<ref>As listed in [http://search.library.tu.ac.th/ Thamassat University library catalog] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506080019/http://search.library.tu.ac.th/ |date=2015-05-06 }}.</ref>
* [[Morris P. Fiorina]] – American politics; proposed retrospective vote theory
* [[Peter Fishburn]] – operations analysis and probability theory expert
* [[Keith Fitzgerald]] – immigration politics expert
* [[Naika Foroutan]] – German political scientist studying immigration and integration<ref name="kurzbiographie">{{cite web|title=Dr. Naika Foroutan|periodical=Heymat.hu-berlin.de|url=http://www.heymat.hu-berlin.de/team/foroutan/kurzbio_foroutan|access-date=2015-02-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319214726/http://www.heymat.hu-berlin.de/team/foroutan/kurzbio_foroutan|archive-date=2011-03-19}}</ref>
* [[James H. Fowler]] – expert on political participation, the evolution of cooperation, and social network theory ([[UCSD]])
* [[Daniel P. Franklin]] – American politics; politics of the presidency and Politics and Film
* [[Annette Baker Fox]] – international relations scholar<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Service-to-remember-longtime-volunteer-3419154.php | title=Service to remember longtime volunteer | newspaper=[[Greenwich Time (newspaper)|Greenwich Time]] | date=March 19, 2012 | access-date=December 28, 2019 | archive-date=July 3, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703163026/https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Service-to-remember-longtime-volunteer-3419154.php | url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[William T. R. Fox]] – international relations theorist, coiner of the term "superpower"
* [[Ernst Fraenkel (political scientist)|Ernst Fraenkel]] – German political scientist and one of the founding fathers of German political science after World War II<ref>Ladwig-Winters, Simone (2009).  ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=nEPlAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA7 Ernst Fraenkel: Ein politisches Leben]''. Frankfurt am Main: Campus. p. 7.</ref>
* [[Doris Fuchs (scientist)]] – German political scientist and Professor of International Relations and Sustainable Development at the [[University of Münster]]<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.uni-muenster.de/Fuchs/en/mitarbeitende/fuchs.html|title=Prof. Doris Fuchs, Ph.D.|publisher=University of Münster|access-date=2019-07-26}}. See under "CV".</ref>
* [[Francis Fukuyama]] – international political theory and biopolitics
* [[Archon Fung]]

== G ==
* [[Michael Gallagher (academic)|Michael Gallagher]]
* [[Krenar Gashi]] – Ghent University political scientist and former ''Financial Times'' reporter<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ceus.ugent.be/researchers/krenar-gashi |title=Official Website of the Centre for EU Studies}}</ref>
* [[Lisa García Bedolla]] – [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]] professor, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, and dean of the Graduate Division 
* [[Scott Gates (academic)|Scott Gates]] – specialist in international relations
* [[Barbara Geddes]] – scholar of authoritarianism and authoritarian regimes<ref>{{cite web |title=Barbara Geddes |date=11 September 2019 |url=https://polisci.ucla.edu/people/barbara-geddes |publisher=University of California at Los Angeles}}</ref> 
* [[Anthony Giddens]] – political sociologist originator of the Third Way
* [[Elisabeth Gidengil]] – Hiram Mills Professor of political science at McGill University studying political engagement and Canadian politics<ref>{{cite news |work=ECPR News |title=New editorial appointments at the ECPR |publisher=European Consortium for Political Research |volume=5 |issue=2 |url=https://ecpr.eu/Filestore/Files/Publications/ECPRNews/ECPRNews_5.2.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://ecpr.eu/Filestore/Files/Publications/ECPRNews/ECPRNews_5.2.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |year=2015 |access-date=18 January 2020 |page=12}}</ref>
* [[Robert Gilpin]] – international political economy specialist
* [[Benjamin Ginsberg (political scientist)|Benjamin Ginsberg]] – professor at [[Johns Hopkins University]] focusing on American politics
* [[Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson]] – Professor of Political Science at the [[University of Iceland]] focusing on [[political theory]]
* [[Marianne Githens]] – political scientist, feminist, author, professor, and co-founder of the Women's Study Program at [[Goucher College]]<ref>{{cite web|title=LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93106416.html|website=id.loc.gov|access-date=10 March 2018}}</ref>
* [[Betty Glad]] – American researcher of the American presidency and American foreign policy<ref name="PS">{{cite journal | last1=Sabia | first1=Daniel | last2=Woliver | first2=Laura R. | title=BETTY GLAD | journal=PS: Political Science & Politics | publisher=Cambridge University Press | volume=43 | issue=4 | year=2010 | issn=1049-0965 | doi=10.1017/s1049096510001459 | pages=802–803 | doi-access=free }}</ref>
* [[Siri Gloppen]] – Norwegian political scientist<ref>[http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/soer-afrika/soer-afrika-setter-inn-haeren-for-aa-beskytte-innvandrere/a/23437435/ Sør-Afrika setter inn hæren for å beskytte innvandrere]</ref>
* [[Sheldon Goldman]] – expert on American federal courts; professor at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]]
* [[Grigorii Golosov]] – expert on political institutions and electoral systems, professor at [[European University at Saint Petersburg]]
* [[David F. Gordon]] – political risk specialist, former US [[Director of Policy Planning]]
* [[Harold Foote Gosnell]] – research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties in political science
* [[Marie Gottschalk]] – American political scientist known for her work on [[mass incarceration]] in the United States<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedp.com/article/2017/01/marie-gottschalk-penn|date=2017-01-26|title=This Penn professor was cited in a SCOTUS decision and featured in an Oscar-nominated film|last=Imburgia|first=Stephen|access-date=2017-10-21|language=en-us}}</ref>
* [[Heather Grabbe]] – political scientist, activist, and director of the Open Society European Policy Institute in [[Brussels]], Belgium<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/people/heather-grabbe|title=Heather Grabbe|website=Open Society Foundations|access-date=2019-03-15|archive-date=2019-04-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408211154/https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/people/heather-grabbe|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Doris Graber]] – American pioneer in the field of political communication<ref>{{cite news |title=Doris Graber |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=doris-graber&pid=188277493&fhid=2020 |access-date=11 December 2018 |work=Chicago Tribune |publisher=Legacy.com |date=25 February 2018}}</ref>
* [[Colin S. Gray|Colin Gray]] – international security
* [[Donald Green]] – Professor of Political Science at Columbia University focusing on [[field experiments]] in American politics
* [[Jane Green (political scientist)|Jane Green]] – professor of political science at the [[University of Manchester]] and co-director of the [[British Election Study]] who specialised in [[public opinion]] and [[electoral behaviour]]<ref>[http://www.britishelectionstudy.com/meet-the-bes-team/ Meet the BES team: Professor Jane Green.] British Election Study. Retrieved 19 April 2017.</ref>
* [[Liah Greenfeld]] – Israeli, American, and Russian social scientist<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/opinion/28brooks.html|title=Opinion {{!}} The Grand Delusion|last=Brooks|first=David|work=The New York Times |date=28 September 2006 |access-date=2018-07-26|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Anna Grzymala]] – American political scientist, currently at [[Stanford University]] and previously also the Ronald Eileen Weiser Professor at [[University of Michigan]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/news/political-science-welcomes-new-faculty-member-anna-grzymala-busse |title=New Faculty Member, Anna Grzymala |publisher=stanford.edu |access-date=April 14, 2017 |archive-date=April 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415201319/https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/news/political-science-welcomes-new-faculty-member-anna-grzymala-busse |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Rhiana Gunn-Wright]] – American policy director<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jbhe.com/2012/11/three-african-american-women-win-rhodes-scholarship/|title=Three African American Women Win Rhodes Scholarships|date=2012-11-19|website=The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education|access-date=2019-11-20}}</ref>
* [[Yaprak Gürsoy]] – Turkish political scientist and associate professor in the Department of International Relations at the [[Istanbul Bilgi University]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/directory/people/yaprak-gursoy/ |title=Istanbul Bilgi University Directory - Yaprak Gürsoy |access-date=2019-12-28 |archive-date=2017-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614085810/http://www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/directory/people/yaprak-gursoy |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Ted Robert Gurr]] – specialist on conflict and violence
* [[Amy Gutmann]] – political theory expert; president of the University of Pennsylvania (2004–present)

== H ==
* [[Michael Haas (political scientist)|Michael Haas]] – Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai'i
* [[Jacob Hacker]] – Professor of Political Science at Yale University
* [[Henrike Hahn]] – German political scientist and politician who is a [[Member of the European Parliament]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197457/HENRIKE_HAHN/home|title=Home {{!}} Henrike HAHN {{!}} MEPs {{!}} European Parliament|website=www.europarl.europa.eu|language=en|access-date=2019-07-30}}</ref>
* [[Paul Y. Hammond]] – American foreign policy and national security specialist at University of Pittsburgh and elsewhere
* [[Roger D. Hansen]] – American political scientist and professor
* [[Harry Harding (political scientist)|Harry Harding]] – [[China]] specialist
* [[Thomas Hare (political scientist)|Thomas Hare]] – devised [[single transferable vote]] (also known as Hare's method)
* [[Jeremy Harris (politician)|Jeremy Harris]] – American politics specialist
* [[Michael Hart (Oxford)|Michael Hart]] – British twentieth-century politics specialist
* [[Louis Hartz]] – American author of ''The Liberal Tradition in America''
* [[Mary Hawkesworth]] – American political scientist and Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and [[Gender Studies]] at [[Rutgers University]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Hawkesworth, Mary|url=http://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/faculty/core-faculty/135-mary-hawkesworth|publisher=Rutgers, The State of New Jersey|access-date=9 May 2013|archive-date=26 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126084016/http://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/faculty/core-faculty/135-mary-hawkesworth|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Colin Hay (political scientist)|Colin Hay]] – influential British political scientist
* [[Clarissa Rile Hayward]] – professor at Washington University in St. Louis studying the theory of political power and political identities<ref>{{cite web |url=https://artsci.wustl.edu/faculty-staff/clarissa-rile-hayward |title=Clarissa Rile Hayward Profile |date=24 July 2019 |publisher=Washington University in St. Louis Arts and Science Faculty |access-date=5 January 2020}}</ref>
* [[Katharine Hayhoe]] – [[atmospheric sciences|atmospheric scientist]] and professor of political science at [[Texas Tech University]] and director of the Climate Science Center<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/secretlife/scientists/katharine-hayhoe|title=Katharine Hayhoe profile|work=[[Nova (American TV series)]]|access-date=September 8, 2013|archive-date=September 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911001735/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/secretlife/scientists/katharine-hayhoe/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Susan Hekman]] – professor of [[political science]] and director of the graduate humanities program at the [[University of Texas at Arlington|University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)]]<ref name=Congress>{{cite web |title= Hekman, Susan J. |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82103996.html |publisher= Library of Congress |access-date= 16 January 2015 |quote= (Susan J. Hekman) data sht. (b. 02-28-49) }}</ref>
* [[Marc Hetherington]] – author of ''Why Trust Matters''; offered a new participation paradigm
* [[Christopher J. Hill]] – international relations scholar, Professor and director of the Cambridge Centre of International Studies
* [[Roger Hilsman]] – aide to [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Columbia University]] professor, and prolific author
* [[Nancy Hirschmann]] – Professor of Politics  at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] working in the intersection of political theory and public policy
* [[Sara Hobolt]] – Danish political scientist who specialises in European politics and electoral behaviour<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Sara B Hobolt|url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/staff/academicStaff/Hobolt/Home.aspx|website=European Institute|publisher=The London School of Economics and Political Science|access-date=6 August 2017}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Holbrook]] – public opinion and elections research, author ''Do Campaigns Matter?''
* [[Christopher Hood]] – author of [[The Art of the State]] and [[A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?]]
* [[Donald L. Horowitz]] – pioneered political science models for assessing ethnic conflict
* [[Mala Htun]] – studied women's rights and the politics of race and ethnicity in a comparative context<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.unm.edu/news/unm-s-mala-htun-among-recipients-of-new-andrew-carnegie-fellowship |title=UNM's Mala Htun receives new Andrew Carnegie Fellowship |work=University of New Mexico Newsroom |publisher=University of New Mexico |date=22 April 2015 |access-date=24 January 2020 |archive-date=24 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124213058/https://news.unm.edu/news/unm-s-mala-htun-among-recipients-of-new-andrew-carnegie-fellowship |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Evelyne Huber]] – studies democracy and redistribution with a focus on Latin America<ref name=apsa>{{cite web |url=https://www.apsanet.org/ABOUT/Governance/2017-Council-Nominations/Evelyne-Huber |title=Evelyne Huber |publisher=American Political Science Association |year=2017 |access-date=23 January 2020}}</ref>
* [[Mark Huddleston]] – former President of [[Ohio Wesleyan University]] and President of the [[University of New Hampshire]]
* [[Samuel P. Huntington]] – author of ''[[Clash of Civilizations]]'' and ''[[The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century]]''; comparativist

== I ==
* [[Kancha Ilaiah]] – [[Dalit]] scholar and social scientist
* [[Ronald Inglehart]] – professor at the University of Michigan; founder of the [[World Values Survey]]
* [[Shanto Iyengar]] – American political scientist

== J ==
* [[Lawrence R. Jacobs]] – American political scientist and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the [[University of Minnesota]]
* [[Gary Jacobson]] – Constitutional law expert
* [[Ashley E. Jardina]] – American political scientist and assistant professor of political science at Duke University<ref name="dukechronicle2019">{{Cite news|url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/03/white-identity-american-politics-duke-university-ashley-jardina|title=What does white identity mean in American politics today? Professor's new book delves into topic|work=[[Duke Chronicle]]|date=2019-03-15}}</ref>
* [[Attahiru Jega]] – Nigerian political scientists specialised in [[political development]]. former [[Independent National Electoral Commission (Nigeria)|INEC]] chairman and also Former vice Chancellor of [[Bayero University]]. 
* [[Robert Jervis]] – international security specialist
* [[Chalmers Johnson]] – comparative theorist
* [[Jason A. Johnson]] – campaign management
* [[Loch K. Johnson]] – United States intelligence expert
* [[Timothy R. Johnson]], political science and law; noted for his work covering the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]
* [[Charles O. Jones]] – specialist in American politics
* [[Bertrand de Jouvenel]] – French political scientist; co-founder of [[Mont Pelerin Society]]

== K ==
*[[Kelly Kadera]] – professor at [[University of Iowa]] studying international relations, [[democratic backsliding]], and gender in politics using dynamic models<ref>{{cite web |url=https://politicalsciencenow.com/meet-2020-apsr-editor-kelly-m-kadera-of-university-of-iowa/ |publisher=American Political Science Association |work=Political Science Now |title=Meet 2020 APSR Editor, Kelly M. Kadera of University of Iowa |date=29 August 2019 |access-date=8 January 2020}}</ref>
*[[Alice Kang]] – professor at [[University of Nebraska–Lincoln|University of Nebraska at Lincoln]], expert in African politics and gender research<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://polisci.unl.edu/alice-kang|title=Alice Kang {{!}} Department of Political Science {{!}} Nebraska|website=polisci.unl.edu|access-date=2019-02-19|archive-date=2019-02-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220063323/https://polisci.unl.edu/alice-kang|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Nazokat Kasimova]] – [[Uzbekistan]]i political scientist, also noted for her work within the field of [[higher education]] reform<ref name="archive1">{{cite web |url=http://www.tempus.uz/index_ru.php?tnth |title=Tempus in Uzbekistan |date=2016-01-27 |access-date=2017-11-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127104958/http://www.tempus.uz/index_ru.php?tnth |archive-date=2016-01-27 }}</ref>
* [[Nina Kasniunas]] – author and the Arsht Professor in Ethics and Leadership at [[Goucher College]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wingatewire.com/2017/05/02/profile-of-nina-kasniunas-goucher-college/|title=Profile of Nina Kasniunas: Goucher College|last=Harvey|first=Christina|date=2017-05-02|website=Wingate Wire|access-date=2018-03-02}}</ref>
* [[Nancy Kassop]] – Professor at the [[State University of New York at New Paltz]]<ref name=prg>{{cite web|title=PRG Steering Committee - 2006-2007|url=http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/renka/prg/prg_leadership_history.asp|work=THE PRESIDENCY RESEARCH GROUP|access-date=18 April 2011|archive-date=13 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313150253/http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/renka/prg/prg_leadership_history.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Peter Katzenstein]] – professor at Cornell, former president of the American Political Science Association
* [[Ira Katznelson]] – specialist in American and comparative politics
* [[Dennis Kavanagh]]
* [[Michael Keating (academic)|Michael Keating]] – specialist in nationalism, European integration and regionalism
* [[Margaret Keck]] – developed the study of international activist movements and networked advocacy<ref name=fareview>{{cite news |title=Capsule Review of Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2008-03-02/greening-brazil-environmental-activism-state-and-society |date=March 2008 |work=Foreign Affairs |access-date=19 January 2020 |last=Feinberg |first=Richard}}</ref>
* [[Edmond Keller]] – specialist in African politics
* [[Willmoore Kendall]] – political theorist; teacher of [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]]
* [[Robert Keohane|Robert O. Keohane]] – interdependence theory author
* [[Ben Kerkvliet]] – specialist in comparative politics
* [[Cornelius Kerwin]] – Former president of American University
* [[V.O. Key, Jr.]] – elections, parties and public opinion scholar
* [[Laleh Khalili]] – [[Iranian American]] and professor in Middle Eastern politics at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2016/02/11/les-fantasmes-de-kamel-daoud_4863096_3232.html|title=Nuit de Cologne : " Kamel Daoud recycle les clichés orientalistes les plus éculés "|website=Le Monde.fr|date=11 February 2016|language=fr|access-date=2018-05-11}}</ref>
* [[Ilona Kickbusch]] – German political scientist best known for her contribution to [[health promotion]] and [[global health]]<ref name=Clark2007>{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31753-1 |title=Ilona Kickbusch: Global health reformer |journal=The Lancet |volume=390 |issue=10097 |pages=835 |year=2017 |last1=Clark |first1=Jocalyn |pmid=28684020 |author-link1=Jocalyn Clark |doi-access= }}</ref>
* [[Gary King (political scientist)|Gary King]] – professor at Harvard, political methodologist
* [[John W. Kingdon]] – specialist in American politics
* [[Grayson L. Kirk]] – specialist in international relations and President of [[Columbia University]]
* [[Henry Kissinger]] – former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President [[Richard M. Nixon]]
* [[Herbert Kitschelt]] – author on new radical right parties
* [[Samara Klar]]  – professor and founder of [[Women Also Know Stuff]]
* [[Stephen D. Krasner]] – international regimes author, Director of Policy Planning under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and professor at [[Stanford University]]
* [[Michael Krassa]] – elections, social context, architecture and society; lobbyist, consultant, political sociologist at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]]
* [[Oskar Krejčí]] – theory of international relations, elections and political psychology, former advisor to two Czechoslovak premieres
* [[Sarah Kreps]] – foreign and defense policy, nuclear proliferation, and government transparency
* [[James Kurth]]
* [[Will Kymlicka]] – originated the theoretical foundations of multiculturalism

== L ==
* [[Guy Laforest]] – liberalism (John Locke) scholar; Quebec and Canadian politics specialist
* [[Celinda Lake]] – American survey methodologist, [[pollster]], and [[political consulting|political strategist]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.smith.edu/newsoffice/releases/01-054.html|title=Smith Alumnae to Be Honored at Rally Day|date=2002-02-05|website=Smith College|access-date=2017-05-22}}</ref>
* [[Enid Lakeman]] – British political reformer, writer and politician, noted for her long-standing championship of the [[Single Transferable Vote]] system of elections<ref>{{cite book |last = [[E.M. Syddique|Syddique]] |first=E. M. |title=''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004}}</ref>
* [[Laura Langbein]] – American quantitative methodologist and professor of public administration and policy at [[American University]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.american.edu/spa/faculty/langbei.cfm |title=Profile Laura Langbein |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year=2014 |website=american.edu |publisher=American University |access-date=May 27, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Harold Lasswell]] – political communications, pioneered early efforts to establish the policy sciences and influential contributor to the Stages Heuristic
* [[Adria Lawrence]] – American political scientist and the Aronson Associate Professor of International Studies and Political Science at [[Johns Hopkins University]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Adria Lawrence|url=http://campuspress.yale.edu/adrialawrence/|website=Comparative Politics & International Relations|access-date=4 March 2018}}</ref>
* [[Jack Layton]] – former leader of the [[New Democratic Party (Canada)|New Democratic Party]] of Canada, Ph.D. in Political Science
* [[Richard Ned Lebow]] – constructivist, Cold War expert, author of ''Tragic Vision of Politics''
* [[Michael Leifer]] – international relations, South Asian Studies, [[London School of Economics]]
* [[Noémi Lefebvre]] – French political scientist at the [[Instituts d'études politiques]] of [[Grenoble II]]<ref>[http://www.editions-verticales.com/auteurs_fiche.php?id=153&rubrique=4 Profile]</ref>
* [[Amy E. Lerman]] – scholar of public opinion, race, and political behaviour; Michelle Schwartz Professor of Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley 
* [[Margaret Levi]] – scholar of comparative political economy, labor politics, democratic theory, former [[American Political Science Association]] president
* [[Carl Levy (political scientist)|Carl Levy]] – Goldsmiths College, University of London
* [[Michael Lewis-Beck]] – American political scientist, scholar of comparative politics, political forecasting, and political methodology, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the [[University of Iowa]]
* [[Robert C. Lieberman]] – scholar of American politics and former provost of [[Johns Hopkins University]]
* [[Arend Lijphart]] – originator of consociationalism
* [[Fernando Limongi]] – professor in the São Paulo School of Economics at the [[Fundação Getúlio Vargas]]<ref name=FGV>{{cite web |url=https://eesp.fgv.br/integrante/fernando-limongi |title=Fernando Limongi Profile |date=28 August 2018 |publisher=Fundação Getúlio Vargas |access-date=31 December 2019}}</ref>
* [[Juan Linz]] – democracy specialist
* [[Dan Lipinski]] – U.S. House of Representatives (IL-D, 3rd)
* [[Seymour Martin Lipset]] – political theorist on democracy and development and parties; taught at [[Stanford University]]
* [[Leslie Lipson]] – was scholar of comparative politics and democracy at [[UC Berkeley]]
* [[Ramon Llull]] – discoverer of [[Condorcet Criterion]] and [[Borda Count]]
* [[Claudia López Hernández]] – [[Colombia]]n political scientist and politician who was a [[Senate of Colombia|Senator of the Republic of Colombia]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lasillavacia.com/perfilquien/19516/claudia-lopez |title=Claudia López |website=La Silla Vacía |language=es |date=8 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140901060309/http://lasillavacia.com/perfilquien/19516/claudia-lopez |archive-date=1 September 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref>
* [[Theodore Lowi]] – major scholar of American politics at [[Cornell University]]
* [[Ian Lustick]] – state territoriality ethnic conflict and computer modelling in political science; University of Pennsylvania

== M ==
* [[Mizanur Rahman Shelley]] – was a minister of the [[Government of Bangladesh]], political analyst, political scientist and educationalist.
* [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] – considered the originator of historically based political science; author of ''[[The Prince]]''
* [[Beatriz Magaloni]] – political scientist at [[Stanford University]]
* [[Pia Mancini]] – political scientist, activist and technical project leader from Argentina<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Klint Finley |url=https://www.wired.com/2014/05/democracy-os/ |title=Out in the Open: An Open Source Website That Gives Voters a Platform to Influence Politicians |magazine=Wired |date=May 5, 2014 }}</ref>
* [[Jane Mansbridge]] – scholar of social movements, gender, and democratic engagement ([[Harvard University]]), former [[American Political Science Association]] president
* [[Harvey C. Mansfield]] – political philosophy ([[Harvard University]])
* [[Zeev Maoz]] – Arab-Israeli Conflict and international relations expert
* [[José María Maravall Herrero|Jose M. Maravall]] – political economist
* [[Helen Margetts]] – Formerly Director of the [[Oxford Internet Institute]] and current director of the Public Policy Programme at the [[Alan Turing Institute]]<ref>{{cite web |title= Margetts, Helen |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94002890.html |publisher= Library of Congress |access-date= 31 August 2016 |quote= data sheet (b. 9-15-1961) }}</ref>
* [[David Marsh (political scientist)|David Marsh]] – influential British political scientist
* [[Juraj Marusiak]] – Slovak expert for Central and Eastern Europe
* [[Joanna Marszałek-Kawa]] – Polish lawyer, political scientist, professor and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science of [[Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.czasopisma.marszalek.com.pl/10-15804/npw|title=Nowa Polityka Wschodnia|website=www.czasopisma.marszalek.com.pl|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-11-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924224842/http://www.czasopisma.marszalek.com.pl/10-15804/npw|archive-date=2018-09-24|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[David R. Mayhew]] – U.S. legislative behavior and political parties expert
* [[Amy Mazur]] – American political scientist and professor at [[Washington State University]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pppa.wsu.edu/amy-mazur/|title=Meet our Faculty {{!}} PPPA {{!}} Washington State University|website=pppa.wsu.edu|access-date=2018-05-26|archive-date=2018-05-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180522085607/https://pppa.wsu.edu/amy-mazur/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[John McCormick (Jean Monnet Chair)|John McCormick]] – specialist in European Union politics
* [[John P. McCormick (political scientist)|John McCormick]] – American political scientist and Karl J. Weintraub Professor at the University of Chicago
* [[Tara McCormack]] – lecturer in [[International Relations|international relations]] at the [[University of Leicester]]<ref>[https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/politics/people/tmccormack Dr Tara McCormack.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420051710/https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/politics/people/tmccormack |date=2020-04-20 }} University of Leicester. Retrieved  16 April 2018.</ref>
* [[Rose McDermott]] – Professor of International Relations at [[Brown University]]<ref>http://watson.brown.edu/files/watson/imce/people/faculty/mcdermott/McDermott%20CV%202015.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> 
* [[Michael McFaul]] – [[Russia]] specialist, professor and director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at [[Stanford University]]
* [[John McGarry]] – ethnic conflict specialist
* [[J. Patrice McSherry]] – professor of political science at [[Long Island University]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/wn/2008/045.html |title=Long Island University to Honor Outstanding Scholarship and Teaching: Eight faculty members to receive awards on April 24 (Press release) |date=2008-04-23 |access-date=2019-12-28 |archive-date=2008-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829171820/http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/wn/2008/045.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[John Mearsheimer]] – international relations theorist and national security expert
* [[Samuel Merrill III]] – voting behavior and party competition
* [[George Michael (professor)|George Michael]] – specialist in [[right-wing extremism]]
* [[David Miller (political theorist)|David Miller]] – political philosopher, specialized in theories of social justice
* [[Charles Mills (political scientist)|Charles Mills]] – political philosopher specialising in race relations; author of ''[[The Racial Contract]]''
* [[Sara McLaughlin Mitchell]] – American political scientist and the  F. Wendell Miller Professor of Political Science at [[University of Iowa]]<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Owsiak|first1=Andrew P.|last2=Mitchell|first2=Sara McLaughlin|title=Conflict Management in Land, River, and Maritime Claims*|journal=Political Science Research and Methods|date=2017|volume=7|pages=43–61|doi=10.1017/psrm.2016.56|s2cid=157725508|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-science-research-and-methods/article/conflict-management-in-land-river-and-maritime-claims/4F008E814F5DA3660580B75152283DD3|access-date=13 May 2018|language=en|issn=2049-8470|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* [[Terry M. Moe]] – specialist in American politics
* [[Malcolm Moos]] – former President of the [[University of Minnesota]]
* [[Andrew Moravcsik]] – professor at Princeton University, liberal IR theorist, specialist on European Union politics
* [[Hans Morgenthau]] – realist, international relations specialist
* [[James D. Morrow]] – international relations expert and game theorist
*[[Rebecca Morton]] – expert in [[American politics (political science)|American Politics]], Political Economy, and [[Experimental political science|Experimental Methods]]; professor at [[New York University]]
* [[Gerardo L. Munck]] – comparative politics specialist, expert on democratization and Latin America
* [[Michael Munger]] – trained as an economist, chair of political science at [[Duke University]], running for [[governor]] of [[North Carolina]] as a [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]]
* [[Naomi Murakawa]] – American [[political scientist]] and associate professor of [[African-American studies]] at [[Princeton University]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.apsanet.org/section24 |title=Politics and History (Section 24) |website=[[American Political Science Association]]}}</ref>
* [[Amanda Murdie]] – Georgia Athletic Association Professor of International Affairs, University of Georgia; expert in the behaviour of international nongovernmental organisations and their interactions with states, local populations, and intergovernmental organizations
* [[Mohammed Barkindo]] – He is Nigerian political scientists and  petroleum economist. current secretary general of [[OPEC]].<ref>CV of secretary general of OPEC.https://www.opec.org</ref>
* [[Clark A. Murdock]] – Senior Adviser, [[Center for Strategic and International Studies]]
* [[Diana Mutz]] – Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] and the director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics<ref name=ca>{{Cite web |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/mutz-diana-c-1962 |title=Mutz, Diana C. 1962-  |date=2009 |website=Contemporary Authors |language=en |access-date=2018-08-20}}</ref>
* [[Harris Mylonas]] – Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at [[George Washington University]] and editor-in-chief of [[Nationalities Papers]]

== N ==
* [[Brigitte L. Nacos]] – professor in political science at [[Columbia University]]<ref name=ColumbiaDirectory>
[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/polisci/adjunct-fac-bios/nacos/adjunct-faculty.html University directory entry]</ref>
* [[Arthur Naftalin]] – specialist in American politics and former Mayor of [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]]
* [[Amrita Narlikar]] – President of the [[German Institute of Global and Area Studies]] and former director of the [[University of Cambridge]] Centre for Rising Powers
* [[Antonio Negri]]
* [[Franz Leopold Neumann]] – known for analysis of National Socialism  
* [[Kalypso Nicolaïdis]] – Professor of International Relations and director of the Center for International Studies at Oxford University
* [[David Nolan (libertarian)|David Nolan]] – founder of the [[United States Libertarian Party]]
* [[Farish A. Noor]] – Malaysian historian and political scientist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aceid.iafor.org/dvteam/farish-noor/|title=Farish Noor|website=ACEID|accessdate=19 September 2024|language=}}</ref>
* [[Douglass North]] – Nobel laureate
* [[Pippa Norris]] – Harvard comparative political scientist<ref>{{cite news |title=Sydney professor elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences |url=https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2018/04/26/sydney-professor-elected-to-american-academy-of-arts-and-science.html |work=The University of Sydney |date=26 April 2018 |language=en-AU}}</ref>
* [[Philip Norton]] – British politics expert
* [[Julie Novkov]] – American political scientist at SUNY Albany studying the history of American law, American political development, and subordinated identities<ref>{{cite web |url=https://politicalsciencenow.com/meet-2020-apsr-editor-julie-novkov-of-university-of-albany-suny/ |work=Political Science Now |publisher=American Political Science Association |title=Meet 2020 APSR Editor, Julie Novkov of University of Albany, SUNY |date=28 August 2019 |access-date=9 January 2020}}</ref>
* [[Joseph Nye]] – "soft power" international security specialist; Kennedy School Dean

== O ==
*[[Karen O'Connor (professor)|Karen O'Conner]] – political science professor at [[American University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] and the founder and director emerita of the [[Women & Politics Institute]]<ref name=Ed_board>{{cite web|title=Journal of Women, Politics & Policy - Editorial board |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=wwap20 |publisher=Taylor and Francis |access-date=3 June 2014}}</ref>
*[[Aloysius-Michaels Nnabugwu Okolie]] – professor at the [[University of Nigeria, Nsukka]]
* [[Guillermo O'Donnell]] – democracy specialist
* [[Brendan O'Leary]] – ethnic conflict specialist
* [[Cornelius O'Leary]] – Irish historian and political scientist
* [[Bertell Ollman]] – political theorist
* [[Mancur Olson]] – international political economy specialist; expert on collective action problems; taught at the [[University of Maryland, College Park]]
* [[A.F.K. Organski]] – developed power transition theory in his 1958 book ''World Politics''
* [[Norman Ornstein]] – American political theorist; [[American Enterprise Institute]] (AEI) resident scholar
* [[Elinor Ostrom]] – specialist on common pool resources; winner of the 2009 [[Nobel Prize]] for Economics<ref>{{cite book |author1-last=Aligica |author1-first=Paul Dragos |author2-last=Boettke |author2-first=Peter |year=2010 |chapter=Ostrom, Elinor |title=The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics |edition=Online |chapter-url=http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/article?id=pde2010_O000109|title-link=The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics }}</ref>

== P ==
* [[Thomas Pangle]] – political theorist at [[University of Texas at Austin]]
* [[Michael Parenti]] – political scientist and author
* [[Vilfredo Pareto]]
* [[W. Robert Parks]] – former President of [[Iowa State University]]
* [[Gianfranco Pasquino]] – Italian political scientist; electoral systems, comparative politics
* [[Tiago C. Peixoto]] – Brazilian political scientist in e-democracy and participatory democracy<ref>{{cite journal|date=2012-11-03|title=The 20 Most Innovative People In Democracy 2012|url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/03/the-20-most-innovative-people-in-democracy-2012/|journal=[[Tech Crunch]]|language=|access-date=2022-04-30}}</ref>
* [[Armand Peschard-Sverdrup]] – U.S.-Mexico binational relations expert
* [[Sergei M. Plekhanov]] – Russia relations expert
* [[Dianne Pinderhughes]] – scholar of race and gender inequality & public policy, former [[American Political Science Association]] president
* [[Nelson W. Polsby]] – American politics scholar
* [[Samuel L. Popkin]] – early expert on rational choice theory
* [[Karl Popper]] – theorist, originated the [[open society]] theory
* [[Emilia Justyna Powell]] – Polish-American political scientist known for her expertise on [[international dispute resolution]], the [[Islamic legal tradition]], Islamic international law, and [[Islamic constitutionalism]]<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Mitchell|first1=Sara McLaughlin|last2=Ring|first2=Jonathan J|last3=Spellman|first3=Mary K|title=Domestic legal traditions and states' human rights practices|journal=[[Journal of Peace Research]]|date=March 2013|volume=50|issue=2|pages=189–202|doi=10.1177/0022343312466561|s2cid=54821112|issn=0022-3433}}</ref>
* [[Jewel Prestage]] – first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in political science, former dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at [[Southern University]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.essence.com/2014/08/02/first-black-woman-earn-phd-political-science-dies|title=First Black Woman To Earn a Ph.D In Political Science Dies|work=Essence.com|access-date=2018-05-29|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Adam Przeworski]] – Democratic transitions theorist, author of ''Democracy and Development''; member of the [[September Group]]
* [[Robert D. Putnam]] – social capital theorist, author of ''[[Bowling Alone]]''

== R ==
* [[Douglas W. Rae]] – equality theorist
* [[Vicky Randall]] – scholar of political science and gender<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/people/vicky-randall-1945-2019//|title=''Tributes Paid to a Pioneering Feminist Scholar''|date=12 December 2019}} The Times Higher Education Supplement, 12Dec2019</ref>
* [[Mahesh Rangarajan]] – Indian political analyst and researcher with a focus on contemporary Indian politics and the politics of wildlife conservation in India
* [[John Rawls]] – political philosopher
*[[Gary D. Rawnsley]] [[Royal Society of Arts|FRSA]] – British political scientist whose research is located at the intersection of international relations and international communication.
* [[Dan Reiter]] – political scientist, specialized on military conflicts and war; professor at [[Emory University]]; author of ''How Wars End''
* [[R. A. W. Rhodes]] – public administration scholar, pioneer of the study of policy networks in British government  
* [[Condoleezza Rice]] – former [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]]; former [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]]; professor at [[Stanford University]]
* [[Floyd M. Riddick]] – [[Parliamentarian of the United States Senate]] from 1964 to 1974, and developer of [[Riddick's Senate procedure]]
* [[William H. Riker]] – 20th-century political scientist who applied [[game theory]] to political science
* [[Patrick T. Riley]] – political theorist and [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]] scholar
* [[Pearl T. Robinson]] – American professor of political science at [[Tufts University]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://as.tufts.edu/politicalscience/people/faculty/robinson|title=Department of Political Science: Tufts University|work=tufts.edu|access-date=8 April 2016|archive-date=23 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423195431/http://as.tufts.edu/politicalscience/people/faculty/robinson|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
* [[David W. Rohde]] – Congress scholar
* [[Stein Rokkan]] – expert on political parties and movements, founder of the Institute for Comparative Politics
* [[Richard Rose (political scientist)|Richard Rose]] – American political scientist, Professor of Politics at the [[University of Aberdeen]]
* [[Richard Rosecrance]] – international relations and political economy expert
* [[Clinton Rossiter]] – American government and constitutional history theorist
* [[Susanne Hoeber Rudolph]] – scholar of political economy and political economy, former [[American Political Science Association]] president
* [[Irene S. Rubin]] – Emerita at Northern Illinois University focusing on interview methodology and public budgeting in American government<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sagepub.com/hi/nam/the-politics-of-public-budgeting/book259267 |title=The Politics of Public Budgeting |publisher=SAGE Publishing |date=February 2019 |access-date=19 January 2020}}</ref>
* [[John Ruggie]] – international relations theorist, social constructivist

==S==

* [[Larry Sabato]] – [[University of Virginia]] professor, director of the [[University of Virginia Center for Politics]], and popular political analyst
* [[Scott Sagan]] – Stanford professor and notable critic of [[deterrence theory]]
* [[Slobodan Samardžić]] – research includes political ideas and institutions, federalism, constitutionalism, and European Union
* [[David Samuels (political scientist)|David Samuels]] – comparativist scholar of Brazilian politics and political institutions
* [[Eliz Sanasarian]] – professor of [[political science]] at the [[University of Southern California]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://crcc.usc.edu/about/personnel/eliz-sanasarian.html |access-date=2015-10-25 |title=Eliz Sanasarian |date=2014-10-28 |website=University of Southern California Dornsife - Center for Religion and Civic Culture |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028165609/http://crcc.usc.edu/about/personnel/eliz-sanasarian.html |archive-date=October 28, 2014 }}</ref>
* [[Emanuele Santi]] –  Italian development economist, political scientist and author<ref>{{cite web |title=Emanuele Santi |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emanuele-Santi |website=researchgate.net |publisher=Research Gate; Italian National Research Council; Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara" IFAC |access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[Virginia Sapiro]] – American political psychologist<ref>{{cite news |title=Virginia Sapiro |url=https://www.bu.edu/polisci/people/faculty/virginiasapiro/ |access-date=January 22, 2019 |publisher=Boston University |archive-date=January 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121232848/https://www.bu.edu/polisci/people/faculty/virginiasapiro/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Austin Sarat]] – public law specialist
* [[Giovanni Sartori]] – comparativist, expert on constitutional theory and party systems
* [[Elmer Eric Schattschneider|E.E. Schattschneider]] – early political parties expert, author of ''Party Government'' and ''The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America''
* [[Steven Schier]] – specialist in American Politics
* [[Warner R. Schilling]] – specialist in international relations and military technology
* [[Kay Lehman Schlozman]] – J. Joseph Moakley Professor of political science at Boston College and an expert in American political participation and gender and politics<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scholars.org/features/scholar-spotlight-kay-lehman-schlozman-and-samara-klar |title=Scholar spotlight: Kay Lehman Schlozman and Samara Klar |date=6 July 2018 |access-date=2 November 2019}}</ref>
* [[Vivien A. Schmidt]] – Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration Professor of International Relations in the [[Pardee School of Global Studies]] and professor of political science at [[Boston University]]<ref>Campbell, John L., and Ove K. Pedersen. ''The national origins of policy ideas: Knowledge regimes in the United States,'' France, Germany, and Denmark. Princeton University Press, 2014. p. 2</ref>
* [[Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey]] – professor in Political Science at the [[London School of Economics and Political Science]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Professor Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey (FBA) |url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/government/people/academic-staff/cheryl-schonhardt-bailey |website=London School of Economics and Political Science |access-date=24 July 2018}}</ref>
* [[Victoria Schuck]] – Professor of Political Science who spent much of her career (1940–1976) at [[Mount Holyoke College]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-09-11|title=Biography: Professor Victoria Schuck|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/calendar/women-leading-public-service-2015/schuck-biography|access-date=2021-10-25|website=Mount Holyoke College|language=en|archive-date=2021-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919151916/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/calendar/women-leading-public-service-2015/schuck-biography|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Ekaterina Schulmann]] – associate professor of the [[Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration]] and legal specialist<ref name="hrights">{{cite web |url=http://president-sovet.ru/members/constitution/read/97/ |title=Шульман Екатерина Михайловна|publisher=[[Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights]] |access-date=31 December 2018 |language=ru}}</ref>
* [[Gesine Schwan]] – political scientist, president of the [[Viadrina European University]], and nominated twice as a candidate for the [[President of Germany|federal presidential elections of Germany]]
* [[James C. Scott]] – political economist, Southeast Asia area specialist
* [[Mitchell A. Seligson]] – Centennial Professor of Political Science [[Vanderbilt University]]; founder of [[Latin American Public Opinion Project]] and AmericasBarometer
* [[Donna Shalala]] – former [[United States Secretary of Health and Human Services]]
* [[Jim Sidanius]] – American political scientist
* [[Matthew Soberg Shugart]] – scholar of constitutional design and electoral systems
* [[Yekaterina Shulman]]  – scholar specializing in lawmaking
* [[Beth Simmons]] – international relations scholar focusing on human rights
* [[Herbert A. Simon]] – [[Nobel Prize]]-winning professor at [[Carnegie Mellon]]; a founder of [[artificial intelligence]] research; received his Ph.D. in political science from the [[University of Chicago]]
* [[Valeria Sinclair-Chapman]] – studies American [[political institutions]], the representation of minority groups in the [[United States Congress]], and minority political participation<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cla.purdue.edu/facultyStaff/profiles/new/newfaculty-13/Sinclair-Chapman,_Valeria.html |title=Valeria Sinclair-Chapman |year=2013 |access-date=10 January 2020 |publisher=Purdue University |archive-date=5 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200105021206/https://cla.purdue.edu/facultyStaff/profiles/new/newfaculty-13/Sinclair-Chapman,_Valeria.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Theda Skocpol]] – comparative sociologist; former president of American Political Science Association, [[Harvard University]]
* [[Stephen Skowronek]] – presidency and American political development scholar ([[Yale University]])
* [[Anne-Marie Slaughter]] – scholar of international relations, former president of the American Society of International Law
* [[Jean Edward Smith]] – political economist, biographer, international relations, constitutional law
* [[Rogers Smith]] – [[Pulitzer Prize]] finalist, American politics expert at the University of Pennsylvania
* [[Steven S. Smith]] – American politics, congressional politics, Russian politics; Director, Weidenbaum Center
* [[Peverill Squire]] – Americanist
* [[Allison Stanger]] – American political scientist and the Russell J. Leng '60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at [[Middlebury College]]<ref>[http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ps/faculty/as Faculty profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110306205714/http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ps/faculty/as |date=2011-03-06 }}, Middlebury Political Science Dept., retrieved 2011-10-03.</ref>
* [[Michael Steed]] – British political scientist, developed the concept of "Steed swing" as distinct from "Butler swing"
* [[Alfred Stepan]] – comparativist, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University
* [[Zeev Sternhell]] – theorist, political historian of political ideology
* [[John G. Stoessinger]] – international relations theorist, author of ''The Might of Nations: World Politics in our Time''
* [[Donald E. Stokes]] – former dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton; expert on elections
* [[Susan Stokes]] – Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science department of the [[University of Chicago]] and the faculty director of the Chicago Center on Democracy<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.uchicago.edu/story/faculty-members-receive-named-distinguished-service-professorships-4|title=Faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships|website=University of Chicago News|date=13 June 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-01-08}}</ref>
* [[Herbert Storing]] – American politics expert
* [[Susan Strange]] – British expert in international relations; taught at the London School of Economics<ref>{{cite journal|last=Brown|first=Chris|title=Susan Strange: A Critical Appreciation|journal=Review of International Studies|date=July 1999|volume=25|issue=3|pages=531–535|jstor=20097617|doi=10.1017/s0260210599005318|doi-broken-date=22 March 2025 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[Dara Strolovitch]] – studies the politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the context of intersectional societal inequality<ref>{{cite web |url=https://politicalsciencenow.com/meet-2020-apsr-editor-dara-z-strolovitch-of-princeton-university/ |title=Meet 2020 APSR Editor, Dara Z. Strolovitch of Princeton University |date=25 August 2019 |access-date=11 January 2020 |work=Political Science Now |publisher=American Political Science Association}}</ref>
* [[Carol Miller Swain|Carol Swain]] – Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University; expert on immigration and race
* [[Stephen Szabo]] is an American political scientist and educator who specializes in foreign policy.
* [[Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila]] a Nigerian political scientist, author of The Rise and Fall of Kano Peoples Party, Secretary-General [[People's Redemption Party]] 1980–1983, Campaign Manager of [[Nigerian People's Party]] –1983

== T ==
* [[Rein Taagepera]] – [[comparative literature|comparativist]], expert on electoral systems and history of government
* [[Colin Talbot]] – Chair of Government at the [[University of Manchester]]; adviser to various [[Parliamentary Committees of the United Kingdom]]
* [[Marco Tarchi]] – professor at [[University of Florence]], right-wing militant and creator of [[Nouvelle Droite]]
* [[Katherine Tate]] – Professor of Political Science at [[Brown University]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=3222 |title=UCI Faculty Profile |access-date=2019-12-28 |archive-date=2012-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405113906/http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=3222 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Merze Tate]] – international relations expert and first African-American woman to attend [[University of Oxford]] and receive a Ph.D. in government from [[Harvard University]]
* [[Anthony Teasdale]] - specialist in European Union politics
* [[Sally Terry]] – political science professor at [[Tufts University]] from 1975<ref name="Resolution">{{cite web|title=Resolution on the retirement of Sarah Meiklejohn Terry|url=https://ase.tufts.edu/faculty/pdfs/retiredFaculty/terry.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://ase.tufts.edu/faculty/pdfs/retiredFaculty/terry.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|publisher=Tufts University|access-date=5 February 2018}}</ref> until her retirement in 2002<ref name="Tufts">{{cite web|title=Sarah Meiklejohn Terry|url=http://as.tufts.edu/politicalscience/sites/all/themes/asbase/assets/documents/emeritusTerry.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://as.tufts.edu/politicalscience/sites/all/themes/asbase/assets/documents/emeritusTerry.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|publisher=Tufts University|access-date=5 February 2018}}</ref>
* [[Dennis Frank Thompson|Dennis Thompson]] – political theorist at [[Harvard University]]
* [[Marianne Thyrring]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.altinget.dk/person/marianne-thyrring |title=Marianne Thyrring |publisher=Altinget |date=December 17, 2019 |access-date=6 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[J. Ann Tickner]] – feminist international relations theorist and current president of the [[International Studies Association]] (ISA)
* [[Virginia Tilley]] – specialist on the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]]
* [[Charles Tilly]] – professor at [[Columbia University]], his work includes [[contentious politics]] and evolution of modern states
* [[Herbert Tingsten]] – professor of political science at [[Stockholm University]]
* [[Jeanne Theoharis]] – Distinguished Professor of Political Science at [[Brooklyn College]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=510|title=Brooklyn College - Faculty Profile|work=cuny.edu|access-date=2015-08-07}}</ref>
* [[Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay]] – Canadian political scientist, former [[academic administrator|senior academic administrator]], and an expert on [[Kashmir]] and [[India]]-[[Pakistan]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sagepub.com/hi/nam/author/reeta-chowdhari-tremblay|title=Tremblay, Reeta Chowdhari|date=2019-05-12|website=SAGE Publications Inc|language=hi|access-date=2019-05-18}}</ref> 
* [[George Tsebelis]] – game theorist notable for his general theory of veto players and for describing the Robinson Crusoe fallacy
* [[Jeffrey K. Tulis]] – professor at [[The University of Texas at Austin]]
* [[Tijjani Muhammad Bande]] – Nigerian political scientist permanent representative of Nigeria to the [[UN]] and former president of [[UNGA]]

== U ==

* [[Patrick Utomi]] – political economist

== V ==
* [[Stephen Van Evera]] – [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] international relations expert, known for proposing the Offense-Defense theory
* [[Tatu Vanhanen]] – democratization and ethnic nepotism
* [[Sarojini Varadappan]] – Indian social worker who earned her [[doctorate|PhD]] at the age of 80<ref>{{cite news|title=Saga of grit and success|author=Suganthy Krishnamachari|work=[[The Hindu]] |url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/03/06/stories/2009030651160100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090310064112/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/03/06/stories/2009030651160100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2009| date=6 March 2009|location=Chennai, India}}</ref>
* [[Sidney Verba]] – American [[political scientist]], [[librarian]] and library administrator<ref>{{cite news |last=Mineo |first=Liz |date=March 7, 2019 |title=Sidney Verba dies at 86 |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/03/political-scientist-sidney-verba-dead-at-86/ |work=[[Harvard Gazette]] |location=[[Cambridge, Massachusetts]] |access-date=March 8, 2019 }}</ref>
* [[Mieke Verloo]] – Professor of [[comparative politics]] and inequality issues at [[Radboud University]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ru.nl/english/people/verloo-m/|title=Search for people or departments|website=Radboud University}}</ref>
* [[Eric Voegelin]] – in his major work, ''Order and History'' in five volumes, he rejected the notion that political science should become a positivistic social science
* [[Margaret Vogt]] – [[Nigerian]] diplomat and [[political scientist]] who served as Special Representative and head of the United Nations Integrated Peace-building Office in the [[Central African Republic]]<ref>{{Cite press release|title=Secretary-General Appoints Margaret Vogt of Nigeria as Special Representative to Central African Republic and Head of UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office|date=May 19, 2011|publisher=United Nations|url=https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2011/sga1294.doc.htm|access-date=March 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Leah Vosko]] – professor at [[York University]]<ref>{{cite web |title=York U. experts featured in CBC Ideas 'Paid to be Poor' |url=http://news.yorku.ca/2004/03/29/york-u-experts-featured-in-cbc-ideas-%E2%80%98paid-to-be-poor%E2%80%99/ |website=news.yorku.ca |access-date=April 22, 2019 |date=March 29, 2004}}</ref>

== W ==
* [[Helen Wallace]] – international relations specialist
* [[Denise Walsh]] – studies the relationship between women's rights and political inclusion and level of democracy<ref>{{cite web |url=https://politicalsciencenow.com/meet-2020-apsr-editor-denise-walsh-of-university-of-virginia/ |title=Meet 2020 APSR Editor, Denise Walsh of University of Virginia |date=27 August 2019 |work=Political Science Now |publisher=American Political Science Association |access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref>
* [[Stephen Walt]] – international relations specialist
* [[Kenneth N. Waltz]] – founder of the neorealist international relations school
* [[Michael Walzer]] – international relations, just war theory
* [[John Wanna]] – [[John Bunting (diplomat)|Sir John Bunting]] Chair of [[Public Administration]] at the [[Australia and New Zealand School of Government]]
* [[Georgina Waylen]] – comparative politics, political economy, and gender<ref>{{cite web |title=Georgina Waylen |url=https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/people/georgina-waylen |website=Center for European Studies |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=27 June 2019 |language=en |date=26 June 2019}}</ref>
* [[Linda Weiss]] – professor of [[political science]] at the [[University of Sydney]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/content.php?pageid=2395|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050921235624/http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/content.php?pageid=2395|url-status=dead|archive-date=2005-09-21|title=Profile}}</ref>
* [[Patricia A. Weitsman]] – international relations scholar, alliance theory
* [[S. Laurel Weldon]] – Canadian and American political scientist and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at [[Simon Fraser University]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://politicalsciencenow.com/meet-2020-apsr-editor-s-laurel-weldon-of-simon-fraser-university/ |date=2019-09-02 | website=Political Science Now |title=Meet 2020 APSR Editor, S. Laurel Weldon of Simon Fraser University | publisher=American Political Science Association |access-date=25 December 2019}}</ref>
* [[Alexander Wendt]] – [[social constructivism]] proponent
* [[Martin Westlake]] - specialist in European Union politics
* [[John Henry Whyte]] – specialist in Northern Irish politics
* [[Aaron Wildavsky]] – author of ''Risk and Culture''
* [[Bruce A. Williams]] – specialist in American politics
* [[Danny Williams (Canadian politician)|Danny Williams]] – Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
* [[James Q. Wilson]] – former President of the [[American Political Science Association]]
* [[Woodrow Wilson]] – former Professor of Politics at [[Princeton University]] and former [[US President]]
* [[William Wohlforth]] – international relations scholar
* [[Arnold Wolfers]] – international relations scholar, classical realism
* [[Elisabeth Jean Wood]] – studies sexual violence during war, the emergence of political insurgencies and individuals' participation in them, and democratization<ref>{{cite web |url=https://campuspress.yale.edu/elisabethwood/ |title=Elisabeth Jean Wood at Yale University |publisher=Yale University |year=2019 |access-date=12 January 2020}}</ref>
* [[Ngaire Woods]] – founding dean of the [[Blavatnik School of Government]]
* [[Susan L. Woodward]] – professor at the [[CUNY Graduate Center|Graduate Center of the City University of New York]]

== Y ==
* [[Atilla Yayla]] – Professor of Politics, Political Economy and Political Philosophy at [[Gazi University]] in [[Turkey]]; president of the [[Association for Liberal Thinking]]
* [[Yelyzaveta Yasko]] – [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] political scientist and politician who is a [[Verkhovna Rada|member of the Ukrainian Parliament]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/no-experience-no-problem-a-look-at-some-of-the-new-faces-in-ukraine-s-parliament-/30069444.html|title=No Experience? No Problem: A Look At Some Of The New Faces In Ukraine's Parliament|newspaper=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=22 July 2019 |language=en|access-date=2019-11-04 |last1=Coalson |first1=Robert |last2=Wesolowsky |first2=Tony }}</ref>
* [[M. Crawford Young]] – comparativist, Africa scholar

== Z ==
* [[Fareed Zakaria]] – international relations expert
* [[John Zaller]] – author of ''The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion''; at [[UCLA]]
* [[Elizabeth Zechmeister]] – comparativist at [[Vanderbilt University]], Latin American politics and public opinion expert, director of the [[Latin American Public Opinion Project|Latin America Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vanderbilt.edu/political-science/bio/elizabeth-zechmeister|title=Profile|website=Department of Political Science|language=en|access-date=2018-09-19}}</ref>
* [[Zhang Weiwei (professor)|Zhang Weiwei]] – Chinese political scientist
* [[Ina Zhupa]] – Albanian political scientist who studies Democratization and Values of Albanian Society<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uet.edu.al/index.php/sq/publikimet/|title=Publikimet|last=gersi|website=www.uet.edu.al|access-date=30 March 2018|archive-date=9 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170609065613/http://www.uet.edu.al/index.php/sq/publikimet|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Political theorist]]
* ''[[Oxford Handbooks of Political Science]]''
* [[Political science]]
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