Political scientists
A political scientist is someone who studies or contributes to the field of political science
Notable political scientists:
- Kenneth Arrow - Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who published influential paper on his widely cited Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Robert Axelrod
- Duncan Black - Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson
- Jean-Charles de Borda - 18th century mathematician who devised the Borda count
- Steven Brams
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- Nathan Busch
- John M. Carey
- Marquis de Condorcet - 18th century mathematician and philosopher who contributed the often used Condorcet criterion and devised the concept of a Condorcet method
- John Coneybeare
- Clyde Coombs
- Robert A. Dahl
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) - Famous author of Alice in Wonderland who was also a noted professor of mathematics at Oxford University. He devised Dodgson's Method of voting system.
- Everett Dolman
- Maurice Duverger - French lawyer and sociologist responsible for Duverger's law
- Peter Fishburn
- Joanne Gowa
- Thomas Hare - Devised single transfer voting (a.k.a. Hare's method)
- Paul Heywood
- John Hickman
- Roger Hilsman
- Timothy Hoye
- Samuel P. Huntington
- Gary C. Jacobson
- Robert Jervis
- Chalmers Johnson
- Robert O. Keohane
- Chong Lim Kim
- Stephen D. Krasner
- Arend Lijphart
- Kenneth May
- David R. Mayhew
- John Mearsheimer
- Samuel Merrill
- Pippa Norris
- Philip Norton
- Mancur Olson
- Nelson Polsby
- Samuel L. Popkin
- William H. Riker - 20th century political scientist who applied game theory to political science.
- James C. Scott
- Patrick Seyd
- Lilia Shevtsova
- Matthew Soberg Shugart
- Robert J. Spitzer
- Peverill Squire
- Wayne P. Steger
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
- James A. Stimson
- John G. Stoessinger
- Rein Taagepera
- Nicolaus Tideman
- Kenneth N. Waltz
- Paul Whiteley
- Howard J. Wiarda
- Susan L. Woodward
- Fareed Zakaria