List of political scientists
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See also: Political Science
Notable political scientists
- Kenneth Arrow - Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who published influential paper on his widely cited Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Robert Axelrod
- Duncan Black - Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson
- Jean-Charles de Borda - 18th century mathematician who devised the Borda count
- Steven Brams
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- Nathan Busch
- John M. Carey
- Marquis de Condorcet - 18th century mathematician and philosopher who contributed the often used Condorcet criterion and devised the concept of a Condorcet method
- John Coneybeare
- Clyde Coombs
- Philip Cowley
- Robert A. Dahl
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) - Famous author of Alice in Wonderland who was also a noted professor of mathematics at Oxford University. He devised Dodgson's Method of voting system.
- Everett Dolman
- Maurice Duverger - French lawyer and sociologist responsible for Duverger's law
- Thomas Hare - Devised single transfer voting (a.k.a. Hare's method)
- Paul Heywood
- John Hickman
- Roger Hilsman - JFK Aid, Columbia University Professor, and prolific authior
- Timothy Hoye
- Samuel P. Huntington
- Nelson Polsby
- Samuel L. Popkin
- Robert Putnam - social capital theorist, author of Bowling Alone
- William H. Riker - 20th century political scientist who applied game theory to political science.
- Fernanda Sales
- 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
See also: Political Theorist, list of people
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "List_of_political_scientists" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_scientists, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
