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A political scientist is someone who studies or contributes to the field of political scienceNotable 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. DahlRobert A. Dahl (b. 1915), is a Sterling professor emeritus of political science at Yale University, a past president of the American Political Science Association and one of the most distinguished poilitical scientists writing today. In the 1960s, he was
- 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 systemUS in 1945 Voting systems are methods ( algorithms) for groups of people to select one or more options from many, taking into account the individual preferences of the group members. Voting is often seen as the defining feature of democracy, and is best k.
- Everett Dolman
- Maurice DuvergerMaurice Duverger (born June 5, 1917) is a French jurist. He was born in Angouleme, France. He devised a theory which became known as Duverger's law, which identifies a correlation between voting systems and the formation of a two-party system. Notable pub - French lawyerA lawyer or attorney at law is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law and other legal agencies. Most countries today require professional law advisors in their judicial systems. Lawyers have m and sociologist responsible for Duverger's lawElections Duverger's Law is a principle which asserts that a first-past-the-post election system naturally leads to a two-party system. The discovery of this principle is attributed to Maurice Duverger, a French sociologist who observed the effect and rec
- 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
- Robert Putnam - social capital theorist, author of Bowling Alone
- 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
- David B. Truman
- Kenneth N. Waltz
- Paul Whiteley
- Howard J. Wiarda
- Susan L. Woodward
- Fareed Zakaria
See also: political theorist, list of people
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