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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- Robert Abelson – Yale University psychologist and political scientist with special interests in statistics and logic[1]
- Henry J. Abraham – American scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law and James Hart Professor of Government Emeritus at the University of Virginia[2][3]
- Alan Abramowitz – expert in American politics, political parties, ideological realignment, elections, and voting behavior; professor at Emory University
- 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[4]
- As'ad AbuKhalil – Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus.[5]
- Ibrahim Abu-Lughod[6] – Palestinian-American academic and professor for political science at Northwestern University for 34 years.
- Brooke Ackerly – expert on grounded normative theory, feminist theory, feminist international relations, and scholar activism, professor at Vanderbilt University[7]
- Martha Ackelsberg – American political scientist and women's studies scholar at Smith College[8]
- David Adamany – public law specialist and President of Temple University
- Charles R. Adrian – American professor of political science who specialized in municipal politics[9]
- Vinod Aggarwal – American political scientist specializing in international political economy[10]
- Robert Agranoff – American political scientist and public administration scholar and author[11]
- Arun Agrawal – political scientist in the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan[12]
- Janet Ajzenstat – Canadian political historian at McMaster University[13]
- Adeolu Akande – professor of political science at the Igbinedion University
- Bolaji Akinyemi – Nigerian professor of political science
- Bethany Albertson – American political psychologist[14]
- Daniel P. Aldrich – American political scientist, public policy and Asian studies scholar at Northeastern University[15]
- John Aldrich – political parties expert at Duke University, author of Why Parties?
- John R. Alford – political science professor at Rice University who researches genopolitics[16]
- 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[17]
- Danielle Allen – American classicist and political scientist[18]
- 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[19][20]
- 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[21]
- Micah Altman – American social scientist who conducts research in social science informatics[22]
- R. Michael Alvarez – professor of political science at California Institute of Technology and co-director of the Voting Technology Project[23]
- Tabata Amaral – Brazilian political scientist and federal deputy for São Paulo[24]
- 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[25]
- Kristi Andersen – American political scientist at Syracuse University who studies party realignment[26]
- Walter K. Andersen – American academic known for his studies of the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh[27]
- Benedict Anderson – Chinese-born Irish political scientist and historian in the US, author of Imagined Communities[28]
- Lisa Anderson – American political scientist and the former president of the American University in Cairo[29]
- Walter Truett Anderson – American political scientist, social psychologist, and author of non-fiction books and articles[30]
- William Anderson – specialist in public administration
- Mina Andreeva – Bulgarian political scientist and chief spokesperson for the European Commission[31]
- Marimba Ani – anthropologist and African Studies scholar best known for her work Yurugu[32]
- Stephen Ansolabehere – professor of government at Harvard University[33]
- William Antholis – Greek-American political scientist, director and CEO of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia[34]
- 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[35]
- Asher Arian – American and Israeli political scientist who was an expert on Politics of Israel and election studies[36][37]
- Hadley Arkes – American political scientist and the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions emeritus at Amherst College[38][39]
- John Alexander Armstrong – Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison[40]
- Larry Arnhart – Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northern Illinois University[41]
- Richard Ashcraft – American political theorist and professor of political science at UCLA[42]
- Herb Asher – professor emeritus of political science at Ohio State University[43]
- Richard K. Ashley – postmodernist scholar of international relations[44]
- Ronald Asmus – diplomat and political analyst and then senior think tank policy analyst[45]
- Scott Atran – American-French political and cultural anthropologist[46]
- Sharon Wright Austin – Director of the African-American Studies Program and a professor of political science at the University of Florida[47]
- Deborah Avant – American political scientist at the University of Denver[48]
- Bill Avery – politician from the state of Nebraska and retired political scientist who specializes in international trade and foreign relations[49]
- Robert Axelrod – expert on game theory and 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[50]
- Jeremy Azrael – American political scientist known for his expertise on the economy of the Soviet Union[51]
- Andrew Bacevich[52]
- Gawdat Bahgat[53]
- Kathleen Cordelia Bailey[54]
- 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[55]
- Lisa Baldez[56]
- Michel Balinski[57]
- Moniz Bandeira – Brazilian writer, professor, political scientist, historian and poet
- Mary Jo Bane[58]
- Edward C. Banfield[59]
- 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 American presidents
- 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[60]
- Joel Barkan[61]
- Lucius Barker[62]
- Michael Barkun[63]
- A. Doak Barnett[64]
- 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[65]
- Matt A. Barreto[66]
- David M. Barrett[67]
- Larry Bartels – democracy and voting expert at Vanderbilt University
- Robert V. Bartlett[68]
- Gad Barzilai – Law and Politics, Human Rights and Politics, Communities and Law at University of Washington
- Sylvia Bashevkin – Canadian scholar of women and politics[69]
- Stephen Baskerville[70]
- Amrita Basu[71]
- Robert Bates[72]
- Frank Baumgartner[73]
- Phineas Baxandall[74]
- David H. Bayley[75]
- Elmira Bayrasli[76]
- Robert J. Beck[77]
- Holmes Beckwith[78]
- Francis Beer[79]
- Samuel Beer[80]
- Edward Beiser[81]
- Linda Royster Beito[82]
- Charles Beitz[83]
- Aaron Belkin[84]
- Adolphus G. Belk Jr.[85]
- Alon Ben-Meir[86]
- Daniel Benjamin[87]
- Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi – Moroccan political scientist, author and professor at the University of Lausanne[88]
- Linda L. M. Bennett[89]
- W. Lance Bennett[90]
- William Benoit[91]
- Myriam Benraad[92]
- Richard Bensel[93]
- Arthur F. Bentley[94]
- Suzanne Berger[95]
- Adam Berinsky[96]
- Peter Berkowitz[97]
- Ilan Berman[98]
- Marshall Berman[99]
- Sheri Berman[100]
- Nancy Bermeo[101]
- William D. Berry[102]
- Michele Betsill[103]
- 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[104]
- Thomas J. Biersteker[105]
- Leonard Binder[106]
- Sarah Binder[107]
- Thomas A. Birkland[108]
- Sarah Birch – professor in comparative politics at King's College London[109]
- Thomas A. Birkland – author of Lessons of Disaster
- Rachel Bitecofer[110]
- Duncan Black – Spatial voting theorist[111]
- Earl Black[112]
- Merle Black[113]
- Chris Blattman[114]
- 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[115]
- Virgil Blum[116]
- Mark Blyth[117]
- Lawrence Bobo
- Alan Bock[118]
- Sophie Body-Gendrot[119]
- Vernon Bogdanor
- B. Anthony Bogues[120]
- Jean-Charles de Borda – 18th-century mathematician who devised the Borda count
- David Bositis[121]
- Eileen Hunt Botting[122]
- Catherine Boone[123]
- Ammar Bouhouche – Algerian political and military leader and academic political scientist[124][125]
- Terry Bouricius[126]
- Donna Lee Bowen[127]
- Shaun Bowler[128]
- Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier[129]
- Mark A. Boyer[130]
- Jules Boykoff[131]
- Paul Bracken[132]
- David W. Brady[133]
- Henry E. Brady[134]
- Ralph Braibanti[135]
- Steven Brams – expert on voting systems
- Laurie Brand[136]
- Paul Brass[137]
- 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.[138]
- Janine Brodie – Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Political Economy and Social Governance at the University of Alberta[139]
- Stephen Brooks – international relations scholar
- Lara Brown – American political scientist and director of the Graduate School of Political Management at the George Washington University[140]
- Nadia E. Brown – uses intersectionality to study identity politics, legislative studies, and Black women's studies[141]
- 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 – pioneer of modern British political science, invented the concept of swing
- Alison Dagnes – American specialist in politics and the media, politics and humor, and political scandal[149]
- Robert A. Dahl – American politics specialist, author of On Democracy
- Jouke de Vries – 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[150]
- 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[151]
- 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[152]
- 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[153] and the W. J. M. Mackenzie award of the Political Studies Association.[154]
- 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
- 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 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 – elite theory vs. pluralism; author of The Irony of Democracy and Who's Running America?
- Michael Gallagher
- Krenar Gashi – Ghent University political scientist and former Financial Times reporter[166]
- Lisa García Bedolla – UC Berkeley professor, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, and dean of the Graduate Division
- Scott Gates – specialist in international relations
- Barbara Geddes – scholar of authoritarianism and authoritarian regimes[167]
- 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[168]
- Robert Gilpin – international political economy specialist
- 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[169]
- Betty Glad – American researcher of the American presidency and American foreign policy[170]
- Siri Gloppen – Norwegian political scientist[171]
- 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[172]
- Heather Grabbe – political scientist, activist, and director of the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels, Belgium[173]
- Doris Graber – American pioneer in the field of political communication[174]
- Colin Gray – international security
- Donald Green – Professor of Political Science at Columbia University focusing on field experiments in American politics
- 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[175]
- Liah Greenfeld – Israeli, American, and Russian social scientist[176]
- Anna Grzymala – American political scientist, currently at Stanford University and previously also the Ronald Eileen Weiser Professor at University of Michigan[177]
- Rhiana Gunn-Wright – American policy director[178]
- Yaprak Gürsoy – Turkish political scientist and associate professor in the Department of International Relations at the Istanbul Bilgi University[179]
- Ted Robert Gurr – specialist on conflict and violence
- Amy Gutmann – political theory expert; president of the University of Pennsylvania (2004–present)
- Kelly Kadera – professor at University of Iowa studying international relations, democratic backsliding, and gender in politics using dynamic models[189]
- Alice Kang – professor at University of Nebraska at Lincoln, expert in African politics and gender research[190]
- Nazokat Kasimova – Uzbekistani political scientist, also noted for her work within the field of higher education reform[191]
- Nina Kasniunas – author and the Arsht Professor in Ethics and Leadership at Goucher College[192]
- Nancy Kassop – Professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz[193]
- 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 – specialist in nationalism, European integration and regionalism
- Margaret Keck – developed the study of international activist movements and networked advocacy[194]
- Edmond Keller – specialist in African politics
- Willmoore Kendall – political theorist; teacher of William F. Buckley, Jr.
- 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[195]
- Ilona Kickbusch – German political scientist best known for her contribution to health promotion and global health[196]
- 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
- Guy Laforest – liberalism (John Locke) scholar; Quebec and Canadian politics specialist
- Celinda Lake – American survey methodologist, pollster, and political strategist[197]
- Enid Lakeman – British political reformer, writer and politician, noted for her long-standing championship of the Single Transferable Vote system of elections[198]
- Laura Langbein – American quantitative methodologist and professor of public administration and policy at American University[199]
- 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[200]
- Jack Layton – former leader of the 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[201]
- Margaret Levi – scholar of comparative political economy, labor politics, democratic theory, former American Political Science Association president
- Carl Levy – Goldsmiths College, University of London
- Robert C. Lieberman – scholar of American politics and 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[202]
- 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 – Colombian political scientist and politician who was a Senator of the Republic of Colombia[203]
- 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
- 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[204]
- 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
- 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[205]
- 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[206]
- David R. Mayhew – U.S. legislative behavior and political parties expert
- Amy Mazur – American political scientist and professor at Washington State University[207]
- John McCormick – specialist in European Union politics
- Tara McCormack – lecturer in international relations at the University of Leicester[208]
- Rose McDermott – Professor of International Relations at Brown University[209]
- 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[210]
- John Mearsheimer – international relations theorist and national security expert
- Samuel Merrill III – voting behavior and party competition
- George Michael – specialist in right-wing extremism
- David Miller – political philosopher, specialized in theories of social justice
- 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[211]
- 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 Economy, and 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
- Naomi Murakawa – American political scientist and associate professor of African-American studies at Princeton University[212]
- Mohammed Barkindo – He is Nigerian political scientists and petroleum economist. current secretary general of OPEC.[213]
- 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[214]
- Harris Mylonas – Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and editor-in-chief of Nationalities Papers
- 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 – comparativist scholar of Brazilian politics and political institutions
- Eliz Sanasarian – professor of political science at the University of Southern California[227]
- Emanuele Santi – Italian development economist, political scientist and author[228]
- Virginia Sapiro – American political psychologist[229]
- Austin Sarat – public law specialist
- Giovanni Sartori – comparativist, expert on constitutional theory and party systems
- 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[230]
- 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[231]
- Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey – professor in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science[232]
- Victoria Schuck – Professor of Political Science who spent much of her career (1940–1976) at Mount Holyoke College[233]
- Ekaterina Schulmann – associate professor of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and legal specialist[234]
- Gesine Schwan – political scientist, president of the Viadrina European University, and nominated twice as a candidate for the 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[235]
- 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[236]
- 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[237]
- Herbert Storing – American politics expert
- Susan Strange – British expert in international relations; taught at the London School of Economics[238]
- Dara Strolovitch – studies the politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the context of intersectional societal inequality[239]
- 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
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