List of 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
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