List of political scientists
The list of political scientists is sorted alphabetically and includes researchers who have made significant contributions to the field of Political Science.
Well-known political scientist
Known as scientists
- Wolfgang Abendroth, a professor of science policy at the Philipps- University Marburg
- Johannes Agnoli, 1967-1990 Professor at the Free University Berlin
- Detlev Albers, professor of political science at the University of Bremen
- Ulrich von Alemann, head of the Department of Political Science II and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Heinrich -Heine- University Dusseldorf
- Gabriel Almond, major American representatives of comparative politics
- Elmar Altvater, Emeritus Professor at the Otto -Suhr- Institute
- Hannah Arendt, journalist and political theorist.
- Robert Axelrod, representatives of the rational choice theory
- Arnulf Baring
- Claus- Ekkehard Bärsch
- Stefano Bartolini
- Rudolph Bauer, Professor Emeritus of the University of Bremen
- Christine Bauhardt
- Isaiah Berlin
- Udo Bermbach
- Arthur Benz
- Klaus Beyme
- Hanne -Margret Birckenbach
- Dieter Blumenwitz
- Ahron Bregman
- Manfred Brocker
- Peter Brokmeier
- Tanja Brühl
- Hubertus Buchstein
- Heinrich Bußhoff
- Ernst- Otto Czempiel
- Frank Decker
- Frank Deppe
- Charles W. German
- Nils Diederich
- Joseph Diescho
- Klaus Dicke
- Christoph Dörrenbächer
- David Easton
- Theodor Ebert
- Thomas Ellwein
- Jon Elster
- Theodor Eschenburg
- Josef Esser
- Jürgen W. Falter
- Jürgen Fijalkowski
- Ossip K. Flechtheim
- Rainer Forst
- Ernst Fraenkel
- Georg Fülberth
- Francis Fukuyama
- Thomas Gehring
- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
- Sylvia Greiffenhagen
- Michael T. Greven
- Peter Grottian
- Jürgen Habermas
- Rolf Hanisch
- Juergen Harrer
- Sebastian Heilmann
- Eike Hennig
- Wilhelm Hennis
- Joachim Jens Hesse
- Joachim Hirsch
- Uwe Holtz
- Irving Louis Horowitz
- Samuel Huntington
- Wolfgang Ismayr
- Hans -Adolf Jacobsen
- Eckhard Jesse
- Uwe Jun
- Karl Kaiser
- Otto Keck
- Paul Kennedy
- Robert Keohane
- Peter Graf Kielmansegg
- Eugen Kogon
- Karl -Rudolf Korte, University of Duisburg -Essen, NRW School of Governance
- Friedrich Kratochwil
- Peter A. Kraus
- Eva Kreisky
- Ekkehart Krippendorff
- Will Kymlicka
- Bernd Ladwig
- Gerd Langguth
- Paul F. Lazarsfeld
- Claus Leggewie, a political science professor at the Justus -Liebig- University Giessen
- Kurt Lenk
- Arend Lijphart
- Peter Delete
- Konrad Löw
- Richard Lowenthal
- Paul Magnette
- Hanns W. Maull
- Renate Mayntz
- John J. Mearsheimer
- Hans -Joachim Mengel
- Robert Michels
- Ralph Miliband
- Subrata K. Mitra
- Hans Morgenthau
- Herfried Münkler
- Wolf- Dieter Narr
- Gero Neugebauer, political sociology and focus empirical research on political parties, Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin.
- Franz Neumann
- Julian Nida- Rümelin
- Dieter Nohlen
- Joseph S. Nye
- Claus Offe
- Reinhard Opitz
- Franz Urban Pappi
- Björn Pätzoldt
- Anton Pelinka
- Fritz Plasser
- Nicos Poulantzas
- Adam Przeworski
- Joachim Raschke
- Peter Reichel
- Alois Riklin
- Thomas Risse
- Volker Rittberger
- Stein Rokkan
- Hartmut Rosa
- Rudolph Joseph Rummel
- Giovanni Sartori
- Fritz W. Scharpf
- Frank Schimmelfennig
- Manfred G. Schmidt
- Carl Schmitt
- Hans -Peter Schwarz
- Klaus Segbers
- Jürgen Seifert
- Dieter Senghaas
- Alexander Siedschlag
- Quentin Skinner
- Kurt Sontheimer
- Winfried Steffani
- Dolf Sternberger
- Rudolf Steinberg
- Johano Strasser
- Melanie Tatur
- Bassam Tibi
- Emmanuel Todd
- John Varwick
- Sidney Verba
- Fritz Vilmar
- Eric Voegelin
- Stephen M. Walt
- Franz Walter
- Kenneth Waltz
- Werner Weidenfeld
- Rudolf Wild Man
- Wichard Woyke
- Howard Zinn
- Michael Zürn, Dean of the Hertie School of Governance (Berlin)
Known as a politician
- Rocco Buttiglione, most recently a professor of political science at the Università San Pio V in Rome.
- Micheline Calmy -Rey, Federal Councillor, acting Foreign Minister of Switzerland
- Marion Caspers- Merk, lecturer at the College of Public Administration in Kehl
- Milovan Djilas, Yugoslav politicians to 1954 ( break with Tito )
- Björn Engholm, 1981/82 Federal Minister, 1988/93 MP Schleswig -Holstein ( and SPD Federal Chairman), graduated as Dipl.-Pol. HWP Hamburg
- Heinz Fischer, Austrian Federal President, Professor of Political Science at Innsbruck
- Ólafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland since 1996 ( he established the Department of Political Science in Iceland and taught 18 years at the University of Reykjavík. )
- Henry Kissinger, a member of the faculty of Harvard University, Department of Government and at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University
- Helmut Kohl, MP Rhineland -Palatinate 1976/82, 1982/1998 (total ) German chancellor since esp. elder statesman; doctorate in Heidelberg political scientist as Bernhard Vogel
- Horst Köhler, Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany retired
- Hans Maier, longtime Bavarian State Minister of Education and Culture
- Heinrich Neisser, former minister and second president of the National Council in Austria, Professor of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck
- Peter of Oertzen, SPD politician, Minister of Education and Professor of Political Science in Hannover
- Yvonne Ploetz, Die Linke, MP A.d (2010-2013)
- Thorsten Schäfer - Gümbel, top candidate of the SPD in Hesse state parliament election 18 January 2009
- Rudolf Sharping, former Minister President of Rhineland -Palatinate, the SPD chairman and Defense Minister
- Gesine Schwan, 2004 and 2009 candidate for the office of the German Federal President, Rector of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt ( Oder)
- Ralf Stegner, Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group and since 2007 state chairman of the SPD in Schleswig-Holstein
- Bernhard Vogel, Rhineland- Palatinate and Thuringian Minister President, 1960-1967 Research assistant and lecturer at the University of Heidelberg
- Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States of America
Other
- Frédéric Beigbeder, a writer
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, historian
- Joseph of Sun Rock, writer
- Political scientist
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