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2 unusual facts about Political Science


Discourse about the Provision of Money

Discourse about the Provision of Money (Italian: Discorso sopra la provisione del danaro) is a 1502 work by Italian political scientist and writer Niccolò Machiavelli.

Political science

A focus on studying political behavior, rather than institutions or interpretation of legal texts, characterized early behavioral political science, including work by Robert Dahl, Philip Converse, and in the collaboration between sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld and public opinion scholar Bernard Berelson.


Adamu Aliero

He began undergraduate studies in 1977 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree Political Science in 1980.

Alan Abramowitz

Alan I. Abramowitz (born 1947) is an American political scientist and author, known for his research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties in political science.

Amber Boykins

Other announced candidates were fellow State Representative Yaphett El-Amin, former State Representative Derio Gambaro, former St. Louis Alderman Kenny Jones, and political science professor Jeff Smith.

Amy Tuck

Tuck, a native of tiny Maben in Oktibbeha County in north central Mississippi, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a Master of Public Administration degree from the Mississippi State University and a Juris Doctor degree from Mississippi College School of Law.

Arsinée Khanjian

She has a bachelor's degree in French and Spanish from Concordia University and a master's degree in political science from the University of Toronto.

Arthur F. Bentley

Arthur Fisher Bentley (October 16, 1870 in Freeport, Illinois – May 21, 1957 in Paoli, Indiana) was an American political scientist and philosopher who worked in the fields of epistemology, logic and linguistics and who contributed to the development of a behavioral methodology of political science.

Ben Savage

Savage interned for U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA at the time) in 2003 as a requirement for completing his studies at Stanford University, where he graduated in 2004 with a degree in Political Science and as a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.

Bill Watterson

Later, when Watterson was creating names for the characters in his comic strip, he decided upon Calvin (after the Protestant reformer John Calvin) and Hobbes (after the social philosopher Thomas Hobbes), allegedly as a "tip of the hat" to the political science department at Kenyon.

Calculating Visions: Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights

The author, Mark Stern, is a professor of Political Science at University of South Florida, and has written multiple essays, short critiques and articles about the subject of the book.

Carmen Everts

Carmen Everts (born 12 April 1968 in Wilhelmshaven) is a German politician, political scientist and civil servant, a former member of the Parliament of Hesse for the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and an expert on political extremism.

Carolina Tohá

Tohá has a law degree from the University of Chile and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Milan.

Chloe Johnson

Chloe graduated from Rangeview High School in 2007, and is currently studying political science at The University of Colorado Denver and is scheduled to graduate in the Spring or Summer of 2011.

Chris Korwin-Kuczynski

He was born Chris Korwin-Kuczynski in Toronto, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from York University.

Ciro Rodriguez

He graduated with his entering class from Harlandale High School and then briefly attended San Antonio College, but subsequently graduated from St. Mary’s University with a B.A. in Political Science.

Edward C. Banfield

Edward Christie Banfield (1916–1999) was an American political scientist, best known as the author of The Moral Basis of a Backward Society (1958), and The Unheavenly City (1970).

Frank-Markus Barwasser

After working for the local newspaper, Main-Post, he studied political science, history and ethnology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Salamanca.

Georgia's 4th congressional district election, 2006

Merle Black, a political science professor at Emory University in Atlanta, expressed a similar sentiment, "An incumbent who is forced into a runoff is a serious sign of weakness.

Hagop Pakradounian

Pakradounian, who has a degree in political science, is the current Member of Parliament representing the Armenian Revolutionary Federation in the Lebanese Parliament from the Metn Region.

Halvor Stenstadvold

He graduated with the mag.art. degree (PhD equivalent) in political science in 1971 with a paper Det norske Studentersamfund. En debattanalytisk studie, on the Norwegian Students' Society.

John Bellamy Foster

In 1976 Foster moved to Canada and entered the political science graduate program at York University in Toronto, where he studied with Neal Wood, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Gabriel Kolko, Robert Cox, and Robert Albritton, among other noted critical thinkers.

John Ruggie

Ruggie has a BA in politics and history from McMaster University in Canada; a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley; a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from McMaster; and a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from University of Waterloo.

Joseph Wu

He served as a teacher and research assistant in the political science department of Ohio State University in the United States, and as deputy director of the Institute of International Relations of National Chengchi University in Taiwan.

Kenneth Zebrowski, Jr.

Zebrowski graduated from Clarkstown Schools before receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree (Magna cum Laude) in political science from the State University of New York at Albany and his Juris Doctor degree from the Seton Hall University School of Law.

Kevin Howell

Kevin Howell (born October 7, 1977) is an author, political science professor, and black belt Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under André Galvão.

National Intelligence Service of Brazil

Alfred Stepan, a professor of political science at Columbia University, observed that the SNI differed from similar agencies in other countries.

Nina Græger

Graeger got her cand.polit. (equivalent to MPhil) in political science at the University of Oslo in 1994 and defended her doctorate in political science at the same institution in 2007.

Oskar Peterlini

Recently he was awarded the Doctor in Social and economic science at the Faculty of Political science and Social sciences of the University of Innsbruck.

P. A. Sangma

After completing his graduation in (B.A. (Hons.) from St. Anthony's College, Shillong, he went to Dibrugarh University in Assam for his Masters degree in Political science.

Paul Chaffey

At the University of Oslo he minored in political science in 1985–1986 before minoring in history in 1988–1989.

Per-Kristian Foss

Foss has a cand.mag. degree in political science, public law and criminology from the University of Oslo (1977) and partial graduate studies in political science.

Political religion

Scholars who have studied these phenomena include William Connolly in political science, Christoph Deutschmann in sociology, Emilio Gentile in history, Oliver O'Donovan in theology and others in psychology.

Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan

The Center has become increasingly interdisciplinary over time, drawing faculty from Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Natural Resources, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, Public Policy, Social Work, Sociology, and Statistics.

Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba candidates, 2007 Manitoba provincial election

McLeod is a manager with CanadInns, and has studied political science at the University of Winnipeg.

Rita Braver

She graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in political science, and spent a few years at WWL-TV in New Orleans as a copy girl before joining CBS in 1972 as a producer.

Rupert Taylor

He was educated at the progressive independent Dartington Hall School in Devon and completed a BA degree in Politics and Government at the University of Kent in 1980, followed by an MSc at the London School of Economics in 1981 and a PhD in Sociology at Kent, completed in 1986.

Samuel David Mendelssohn

Samuel David Nathaniel Aaron Mendelssohn (May 17, 1942 Jerusalem–September 16, 2006), known as Samuel David Mendelssohn, was a German political scientist, author and independent politician for the Free Democrats.

Sandy D'Alemberte

In 1955, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with honors from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and also attended summer school at Florida State University and the University of Virginia.

Sarah MacKenzie

Mac received her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Minnesota and her Juris Doctor degree from Duke University, and was subsequently stationed in Bosnia during the war there.

Sheikh Anwarul Haq

He graduated from D.A.V. College, Jullundur in 1936 with Economics and Political Science as his majors.

Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō

In 1991 he received a Bachelor Degree with Honours in Political Science after three years of study at the Flinders University of South Australia.

Stephen Bronner

Stephen Eric Bronner (born 19 August 1949) is a noted political philosopher and Professor (II) of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and German Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Tatu Vanhanen

Tatu Vanhanen (born April 17, 1929 in Vuoksenranta, Finland, now Ozyorskoye, Russia) is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tampere in Tampere, Finland.

Timothy Luke

Timothy W. Luke is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences as well as Program Chair of the Government and International Affairs Program, School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.

TJ Shope

He attended Coolidge High School where he graduated in 2003, and went on to attend Central Arizona College for two years, graduating in 2005, before transferring to Arizona State University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science in 2008.

United States Senate Lobby Investigation Committee

According to professor of political science Linda C. Gugin, a Minton biographer, in practice the committee's investigations were politically motivated and directed against groups that were challenging New Deal legislation.

University of Copenhagen Faculty of Social Sciences

The University of Copenhagen Faculty of Social Sciences is divided into five departments, where research and teaching are carried out in the fields of Economics, Political Science, International Politics, Management, Anthropology, Psychology and Sociology.

University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Civil Law

Majority of graduates have completed preparatory law degrees in Legal Management, Political Science, Accountancy, Philosophy, Economics, Journalism, Sociology and Communication Arts.


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A. F. K. Organski

In 1952 he started teaching at the Brooklyn College, moving in 1964 to the University of Michigan, where he became professor of political science and senior research scientist in the Institute for Social Research.

Adam C. Stacey

He returned to Michigan to pursue his collegiate education receiving a bachelor's degree in political science and a degree from the Honors College at Michigan State University in 1996.

Ahmet Taner Kışlalı

He got his PhD on "Çağdaş Türkiye'de Siyasal Güçler" (Political Powers in Contemporary Turkey) from the University of Paris, Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science.

Alexandros Skourletis

In the early 1920s, Alexandros moved to France where he studied Law and Political Science at the University of Paris.

Anne Norton

Her challenges to mainstream political science have earned her a leadership role in the Internet-based movement to reform political science that has named itself "Perestroika" (Kristen Monroe, Perestroika: The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science, Yale University Press, 2005).

Arvid Pardo

From 1972 to 1975 Pardo was coordinator of the ocean studies program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. From 1975 to 1990 he was on the USC faculty, teaching political science (1975–81) and international relations (1981–90).

Betsy Markey

After completing a degree in Political Science, Markey worked for a short period of time on the staff of U.S. Senator John A. Durkin (D-NH).

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Michael Kelway Oliver, a former professor of Political Science at McGill and President of Carleton University was the first CCPA president.

Carole Hillard

She subsequently earned a master's degree in education from South Dakota State University in 1982 and then a master's degree in political science at the University of South Dakota in 1984.

Cecilia I. Martinez

She also served on the staff for the Colorado General Assembly, while achieving a Master of Art in political science from Colorado State University.

David H. Rosenbloom

From 1971 to 1973, he visited Tel Aviv University, where he guest lectured in the field of Political Science.

David Trick

Trick holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from York University, a Master of Arts from Brandeis University, a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from the University of Toronto.

Deborah Priya Henry

degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia.

Doudou Diène

Diène holds a law degree from the University of Caen (France), a doctorate in public law from the University of Paris, a diploma in political science from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris, and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws degree from the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill, Barbados)

Eduardo Mondlane

One of António de Oliveira Salazar's most important advisers, Adriano Moreira, a political science professor who had been appointed to the post of Portugal's Minister of the Overseas (Ministro do Ultramar), met Mondlane at the United Nations when both were working there and, recognizing his qualities, tried to bring him to the Portuguese side by offering to him a post in Portuguese Mozambique's administration.

Eskil Pedersen

Born in Skien in Telemark, Pedersen has studied towards a bachelor's degree in political science, and studied courses in European and American studies at the University of Oslo.

Gerry Mackie

Before joining UCSD, Mackie was assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, a research fellow at the Australian National University, and a junior research fellow at St John's College, Oxford.

Grikor Suni

Ronald Grigor Suny, Emeritus Professor of political science at the University of Chicago, is a grandson of Grikor Mirzaian Suni.

Jalal Alamgir

Jalal Alamgir (17 January 1971 – 3 December 2011), a Bangladeshi academic, was Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and the son of prominent Awami League MP Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir.

Jalpaiguri

Nirmal Bose, Senior Cabinet Minister government of West Bengal, Member of Parliament, President Indian Political Science Association

James Fowler

James H. Fowler (born 1970), political science professor at the University of California, San Diego

Jennifer L. Lawless

She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2003 and her B.A. in from Union College in 1997; both degrees were in political science.

Kadambari Murali

She studied at Carmel Convent in Delhi’s Diplomatic Enclave before studying at Hindu College, University of Delhi for a BA (Hons) degree in Political Science.

Kaka Bag-ao

Raised in Loreto, Surigao del Norte (now part of Dinagat Islands), Bag-ao earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the De La Salle University, and her Juris Doctor (JD) degree from the Ateneo de Manila Law School.

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri

Apart from his statesmanship, he had tenured as a professor at the University of Paris and University of Nice in France, and in 2008, he assumed the professorship as a professor of political science as well as the executive directorship of the Beaconhouse National University (BNU).

Larry C. Napper

In 1983-84, Napper received an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship in the office of Representative Lee H. Hamilton.

Leon Litinetski

Between 1995 and 1997 he studied at the ORT College in Kfar Saba, before studying political science at Tel Aviv University.

Lotta Hitschmanova

In 1932 she went to Paris where she studied political science and journalism at the Sorbonne.

Lynton K. Caldwell

In 1947 he was appointed professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

M. Crawford Young

Professor Young's primary contributions to political science have come from his work on the Zairian (and later, African) state and on the politics of cultural identity in the third world, which was theoretically innovative and presaged the contemporary "instrumentalist" and "constructivist" approaches to political identity.

He has held chairmanship of the UW–Madison political science department twice (1969–72; 1984–87), and was between 1973-75 Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at the Université Nationale du Zaire.

Mohammad Amin Wakman

Amin received a Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy and Ph.D in political science, diplomatic studies and international affairs from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India .

Nilay Patel

In 2003, Patel obtained his degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago and in 2006 received his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Norwood Teague

Teague graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1988 with a degree in political science, and earned a master's degree in sports administration from Ohio University in 1992.

Patrick McKeown

In 1997, shortly after graduating from Trinity College in Dublin with a Master Degree in Economics, Political Science and Social Studies, came across a publication in The Irish Independent, which was describing experimental breathing technique discovered in Russia by a Moscow physiologist Konstantin Buteyko.

Paul Van Riper

Paul P. Van Riper (born 1916), professor emeritus of political science

Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard

His current position is as Professor of Political Theory and Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, where he has held various positions since 1991, and where he specializes in political institutions, political economy and American politics, especially issues such as elections, voting systems and constitutions.

Ragin

Charles C. Ragin, an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Arizona

Robert Consalvo

A graduate of Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Councilor Consalvo matriculated to Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Political Science.

Rosalind Wiseman

By the time she graduated with a bachelor's degree in Political Science in 1991, Wiseman had earned a second degree blackbelt in Tang Soo Do karate.

Seth McKeel

McKeel attended the University of Florida, where he graduated in 1997 with a degree in political science.

Solomon Bublick

Professor Shlomo Avineri, a leading Israeli social scientist, received the Solomon Bublick prize for 2009 in recognition of his contribution to political science and the politics of the State of Israel.

Steve Schale

Born in Kankakee, IL, Schale is a graduate of the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, where he received degrees in Political Science and History.

The enemy of my enemy

The Enemy of My Enemy, a book by professor of political science George Michael.

Theodore T. Jones

Jones graduated from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia in 1965, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Political Science.

Todd Levett

Levett received his B.A. in Political Science from American University and completed graduate coursework in Homeland Security Leadership from the University of Connecticut.

Tom Ginsburg

Tom Ginsburg (born February 22, 1968) is the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science

The Institute of International Relations and Political Science (IIRPS) of Vilnius University was established on 7 February 1992 by the agreement between Vilnius University and the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania.

Vinod Kumar Dwivedi

He got an MA in Political Science, the Sangeet Prabhakar (Vocal) from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, and the Sangeet Alankar (Vocal) from Gandharav Mandal, and passed the UGC NET lectureship examination (Music).

William Brandon Lacy Campos

He continued his education at the Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa Valley, North Carolina, the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, and the University of Minnesota where he received a bachelor's degree in political science.