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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.

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.

Benjamin Radcliff

Benjamin Radcliff (born August 28, 1963) is an American political scientist and a professor at the University of Notre Dame.

Cambodia, Pol Pot, and the United States

Cambodia, Pol Pot, and the United States: The Faustian Pact is a 1991 book by Michael Haas, professor of political science at the University of Hawaii.

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.

Dataverse

This project benefited considerably from their experience with the earlier Virtual Data Center (VDC) project, which spanned 1999-2006 and was organized by Micah Altman, Gary King, and Sidney Verba as a collaboration between the Harvard-MIT Data Center (now part of IQSS) and the Harvard University Library.

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.

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).

Harold Foote Gosnell

Harold Foote Gosnell (December 24, 1896 – January 9, 1997) was an American political scientist and author, known for his research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties in political science.

Harvey Goldberg

Harvey's apartment and favorite restaurants were the scene of numerous rendezvous not only with historians, but activists and leaders including popular historian Howard Zinn, Chinese scholar and good friend Jean Chesneaux, litigator/civil rights activist Arthur Kinoy, esq., anti-poverty activist Frances Fox Piven and internationalist writer Susan George.

Iris Kelso

In 1999, Kelso, along with two other New Orleans figures, political scientist and commentator Ed Renwick and former Lieutenant Governor Jimmy Fitzmorris, was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.

J. G. A. Pocock

In the 1960s and early '70s, he, (introducing "languages" of political thought) along with Quentin Skinner (focusing on authorial intention), and John Dunn (stressing biography), united informally to undertake this approach as the "Cambridge School" of the history of political thought.

Jered Carr

Jered B. Carr is a political scientist, professor of urban policy and a former Policy analyst for the Florida State Legislature in the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability.

Jesse Macy

Jesse Macy (June 21, 1842 – November 2, 1919) was an American political scientist and historian of the late 19th and early 20th century, specializing in the history of American political parties, party systems, and the Civil War.

Meta-power

The idea has stemmed from work by sociologists such as Tom R. Burns and Peter Hall, the economist Thomas Baumgartner, as well as by political scientists such as James Rosenau and Stephen D. Krasner.

Michael Herb

Michael Herb is an American political scientist who gained prominence through his All in the Family thesis of Arab monarchies.

Nonkilling Global Political Science

Nonkilling Global Political Science is a 2002 book written by political scientist Glenn D. Paige.

Norman Schofield

Norman James Schofield (born January 30, 1944 in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland) is a Scottish-American political scientist, the Dr. William Taussig Professor of Political Economy at the Washington University in St. Louis.

Open Marxism

Thus, Open Marxism has served as the basis for neo-Gramscian research in international relations by Stephen Gill and Robert W. Cox, although some question the openness of metaphors such as "war of position" and "historic bloc" for analysis of micro-interactions and resistance within contemporary neoliberalism.

Otokar Březina

Březina is also noted for the friendships which he formed with other Czech cultural figures, including the Symbolist sculptor František Bílek, the literary critic, sociologist and political scientist Emanuel Chalupný, the poet, prose writer, and priest Jakub Deml, and the philosopher and writer Ladislav Klíma.

Political Studies Association

In 2000, to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the PSA also awarded one-off Lifetime Achievement Awards to Brian Barry, Jean Blondel, David Butler, Bernard Crick, Stanley Hoffmann and Richard Rose.

Robert E. Horn

Robert E. Horn is an American political scientist who taught at Harvard, Columbia, and Sheffield (U.K.) universities.

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.

Terry Bouricius

Terrill "Terry" Bouricius is an American political scientist and a former member of the Vermont House of Representatives (1991–2001).

The Frankenfood Myth

The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution is a book written by Hoover Institution research fellow Henry I. Miller and political scientist Gregory Conko and published by Praeger Publishers published in 2004.

The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion

The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion is a 1992 non-fiction book by political scientist John Zaller that examines the processes by which individuals form and express political opinions and the implications this has for public opinion research.

Tiao-kuai

According to political scientist Kenneth Lieberthal, "The former coordinates according to function (for example, environment); the latter coordinates according to the needs of the locality that it governs."

Voting matters

The journal has also republished several seminal papers on STV by Thomas Hare, Henry Richmond Droop, and Brian Meek.

Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities

The Center hosts the Solomon Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities, which feature leading thinkers such as Dipesh Chakrabarty, Robin D. G. Kelley, Wendy Brown, and Cathy Davidson in events that are free and open to the public.


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Alma Mater Europaea

In 2010, Alma Mater Europaea was officially established, with Prof. dr. Felix Unger being appointed as its first president, while the German political scientist prof. dr. Werner Weidenfeld became the first rector, and the Slovenian lawyer and diplomat prof. dr. Ludvik Toplak the first prorector.

Anti-Muslim violence in India

According to research by political scientist Paul Brass, though these acts of violence are usually referred to as "riots," they habitually become massacres of Muslims and pogroms with relatively few Hindus being killed.

Australian Public Service

Other commentators, including political scientist Richard Mulgan, have argued that rhetoric in 2013 about a bloated APS is ill-informed and unsustainable, if service benchmarks are to be met.

Barghouti

Tamim al-Barghouti (born 1977), Palestinian poet and political scientist, son of Mourid Barghouti

Beatrice Heuser

Beatrice Heuser (Bangkok, 1961) is an historian and political scientist.

Casandra Stark

Her films often featured the music of one of her bands such as Menace Dement and/or the Trees a duo with guitarist and political scientist Frank Morales with whom Casandra has a child named Frankie.

Cool It

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, a 2007 book by the Danish statistician and political scientist Bjørn Lomborg

David Ridgen

Ridgen's 2009 documentary, American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein, co-directed and co-produced with Nicolas Rossier, was about the life of controversial political scientist Norman Finkelstein.

Dennis H. Holtschneider

In 2007, Holtschneider affirmed a 4-3 vote by DePaul University's Board on Promotion and Tenure (a faculty board) denying tenure to controversial political scientist Norman Finkelstein.

Eidelberg

Paul Eidelberg, an American-Israeli political scientist, author and lecturer

Emilie Benes Brzezinski

Shortly after graduating from Wellesley, Emilie Benes, herself a grandniece of Czechoslovakia's former president Edvard Beneš and granddaughter of his brother Vojta, married Zbigniew Brzezinski, a political scientist who served as an adviser to President Carter.

Eric Williams Memorial Collection

Angela Davis, civil and women’s rights activist, was the featured speaker in 2003, and in honour of the Haitian Bicentennial, University of Virginia political scientist Robert Fatton, Jr., and prize-winning author Edwidge Danticat spoke in 2004.

Gerardo Sicat

A graduate of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he founded the Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS), currently an attached agency to NEDA, and contested in the 1999 selection of the University of the Philippines president together with prominent figures such as former senator Leticia Ramos-Shahani and sociologist Ledivina V. Cariño but ultimately lost to political scientist Francisco Nemenzo, Jr.

Globalism

American political scientist Joseph Nye, co-founder of the international relations theory of neoliberalism, generalized the term to argue that globalism refers to any description and explanation of a world which is characterized by networks of connections that span multi-continental distances; while globalization refers to the increase or decline in the degree of globalism.

Günther Anders

Anders was married three times, to the Jewish-German philosopher and political scientist Hannah Arendt from 1929 to 1937, to the Jewish-Austrian writer Elisabeth Freundlich from 1945 to 1955, and to Jewish-American pianist Charlotte Lois Zelka in 1957.

Haymana, Ankara

Haymana Prison has had a fair share of politicians as inmates over the years, including historian Fikret Başkaya, professor of foreign relations Haluk Gerger, Workers' Party (Turkey) leader Doğu Perinçek, political scientist Yalçın Küçük, and playwright Bilgesu Erenus (these last two jointly published their Haymana memoirs).

Hernes

Helga Hernes (born 1938), Norwegian political scientist, diplomat and politician

Hill College

Ruben Armiñana, political scientist and president of Sonoma State University

Hindu Janajagruti Samiti

Christophe Jaffrelot, a political scientist, considers the HJS to be an offshoot of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Historical rankings of Presidents of the United States

Political scientist Walter Dean Burnham noted the "dichotomous or schizoid profiles" of presidents, which can make some hard to classify.

Holger Henke

Holger Wilhelm Henke (* 25 September 1960 in Viersen (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a political scientist and works as assistant provost at York College, City University of New York.

Janne Haaland Matláry

Dame Janne Haaland Matláry (born 27 April 1957) is a Norwegian political scientist, writer, and politician, who formerly represented the Christian Democratic Party.

John Keegan

" The political scientist Richard Betts also criticized Keegan's understanding of the political dimensions of war, writing that Keegan was "a naïf about politics.

Julius Mader

Julius Mader, alias Thomas Bergner, (born October 7, 1928 in the village of Radejčín, now part of Řehlovice in the Czech Republic, died May 17, 2000 in Berlin) was a German jurist, political scientist, journalist and writer.

Just price

The political scientist James C. Scott, for example, showed how this ideology could be used as a method of resisting authority in "The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Subsistence and Rebellion in Southeast Asia" (1976).

Kees van der Pijl

Kees van der Pijl (born 15 June 1947) is a Dutch political scientist who is emeritus professor of international relations at the University of Sussex.

Korhonen

Pekka Korhonen (born 1955), Finnish political scientist and professor

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Established in 1985, it was initially headed by sociologist Renate Mayntz (1985/86), followed by political scientist Fritz W. Scharpf (1986-2003), both of whom exerted a profound influence on the institute's research and public image.

National Development Front

University of Haifa political scientist David Bukay lists the NDF as a "fundamentalist and subversive group".

Operation Cedar Falls

While writing from completely different, if not opposed, political points of view, both journalist Stanley Karnow and political scientist Guenter Lewy cite the deportations of Operation Cedar Falls as an example of a larger military strategy which deliberately displaced hundreds of thousands of the very people the US claimed to defend and thus alienated them from the South Vietnamese regime and their American allies.

Panarin

Igor Panarin (born 1958), Russian professor, academician, political scientist, writer and intelligence analyst

Paul Henry

Paul B. Henry (1942–1993), U.S. Congressman and political scientist

Peter Seidel

(This book is based on a proposed new discipline by eminent political scientist John H. Herz to be called Survival Science. Chapters written by scholars from various disciplines explain how their field relates to the subject of human survival. If we are to confront survival seriously, we must look at the broad range of subjects that affect it.)

Policy

Theodore J. Lowi, famous Americal political scientist proposed four types of policy namely distributive, redistributive, regulatory and constituent in his article 'Four systems of Policy, Politics and Choice' and in 'American Business, Public Policy, Case Studies and Political Theory'.

Political Film Society

Political scientist Michael Haas, who serves on the board, has been the CEO of the Political Film Society since its inception and is now the Society's President.

Politics of Houston

As of 2012, according to Rice University political scientist Bob Stein, voters in District A tend to be older people, conservative, and White American, and many follow the Tea Party movement.

Québécois nation motion

Leading candidate and political scientist Michael Ignatieff mused that Quebec should be recognized as a nation in the Canadian constitution.

Raphael Tuck

A political scientist and lawyer, he was constitutional advisor to the Premier of Manitoba and worked in special research at the Department of Labour in Ottawa, both in Canada.

Rensenbrink

John Rensenbrink (born 1928), American political scientist, philosopher, journalist, educational innovator, and political activist

Riadh Sidaoui

Riadh Sidaoui (رياض الصيداوي) (born in Bou Hajla, 14 May 1967) is a Tunisian writer and political scientist who has a Swiss nationality.

Robert Lane

Robert E. Lane, American political scientist and political psychologist

Seton-Watson

Hugh Seton-Watson (1916–1984), British historian and political scientist

State capitalism

In his book, The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations, political scientist Ian Bremmer describes China as the primary driver for the rise of state capitalism as a challenge to the free market economies of the developed world, particularly in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

Stoenescu

Dan Stoenescu (born 1980), Romanian political scientist and journalist

Tamás Fellegi

Tamás László Fellegi (Budapest, January 7, 1956), Hungarian politician, jurist, political scientist, businessman, who served as Minister of National Development in Viktor Orbán's government from May 29, 2010 to December 14, 2011.

Walter Anderson

Walter Truett Anderson (born 1933), political scientist, futurist, author

Who Rules America?

In his introduction, Domhoff writes that the book was inspired by the work of four men: sociologists E. Digby Baltzell, C. Wright Mills, economist Paul Sweezy, and political scientist Robert A. Dahl.

William Yandell Elliott

His son Ward Elliott was a notable political scientist, and his other son, David is also a political scientist.