List of political scientists
The list of political scientists is sorted alphabetically and contains researchers who have made significant contributions to the field of political science .
Well-known political scientist
Known as a scientist
- Wolfgang Abendroth , professor of scientific policy at the Philipps University of Marburg
- Hermann Adam , author of popular textbooks on political science and economics
- Emanuel Adler
- Johannes Agnoli , from 1967 to 1990 professor at the Free University of Berlin
- Detlev Albers , Professor of Political Science at the University of Bremen
- Ulrich von Alemann , Head of the Chair of Political Science II and former Dean of the Philosophical Faculty at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf
- Gabriel Almond , prominent American representative of comparative politics
- Elmar Altvater , professor emeritus at the Otto Suhr Institute
- Hannah Arendt , publicist and political theorist.
- Richard K. Ashley
- Robert Axelrod , representative of rational choice theory
- Arnulf Baring
- Michael Barnett
- Claus-Ekkehard Bärsch
- Stefano Bartolini
- Rudolph Bauer , Prof. i. R. of the University of Bremen
- Christine Bauhardt
- Isaiah Berlin
- Udo Bermbach
- Seyla Benhabib
- Arthur Benz
- Klaus von Beyme
- Hanne-Margret Birckenbach
- Dieter Blumenwitz
- Thorsten Bonacker
- Ahron Bregman
- Manfred Brocker
- Peter Brokmeier
- Tanja Brühl
- Hubertus Buchstein
- Hedley Bull
- Andreas Buro
- Heinrich Busshoff
- Barry Buzan
- William E. Connolly
- Edvin Kanka Ćudić
- Ernst-Otto Czempiel
- Christopher Daase
- Frank Decker
- Frank Deppe
- Karl 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
- James D. Fearon
- Jürgen Fijalkowski
- Martha Finnemore
- Ossip K. Flechtheim
- Rainer Forst
- Ernst Fraenkel
- Georg Fülberth
- Francis Fukuyama
- Thomas Gehring
- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
- Edgar Grande
- Sylvia Greiffenhagen
- Michael Th. Greven
- Peter Grottian
- Jürgen Habermas
- Rolf Hanisch
- Jürgen Harrer
- Sebastian Heilmann
- Eike Hennig
- Wilhelm Hennis
- Joachim Jens Hesse
- Joachim Hirsch
- Uwe Holtz
- Irving Louis Horowitz
- Rudolf Hrbek
- Samuel P. Huntington
- Wolfgang Ismayr
- Hans-Adolf Jacobsen
- Eckhard Jesse
- Uwe Jun
- Steffen Kailitz
- Karl Kaiser
- Werner Kaltefleiter
- Otto Keck
- Paul Kennedy
- Robert Keohane
- Peter Graf Kielmansegg
- Marianne Kneuer , IPSA President (since 2018), member of the Executive Committee (since 2014) and DVPW & DVfP , Professor of Political Science at the University of Hildesheim (since 2011)
- Christoph Knill
- Eugene Kogon
- Beate Kohler-Koch
- Karl-Rudolf Korte , University of Duisburg-Essen , NRW School of Governance
- Stephen D. Krasner
- Friedrich Kratochwil
- Peter A. Kraus
- Eva Kreisky
- Gert Krell
- Ekkehart Krippendorff
- Charles A. Kupchan
- Will Kymlicka
- Bernd Ladwig
- Gerd Langguth
- Paul F. Lazarsfeld
- Claus Leggewie , Professor of Political Science at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen
- Kurt Lenk
- Wolfgang Leonhard
- Arend Lijphart
- Peter Lösche
- Konrad Loew
- Richard Loewenthal
- Paul Magnette
- Christoph Marcinkowski
- Hanns W. Maull
- Renate Mayntz
- John J. Mearsheimer
- Hans-Joachim Mengel
- Wolfgang Merkel , Director of the Department of Democracy and Democratization (Berlin Social Science Center; since 2004), Professor of Comparative Political Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
- Robert Michels
- Siegfried Mielke
- Ralph Miliband
- Subrata K. Mitra
- Andrew Moravcsik
- Hans Morgenthau
- Harald Muller
- Herfried Münkler
- Wolf-Dieter fool
- Gero Neugebauer , focus on empirical political sociology and party research, Otto Suhr Institute at the Free University of Berlin.
- Franz Neumann
- Julian Nida-Rümelin
- Dieter Nohlen
- Joseph S. Nye
- Claus Offe
- Reinhard Opitz
- Franz Urban Pappi
- Björn Pätzoldt
- Werner J. Patzelt
- Anton Pelinka
- Fritz Plasser
- Nicos Poulantzas
- Adam Przeworski
- Joachim Raschke
- Peter Reichel
- Alois Riklin
- Thomas Risse
- Volker Rittberger
- Wilfried Röhrich
- Stone roccan
- Hartmut Rosa
- John G. Ruggie
- 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
- Leo Strauss
- Melanie Tatur
- Bassam Tibi
- Emmanuel Todd
- Eugenie Trützschler von Falkenstein
- Johannes Tuchel
- Johannes Varwick
- Sidney Verba
- Fritz Vilmar
- Eric Voegelin
- Stephen M. Walt
- Franz Walter
- Kenneth Waltz
- Werner Weidenfeld
- Alexander Wendt
- Rudolf Wildenmann
- Klaus-Dieter Wolf
- Wichard Woyke
- Ümit Yazıcıoğlu , professor at the Free University of Berlin
- Howard Zinn
- Michael Zürn , Dean of the Hertie School of Governance (Berlin)
Known as a politician
- Rocco Buttiglione , most recently Professor of Political Science at the Università San Pio V in Rome.
- Micheline Calmy-Rey , Federal Councilor, former Foreign Minister of Switzerland
- Marion Caspers-Merk , lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Kehl
- Milovan Đilas , Yugoslav politician until 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 in Innsbruck
- Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson , President of Iceland since 1996 (He established political science in Iceland and taught at Reykjavík University for 18 years.)
- Henry Kissinger , faculty member at Harvard University, Department of Government and Center for International Affairs at Harvard University
- Helmut Kohl , MP Rhineland-Palatinate 1976/82, 1982/1998 (general) German Chancellor, then v. a. Statesman; PhD in Political Science from Heidelberg
- Horst Köhler , Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany a. D.
- Hans Maier , Bavarian State Minister for Education and Culture for many years
- Heinrich Neisser , former Minister and 2nd President of the National Council in Austria, Professor of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck
- Peter von Oertzen , SPD politician, minister of education and professor of political science in Hanover
- Yvonne Ploetz , Die Linke, retired Member of the Bundestag (2010-2013)
- Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel , top candidate of the Hessian SPD for the state election on January 18, 2009
- Rudolf Scharping , former Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, SPD Chairman and Federal Minister of Defense
- Gesine Schwan , 2004 and 2009 candidate for the office of German Federal President, Rector of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)
- Ralf Stegner , chairman of the SPD state parliamentary group and since 2007 regional chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein SPD
- Bernhard Vogel , Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia, 1960–1967 research assistant and lecturer at the University of Heidelberg
- Woodrow Wilson , 28th President of the United States of America
Other
- Frédéric Beigbeder , writer
- Arthur M. Schlesinger , historian
- Joseph von Sonnenfels , writer