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title: "List of political scientists"
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== S ==
Larry Sabato – University of Virginia professor, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, and popular political analyst
Scott Sagan – Stanford professor and notable critic of deterrence theory
Slobodan Samardžić – research includes political ideas and institutions, federalism, constitutionalism, and European Union
David Samuels – comparativist scholar of Brazilian politics and political institutions
Eliz Sanasarian – professor of political science at the University of Southern California
Emanuele Santi – Italian development economist, political scientist and author
Virginia Sapiro – American political psychologist
Austin Sarat – public law specialist
Giovanni Sartori – comparativist, expert on constitutional theory and party systems
E.E. Schattschneider – early political parties expert, author of Party Government and The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America
Steven Schier – specialist in American politics
Warner R. Schilling – specialist in international relations and military technology
Kay Lehman Schlozman – J. Joseph Moakley Professor of political science at Boston College; expert in American political participation and gender and politics
Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration Professor of International Relations in the Pardee School of Global Studies and professor of political science at Boston University
Carsten Q. Schneider – German professor of political science at Central European University; author of books and journal articles on applied methods of social science research
Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey – professor in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Victoria Schuck – professor of Political Science who spent much of her career (1940–1976) at Mount Holyoke College
Ekaterina Schulmann – associate professor of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and legal specialist
Gesine Schwan – political scientist, president of the Viadrina European University, and nominated twice as a candidate for the federal presidential elections of Germany
James C. Scott – political economist, Southeast Asia area specialist
Mitchell A. Seligson – Centennial Professor of Political Science Vanderbilt University; founder of Latin American Public Opinion Project and AmericasBarometer
Donna Shalala – former U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services
Mizanur Rahman Shelley – minister of the Government of Bangladesh, political analyst, political scientist and educationalist
Matthew Soberg Shugart – scholar of constitutional design and electoral systems
Yekaterina Shulman – scholar specializing in lawmaking
Jim Sidanius – American political scientist
Beth Simmons – international relations scholar focusing on human rights
Herbert A. Simon – Nobel Prize-winning professor at Carnegie Mellon; a founder of artificial intelligence research; received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago
Valeria Sinclair-Chapman – studies American political institutions, the representation of minority groups in the United States Congress, and minority political participation
Theda Skocpol – comparative sociologist; former president of American Political Science Association, Harvard University
Stephen Skowronek – presidency and American political development scholar (Yale University)
Anne-Marie Slaughter – scholar of international relations, former president of the American Society of International Law
Jean Edward Smith – political economist, biographer, international relations, constitutional law
Rogers Smith – Pulitzer Prize finalist, American politics expert at the University of Pennsylvania
Steven S. Smith – American politics, congressional politics, Russian politics; director, Weidenbaum Center
Peverill Squire – Americanist
Allison Stanger – American political scientist and the Russell J. Leng '60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College
Michael Steed – British political scientist, developed the concept of "Steed swing" as distinct from "Butler swing"
Alfred Stepan – comparativist, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University
Zeev Sternhell – theorist, political historian of political ideology
John G. Stoessinger – international relations theorist, author of The Might of Nations: World Politics in our Time
Donald E. Stokes – former dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton; expert on elections
Susan Stokes – Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science department of the University of Chicago and the faculty director of the Chicago Center on Democracy
Herbert Storing – American politics expert
Susan Strange – British expert in international relations; taught at the London School of Economics
Dara Strolovitch – studies the politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the context of intersectional societal inequality
Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila – Nigerian political scientist, author of The Rise and Fall of Kano Peoples Party, secretary-general of People's Redemption Party 1980–1983, campaign manager of Nigerian People's Party –1983
Carol Swain – professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University; expert on immigration and race
Stephen Szabo – American political scientist and educator who specializes in foreign policy

== T ==
Rein Taagepera – comparativist, expert on electoral systems and history of government
Colin Talbot – chair of Government at the University of Manchester; adviser to various parliamentary committees of the United Kingdom
Marco Tarchi – professor at University of Florence, right-wing militant and creator of Nouvelle Droite
Katherine Tate – professor of Political Science at Brown University
Merze Tate – international relations expert; first African-American woman to attend University of Oxford and receive a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University
Anthony Teasdale – specialist in European Union politics
Sally Terry – political science professor at Tufts University from 1975 until her retirement in 2002
Jeanne Theoharis – Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College
Dennis Thompson – political theorist at Harvard University
Marianne Thyrring
J. Ann Tickner – feminist international relations theorist and current president of the International Studies Association (ISA)
Virginia Tilley – specialist on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Charles Tilly – professor at Columbia University, his work includes contentious politics and evolution of modern states
Herbert Tingsten – professor of political science at Stockholm University
Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay – Canadian political scientist, former senior academic administrator, expert on Kashmir and India-Pakistan
George Tsebelis – game theorist notable for his general theory of veto players and for describing the Robinson Crusoe fallacy
Jeffrey K. Tulis – professor at The University of Texas at Austin

== U ==
Patrick Utomi – political economist