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The following is a list of notable political scientists. Political science is the scientific study of politics, a social science dealing with systems of governance and power.

== A ==
Robert Abelson – Yale University psychologist and political scientist with special interests in statistics and logic
Henry J. Abraham – American scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law and James Hart Professor of Government Emeritus at the University of Virginia
Alan Abramowitz – expert in American politics, political parties, ideological realignment, elections, and voting behavior; professor at Emory University
Paul R. Abramson – American political scientist known for his research and writing on American, European, and Israeli elections and professor of political science at Michigan State University
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod – Palestinian-American academic and professor for political science at Northwestern University for 34 years
As'ad AbuKhalil – Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus
Martha Ackelsberg – American political scientist and women's studies scholar at Smith College
Brooke Ackerly – expert on grounded normative theory, feminist theory, feminist international relations, and scholar activism, professor at Vanderbilt University
David Adamany – public law specialist and president of Temple University
Charles R. Adrian – American professor of political science who specialized in municipal politics
Vinod Aggarwal – American political scientist specializing in international political economy
Robert Agranoff – American political scientist and public administration scholar and author
Arun Agrawal – political scientist in the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan
Eqbal Ahmed – Pakistani political scientist and Third World scholar
Janet Ajzenstat – Canadian political historian at McMaster University
Adeolu Akande – professor of political science at the Igbinedion University
Bolaji Akinyemi – Nigerian professor of political science
Bethany Albertson – American political psychologist
Daniel P. Aldrich – American political scientist, public policy and Asian studies scholar at Northeastern University
John Aldrich – political parties expert at Duke University, author of Why Parties?
John R. Alford – political science professor at Rice University who researches genopolitics
Hayward Alker – professor of international relations at the University of Southern California, MIT and Yale who specialized in research methods, core international relations theory, international politics, and security
Danielle Allen – American classicist and political scientist
Graham Allison – early proponent of the bureaucratic politics model, author of Essence of Decision, national security specialist, former dean of Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University
Gabriel Almond – originator of the culturist movement in comparative politics
Gar Alperovitz – political economist
Karen Alter – American academic who conducts interdisciplinary work on international law's influence in international and domestic politics
Scott Althaus – professor of political science and communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the director of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the university
Micah Altman – American social scientist who conducts research in social science informatics
R. Michael Alvarez – professor of political science at California Institute of Technology and co-director of the Voting Technology Project
Tabata Amaral – Brazilian political scientist and federal deputy for São Paulo
Ambedkar – jurist, economist and chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of India
Thomas Ambrosio – professor of political science in the Criminal Justice and Political Science Department at North Dakota State University
Kristi Andersen – American political scientist at Syracuse University who studies party realignment
Walter K. Andersen – American academic known for his studies of the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Benedict Anderson – Chinese-born Irish political scientist and historian in the US, author of Imagined Communities
Lisa Anderson – American political scientist and former president of the American University in Cairo
Walter Truett Anderson – American political scientist, social psychologist, and author of non-fiction books and articles
William Anderson – specialist in public administration
Mina Andreeva – Bulgarian political scientist and chief spokesperson for the European Commission
Marimba Ani – anthropologist and African Studies scholar best known for her work Yurugu
Stephen Ansolabehere – professor of government at Harvard University
William Antholis – Greek-American political scientist, director and CEO of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia
David Apter – American political scientist and sociologist; Henry J. Heinz Professor of Comparative Political and Social Development and senior research scientist at Yale University
Asher Arian – American and Israeli political scientist; expert on politics of Israel and election studies
Hadley Arkes – American political scientist and the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions emeritus at Amherst College
John Alexander Armstrong – professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Larry Arnhart – Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northern Illinois University
Richard Ashcraft – American political theorist and professor of political science at UCLA
Herb Asher – professor emeritus of political science at Ohio State University
Richard K. Ashley – postmodernist scholar of international relations
Ronald Asmus – diplomat and political analyst and then senior think tank policy analyst
Scott Atran – American-French political and cultural anthropologist
Sharon Wright Austin – director of the African-American Studies Program, professor of political science at the University of Florida
Deborah Avant – American political scientist at the University of Denver
Bill Avery – politician from the state of Nebraska and retired political scientist who specializes in international trade and foreign relations
Robert Axelrod – expert on game theory and complexity theory, wrote extensively on the Prisoner's Dilemma, former president of American Political Science Association
Julia Azari – American political scientist, professor of political science at Marquette University and contributor to FiveThirtyEight
Jeremy Azrael – American political scientist known for his expertise on the economy of the Soviet Union