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title: "List of political scientists"
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== F ==
C. Christine Fair – American political scientist who studies counter-terrorism and South Asian topics
James D. Fearon – American political scientist focusing on theory of civil wars, international bargaining, war's inefficiency puzzle and audience costs
Peter D. Feaver – international security expert
Dafydd Fell – British political scientist
David Fellman – Constitutional scholar
Richard Fenno – Congress scholar, author of Home Style: House Members in their Districts
Thomas Ferguson – politics and economics
Joel S. Fetzer – comparative politics specialist; distinguished professor at Pepperdine University
Samuel Finer – academic and author on political science and history of government
Norman Finkelstein – author on political science, notable for The Holocaust Industry
Martha Finnemore – international relations and international organizations scholar
Morris P. Fiorina – American politics; proposed retrospective vote theory
Peter Fishburn – operations analysis and probability theory expert
Keith Fitzgerald – immigration politics expert
Naika Foroutan – German political scientist studying immigration and integration
James H. Fowler – expert on political participation, the evolution of cooperation, and social network theory (UCSD)
Annette Baker Fox – international relations scholar
William T. R. Fox – international relations theorist, coiner of the term "superpower"
Ernst Fraenkel – German political scientist and one of the founding fathers of German political science after World War II
Daniel P. Franklin – American politics; politics of the presidency and Politics and Film
Doris Fuchs – German political scientist and professor of International Relations and Sustainable Development at the University of Münster
Francis Fukuyama – international political theory and biopolitics
Archon Fung

== G ==
Michael Gallagher
Lisa García Bedolla – UC Berkeley professor, vice provost for Graduate Studies, and dean of the Graduate Division
Krenar Gashi – Ghent University political scientist and former Financial Times reporter
Scott Gates – specialist in international relations
Barbara Geddes – scholar of authoritarianism and authoritarian regimes
Anthony Giddens – political sociologist originator of the Third Way
Elisabeth Gidengil – Hiram Mills Professor of political science at McGill University studying political engagement and Canadian politics
Robert Gilpin – international political economy specialist
Benjamin Ginsberg – professor at Johns Hopkins University focusing on American politics
Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson – professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland focusing on political theory
Marianne Githens – political scientist, feminist, author, professor, and co-founder of the Women's Study Program at Goucher College
Betty Glad – American researcher of the American presidency and American foreign policy
Siri Gloppen – Norwegian political scientist
Sheldon Goldman – expert on American federal courts; professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Grigorii Golosov – expert on political institutions and electoral systems, professor at European University at Saint Petersburg
David F. Gordon – political risk specialist, former US director of Policy Planning
Harold Foote Gosnell – research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties in political science
Marie Gottschalk – American political scientist known for her work on mass incarceration in the United States
Heather Grabbe – political scientist, activist, and director of the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels, Belgium
Doris Graber – American pioneer in the field of political communication
Colin Gray – international security
Donald Green – professor of Political Science at Columbia University focusing on field experiments in American politics
Jane Green – professor of political science at the University of Manchester; co-director of the British Election Study; specialised in public opinion and electoral behaviour
Liah Greenfeld – Israeli, American, and Russian social scientist
Anna Grzymala – American political scientist, currently at Stanford University; previously Ronald Eileen Weiser Professor at University of Michigan
Rhiana Gunn-Wright – American policy director
Yaprak Gürsoy – Turkish political scientist and associate professor in the Department of International Relations at the Istanbul Bilgi University
Ted Robert Gurr – specialist on conflict and violence
Amy Gutmann – political theory expert; president of the University of Pennsylvania (2004–present)