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title: "List of political scientists"
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== N ==
Brigitte L. Nacos – professor in political science at Columbia University
Arthur Naftalin – specialist in American politics and former mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Amrita Narlikar – president of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies and former director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Rising Powers
Antonio Negri
Franz Leopold Neumann – known for analysis of National Socialism
Kalypso Nicolaïdis – professor of International Relations and director of the Center for International Studies at Oxford University
David Nolan – founder of the United States Libertarian Party
Farish A. Noor – Malaysian historian and political scientist
Pippa Norris – Harvard comparative political scientist
Douglass North – Nobel laureate
Philip Norton – British politics expert
Julie Novkov – American political scientist at SUNY Albany studying the history of American law, American political development, and subordinated identities
Joseph Nye – "soft power" international security specialist; Kennedy School dean

== O ==
Karen O'Conner – political science professor at American University in Washington, D.C.; founder and director emerita of the Women & Politics Institute
Guillermo O'Donnell – democracy specialist
Aloysius-Michaels Nnabugwu Okolie – professor at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Brendan O'Leary – ethnic conflict specialist
Cornelius O'Leary – Irish historian and political scientist
Bertell Ollman – political theorist
Mancur Olson – international political economy specialist; expert on collective action problems; taught at the University of Maryland, College Park
A.F.K. Organski – developed power transition theory in his 1958 book World Politics
Norman Ornstein – American political theorist; American Enterprise Institute (AEI) resident scholar
Elinor Ostrom – specialist on common pool resources; winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics
Isaac Owusu-Mensah – Ghanaian political scientist

== P ==
Thomas Pangle – political theorist at University of Texas at Austin
Michael Parenti – political scientist and author
Vilfredo Pareto
W. Robert Parks – former president of Iowa State University
Gianfranco Pasquino – Italian political scientist; electoral systems, comparative politics
Tiago C. Peixoto – Brazilian political scientist in e-democracy and participatory democracy
Armand Peschard-Sverdrup – U.S.-Mexico binational relations expert
Dianne Pinderhughes – scholar of race and gender inequality & public policy, former American Political Science Association president
Sergei M. Plekhanov – Russia relations expert
Nelson W. Polsby – American politics scholar
Samuel L. Popkin – early expert on rational choice theory
Karl Popper – theorist, originated the open society theory
Emilia Justyna Powell – Polish-American political scientist known for her expertise on international dispute resolution, the Islamic legal tradition, Islamic international law, and Islamic constitutionalism
Jewel Prestage – first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in political science, former dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Southern University
Adam Przeworski – Democratic transitions theorist, author of Democracy and Development; member of the September Group
Robert D. Putnam – social capital theorist, author of Bowling Alone

== R ==
Douglas W. Rae – equality theorist
Vicky Randall – scholar of political science and gender
Mahesh Rangarajan – Indian political analyst and researcher with a focus on contemporary Indian politics and the politics of wildlife conservation in India
John Rawls – political philosopher
Gary D. Rawnsley FRSA – British political scientist whose research is located at the intersection of international relations and international communication.
Dan Reiter – political scientist, specialized on military conflicts and war; professor at Emory University; author of How Wars End
R. A. W. Rhodes – public administration scholar, pioneer of the study of policy networks in British government
Condoleezza Rice – former National Security advisor; former secretary of state; professor at Stanford University
Floyd M. Riddick – Parliamentarian of the United States Senate 1964–1974, and developer of Riddick's Senate procedure
William H. Riker – 20th-century political scientist who applied game theory to political science
Patrick T. Riley – political theorist and Kant scholar
Pearl T. Robinson – American professor of political science at Tufts University
David W. Rohde – Congress scholar
Stein Rokkan – expert on political parties and movements, founder of the Institute for Comparative Politics
Richard Rose – American political scientist, professor of Politics at the University of Aberdeen
Richard Rosecrance – international relations and political economy expert
Clinton Rossiter – American government and constitutional history theorist
Irene S. Rubin – emerita at Northern Illinois University focusing on interview methodology and public budgeting in American government
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph – scholar of political economy and political economy, former American Political Science Association president
John Ruggie – international relations theorist, social constructivist