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title: "List of political scientists"
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== L ==
Guy Laforest – liberalism (John Locke) scholar; Quebec and Canadian politics specialist
Celinda Lake – American survey methodologist, pollster, and political strategist
Enid Lakeman – British political reformer, writer and politician, noted for her long-standing championship of the single transferable vote system of elections
Laura Langbein – American quantitative methodologist and professor of public administration and policy at American University
Harold Lasswell – political communications, pioneered early efforts to establish the policy sciences and influential contributor to the stages heuristic
Adria Lawrence – American political scientist and the Aronson Associate Professor of International Studies and Political Science at Johns Hopkins University
Jack Layton – former leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, Ph.D. in Political Science
Richard Ned Lebow – constructivist, Cold War expert, author of Tragic Vision of Politics
Noémi Lefebvre – French political scientist at the Instituts d'études politiques of Grenoble II
Michael Leifer – international relations, South Asian Studies, London School of Economics
Amy E. Lerman – scholar of public opinion, race, and political behaviour; Michelle Schwartz Professor of Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley
Margaret Levi – scholar of comparative political economy, labor politics, democratic theory, former American Political Science Association president
Carl Levy – Goldsmiths College, University of London
Michael Lewis-Beck – American political scientist, scholar of comparative politics, political forecasting, and political methodology, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa
Robert C. Lieberman – scholar of American politics and former provost of Johns Hopkins University
Arend Lijphart – originator of consociationalism
Fernando Limongi – professor in the São Paulo School of Economics at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Juan Linz – democracy specialist
Dan Lipinski – U.S. House of Representatives (IL-D, 3rd)
Seymour Martin Lipset – political theorist on democracy and development and parties; taught at Stanford University
Leslie Lipson – scholar of comparative politics and democracy at UC Berkeley
Ramon Llull – discoverer of Condorcet Criterion and Borda Count
Claudia López Hernández – Colombian political scientist and politician; senator of the Republic of Colombia
Theodore Lowi – major scholar of American politics at Cornell University
Ian Lustick – state territoriality ethnic conflict and computer modelling in political science; University of Pennsylvania

== M ==
Niccolò Machiavelli – considered the originator of historically based political science; author of The Prince
Beatriz Magaloni – political scientist at Stanford University
Pia Mancini – political scientist, activist and technical project leader from Argentina
Jane Mansbridge – scholar of social movements, gender, and democratic engagement (Harvard University), former American Political Science Association president
Harvey C. Mansfield – political philosophy (Harvard University)
Zeev Maoz – Arab-Israeli conflict and international relations expert
Jose M. Maravall – political economist
Helen Margetts – former director of the Oxford Internet Institute; current director of the Public Policy Programme at the Alan Turing Institute
David Marsh – influential British political scientist
Joanna Marszałek-Kawa – Polish lawyer, political scientist, professor and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Juraj Marusiak – Slovak expert for Central and Eastern Europe
David R. Mayhew – U.S. legislative behavior and political parties expert
Amy Mazur – American political scientist and professor at Washington State University
Tara McCormack – lecturer in international relations at the University of Leicester
John McCormick – specialist in European Union politics
John McCormick – American political scientist and Karl J. Weintraub Professor at the University of Chicago
Rose McDermott – professor of International Relations at Brown University
Michael McFaul – Russia specialist, professor and director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University
John McGarry – ethnic conflict specialist
J. Patrice McSherry – professor of political science at Long Island University
John Mearsheimer – international relations theorist and national security expert
Samuel Merrill III – voting behavior and party competition
George Michael – specialist in right-wing extremism
David Miller – political philosopher, specialized in theories of social justice
Charles Mills – political philosopher specialising in race relations; author of The Racial Contract
Sara McLaughlin Mitchell – American political scientist and the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Political Science at University of Iowa
Terry M. Moe – specialist in American politics
Marzuki Mohamad – former chief of staff to the prime minister of Malaysia, associate professor at the International Islamic University of Malaysia, specialist in ethnic politics
Malcolm Moos – former president of the University of Minnesota
Andrew Moravcsik – professor at Princeton University, liberal IR theorist, specialist on European Union politics
Hans Morgenthau – realist, international relations specialist
James D. Morrow – international relations expert and game theorist
Rebecca Morton – expert in American politics, political economy, and experimental methods; professor at New York University
Gerardo L. Munck – comparative politics specialist, expert on democratization and Latin America
Michael Munger – trained as an economist, chair of political science at Duke University, running for governor of North Carolina as a Libertarian
Naomi Murakawa – American political scientist and associate professor of African-American studies at Princeton University
Amanda Murdie – Georgia Athletic Association Professor of International Affairs, University of Georgia; expert in the behavior of international nongovernmental organisations and their interactions with states, local populations, and intergovernmental organizations
Clark A. Murdock – senior adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Diana Mutz – Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania; director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics
Harris Mylonas – associate professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University; editor-in-chief of Nationalities Papers