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title: "List of political scientists"
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== H ==
Michael Haas – emeritus professor of Political Science, University of Hawai'i
Jacob Hacker – professor of Political Science at Yale University
Henrike Hahn – German political scientist and politician; member of the European Parliament
Paul Y. Hammond – American foreign policy and national security specialist at University of Pittsburgh and elsewhere
Roger D. Hansen – American political scientist and professor
Harry Harding – China specialist
Thomas Hare – devised single transferable vote (also known as Hare's method)
Jeremy Harris – American politics specialist
Michael Hart – British twentieth-century politics specialist
Louis Hartz – American author of The Liberal Tradition in America
Mary Hawkesworth – American political scientist and Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University
Colin Hay – influential British political scientist
Katharine Hayhoe – atmospheric scientist and professor of political science at Texas Tech University and director of the Climate Science Center
Clarissa Rile Hayward – professor at Washington University in St. Louis studying the theory of political power and political identities
Susan Hekman – professor of political science and director of the graduate humanities program at the University of Texas at Arlington
Marc Hetherington – author of Why Trust Matters; offered a new participation paradigm
Christopher J. Hill – international relations scholar, professor and director of the Cambridge Centre of International Studies
Roger Hilsman – aide to John F. Kennedy, Columbia University professor, and prolific author
Nancy Hirschmann – professor of Politics at the University of Pennsylvania working in the intersection of political theory and public policy
Sara Hobolt – Danish political scientist who specialises in European politics and electoral behaviour
Thomas Holbrook – public opinion and elections research, author Do Campaigns Matter?
Christopher Hood – author of The Art of the State and A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?
Donald L. Horowitz – pioneered political science models for assessing ethnic conflict
Mala Htun – studied women's rights and the politics of race and ethnicity in a comparative context
Evelyne Huber – studies democracy and redistribution with a focus on Latin America
Mark Huddleston – former president of Ohio Wesleyan University and president of the University of New Hampshire
Samuel P. Huntington – author of Clash of Civilizations and The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century; comparativist

== I ==
Kancha Ilaiah – Dalit scholar and social scientist
Ronald Inglehart – professor at the University of Michigan; founder of the World Values Survey
Shanto Iyengar – American political scientist

== J ==
Lawrence R. Jacobs – American political scientist; founder and director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota
Gary Jacobson – constitutional law expert
Ashley E. Jardina – American political scientist and assistant professor of political science at Duke University
Attahiru Jega – Nigerian political scientist specialising in political development; former INEC chairman; former vice chancellor of Bayero University
Robert Jervis – international security specialist
Chalmers Johnson – comparative theorist
Jason A. Johnson – campaign management
Loch K. Johnson – United States intelligence expert
Timothy R. Johnson – political science and law; noted for his work covering the Supreme Court of the United States
Charles O. Jones – specialist in American politics
Bertrand de Jouvenel – French political scientist; co-founder of Mont Pelerin Society

== K ==
Kelly Kadera – professor at University of Iowa studying international relations, democratic backsliding, and gender in politics using dynamic models
Alice Kang – professor at University of Nebraska at Lincoln, expert in African politics and gender research
Nazokat Kasimova – Uzbekistani political scientist, also noted for her work within the field of higher education reform
Nina Kasniunas – author and the Arsht Professor in Ethics and Leadership at Goucher College
Nancy Kassop – professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz
Peter Katzenstein – professor at Cornell, former president of the American Political Science Association
Ira Katznelson – specialist in American and comparative politics
Dennis Kavanagh
Michael Keating – specialist in nationalism, European integration and regionalism
Margaret Keck – developed the study of international activist movements and networked advocacy
Edmond Keller – specialist in African politics
Willmoore Kendall – political theorist; teacher of William F. Buckley, Jr.
Robert O. Keohane – interdependence theory author
Ben Kerkvliet – specialist in comparative politics
Cornelius Kerwin – former president of American University
V.O. Key, Jr. – elections, parties and public opinion scholar
Laleh Khalili – Iranian American and professor in Middle Eastern politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies
Ilona Kickbusch – German political scientist best known for her contribution to health promotion and global health
Gary King – professor at Harvard, political methodologist
John W. Kingdon – specialist in American politics
Grayson L. Kirk – specialist in international relations and president of Columbia University
Henry Kissinger – former secretary of state and National Security advisor to President Richard M. Nixon
Herbert Kitschelt – author on new radical right parties
Samara Klar – professor and founder of Women Also Know Stuff
Stephen D. Krasner – international regimes author, director of Policy Planning under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and professor at Stanford University
Michael Krassa – elections, social context, architecture and society; lobbyist, consultant, political sociologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Oskar Krejčí – theory of international relations, elections and political psychology, former advisor to two Czechoslovak premieres
Sarah Kreps – foreign and defense policy, nuclear proliferation, and government transparency
James Kurth
Will Kymlicka – originated the theoretical foundations of multiculturalism