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title: "List of political scientists"
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category: "reference"
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== C ==
William A. Callahan
Melani Cammett – Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Linda Cardinal – University Professor, Canada Research Chair in Canadian Francophonie and Public Policies at the University of Ottawa
Ira Carmen – co-founder of the social science subdiscipline of genetics and politics
Edward Hallett Carr – international relations theorist
Niambi Carter – political scientist and author
Alfredo Castillero Hoyos – democracy and human rights; former member of the United Nations's Human Rights Committee
George Catlin (1896–1979) – English political scientist and philosopher; strong proponent of Anglo-America cooperation; worked for many years as a professor at Cornell University
Jocelyne Cesari – French political scientist
Pamela Chasek – international environmental policy expert
Partha Chatterjee – Indian postcolonial critic, political and social scientist
Rumman Chowdhury – Bengali-American political scientist and data scientist at Accenture
Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri – international relations, Indology at Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Walter C. Clemens – associate at Harvard Davis Center for Russian and European Studies and professor emeritus of Political Science, Boston University, author of books on US relations with Russia, China and North Korea, and science and world affairs
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook – director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations; co-founder and executive director of the Future of Diplomacy project, at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
John Coakley – specialist in ethnic conflict and Irish politics
Benjamin Cohen – leader in the field of international political economy
Elizabeth F. Cohen – American expert on citizenship and immigration
Stephen P. Cohen – Middle East specialist
James Smoot Coleman – early Africanist, founded the UCLA African Studies Center
Ralph W. Conant – author of The Prospects for Revolution and Toward a More Perfect Union: The Governance of Metropolitan America
Marquis de Condorcet – 18th-century mathematician and philosopher who contributed the often used "Condorcet criterion" and devised the concept of a Condorcet method
Philip Converse – public opinion scholar, author of The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics
Timothy E. Cook – politics and media
Clyde Coombs – voting systems expert, designed "Coombs' method"
Morgan Lyon Cotti – professor, associate director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics
Philip Cowley – author of Revolts and Rebellions
Edvin Kanka Ćudić – Bosnian political scientist and human rights activist, founder and coordinator of UDIK in Bosnia and Herzegovina

== D ==
Alison Dagnes – American specialist in politics and the media, politics and humor, and political scandal
Robert A. Dahl – American politics specialist, author of On Democracy
Rafaela Dancygier – expert in comparative politics, especially the implications of ethnic diversity in democracies; IBM Chair of International Studies at Princeton University
Jouke de Vries – Frisian politician and professor at the university of Leiden
Vera Micheles Dean – Russian American political scientist, former head of research for the Foreign Policy Association, and leading international affairs authority in the 1940s and 1950s
Ronald Deibert – Canadian political scientist and founder and director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto
Fatima Denton – Ethiopian political scientist, officer-in-charge of the Special Initiatives Division and co-ordinator for the African Climate Policy Centre of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Daniel Deudney – writer and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University; author of Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village
Karl Deutsch – political scientist, focused on political communication
Larry Diamond – comparative democratization specialist; professor at Stanford University
Thomas Diez – chair of International Relations at the University of Birmingham
Michelle Dion – professor in the department of political science and the Senator William McMaster Chair of Gender and Methodology at McMaster University
John DiIulio – American politics expert at the University of Pennsylvania
Ruth Dixon – winner of the Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration and the W. J. M. Mackenzie award of the Political Studies Association
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (also known as Lewis Carroll) – author of Alice in Wonderland and professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford; devised Dodgson's method of voting
Robert Donaldson – professor at University of Tulsa and specialist in US/Russian foreign policy
Anthony Downs – contributed to democratic theory, elections studies
Donald Downs – professor at University of Wisconsin; researcher for Independent Institute
Michael W. Doyle – international relations theorist, author of Empires
Daniel Drezner – professor at Tufts University, specializing in international politics
Murray Dry – professor at Middlebury College, specializing in constitutional law
John Dryzek – professor at the Australian National University, specializing in deliberative democracy and environmental politics
John Dunn – political theorist at the University of Cambridge
Maurice Duverger – French lawyer and sociologist responsible for Duverger's law
Rand Dyck – Canadian politics expert and professor at Carleton University
Thomas R. Dye – elite theory vs. pluralism; author of The Irony of Democracy and Who's Running America?

== E ==
David Easton – originator of systemic theory
Susan Eaton – American political scientist and workers' rights activist
Daniel J. Elazar – American federalism and political culture scholar, founder of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, political science professor at Bar Ilan (Israel) and Temple University
Keisha Lynne Ellis – Bahamian political scientist
Jean Bethke Elshtain – American political philosopher focusing on gender, ethics, American democracy, and international relations
Jon Elster – Norwegian social and political theorist; authored works in the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory; notable proponent of Analytical Marxism
Jadwiga Emilewicz – Polish politician, political scientist, and government minister
Cynthia Enloe – international relations scholar focusing on feminism in international relations, editor for such scholarly journals as Signs and the International Feminist Journal of Politics
Kate Ervine – Canadian political science professor