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title: "List of political scientists"
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== V ==
Stephen Van Evera – MIT international relations expert, known for proposing the offense-defense theory
Tatu Vanhanen – democratization and ethnic nepotism
Sarojini Varadappan – Indian social worker who earned her PhD at the age of 80
Sidney Verba – American political scientist, librarian and library administrator
Mieke Verloo – professor of comparative politics and inequality issues at Radboud University
Eric Voegelin – in his major work, Order and History in five volumes, he rejected the notion that political science should become a positivistic social science
Margaret Vogt – Nigerian diplomat and political scientist who served as special representative and head of the United Nations Integrated Peace-building Office in the Central African Republic
Leah Vosko – professor at York University

== W ==
Helen Wallace – international relations specialist
Denise Walsh – studies the relationship between women's rights and political inclusion and level of democracy
Stephen Walt – international relations specialist
Kenneth N. Waltz – founder of the neorealist international relations school
Michael Walzer – international relations, just war theory
John Wanna – Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government
Georgina Waylen – comparative politics, political economy, and gender
Linda Weiss – professor of political science at the University of Sydney
Patricia A. Weitsman – international relations scholar, alliance theory
S. Laurel Weldon – Canadian and American political scientist and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University
Alexander Wendt – social constructivism proponent
Martin Westlake – specialist in European Union politics
John Henry Whyte – specialist in Northern Irish politics
Aaron Wildavsky – author of Risk and Culture
Bruce A. Williams – specialist in American politics
Danny Williams – premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
James Q. Wilson – former president of the American Political Science Association
Woodrow Wilson – former professor of Politics at Princeton University and former US president
William Wohlforth – international relations scholar
Arnold Wolfers – international relations scholar, classical realism
Elisabeth Jean Wood – studies sexual violence during war, the emergence of political insurgencies and individuals' participation in them, and democratization
Ngaire Woods – founding dean of the Blavatnik School of Government
Susan L. Woodward – professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

== Y ==
Atilla Yayla – professor of Politics, Political Economy and Political Philosophy at Gazi University in Turkey; president of the Association for Liberal Thinking
Yelyzaveta Yasko – Ukrainian political scientist and politician; member of the Ukrainian Parliament
M. Crawford Young – comparativist, Africa scholar

== Z ==
Fareed Zakaria – international relations expert
John Zaller – author of The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion; at UCLA
Elizabeth Zechmeister – comparativist at Vanderbilt University, Latin American politics and public opinion expert, director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project
Zhang Weiwei – Chinese political scientist
Ina Zhupa – Albanian political scientist who studies democratization and values of Albanian society

== See also ==
Oxford Handbooks of Political Science
Political science
Political theorist

== References ==