List of political scientists

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This is a list of notable political scientists. See the list of political theorists for those who study politics without using the scientific method.

Notable political scientists

A

David Abernethy - Comparative Politics, Africa Specialist at Stanford University; author of "The Dynamics of Global Dominance".
Alan I. Abramowitz - American politics and election forecasting at Emory University; co-author of Senate Elections.
Christopher H. Achen - Political methodologist at Princeton University, first president of the Society for Political Methodology.
Prajesh Adhikari - Comparative politics; Eastern Europe specialist at Arizona State University; author of "The Hope Gene".
John Aldrich - Political parties expert at Duke University, author of Why Parties?
Graham Allison - Early proponent of the bureaucratic politics model, author of Essence of Decision, national security specialist, former Dean of Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Gabriel A. Almond - Originator of the culturist movement in Comparative Politics.
R. Douglas Arnold - Congress scholar, author of The Logic of Congressional Action.
Robert Axelrod - Expert on game theory and complexity theory, wrote extensively on the Prisoner's Dilemma, former president of American Political Science Association.

B

Stephen Barber - Noted for his work on political strategy and political economy, author of Political Strategy, member of G3 (tour).
Benjamin Barber - proponent of participatory democracy and local governance teaching at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland College Park.
Larry Bartels - Democracy and voting expert at Princeton University.
Barzilai Gad - Law and Politics, Human Rights and Politics, Communities and Law at University of Washington .
Nathaniel Beck - Political methodologist, international relations scholar.
Jeffrey Berry - American Politics & Political Behavior expert, Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.
Duncan Black - Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson.
Hans T. Blokland - Author of Freedom and Culture in Western Society and Modernization and its political consequences.
Jean Blondel - Comparative politics at University of Siena, emeritus at European University Institute.
Catherine Boone - Comparative politics, Africa (University of Texas at Austin).
Jean-Charles de Borda - 18th century mathematician who devised the Borda count.
Steven Brams - Expert on voting systems.
Ahron Bregman - Expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
John Brehm - Public opinion and political psychology expert.
Ian Bremmer - Political risk specialist.
Benichou Rachid - Political philosopher, he was number one of world 1969 to date.
Stephen Brooks - International relations scholar.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - Pioneering game theorist with applications to international relations, author of selectorate theory, seminal book "The War Trap".
Walter Dean Burnham - Expert in the field of realigning elections, emeritus at University of Texas at Austin.

C

James E. Campbell - American politics, election forecasting, theory of "surge and decline," SUNY-Buffalo, Author of "The American Campaign"
Edward Hallett Carr - Noted international relations theorist.
Alfredo Castillero Hoyos - Democracy and Human Rights. Former member of the United Nations's Human Rights Committee.
James Ceaser - Major scholar of American politics (University of Virginia)
Partha Chatterjee, Indian postcolonial critic, political and social scientist
John Coakley - specialist in ethnic conflict and Irish politics
Benjamin Cohen - leader in the field of International Political Economy
David Collier (political scientist), - comparativist, Latin Americanist, Methodologist
Ruth Berins Collier, - comparativist, Latin Americanist, specialist on labor politics and democratization
Josep M. Colomer - Institutionalist, comparativist, and game theorist scholar.
Marquis de Condorcet - 18th century mathematician and philosopher who contributed the often used Condorcet criterion and devised the concept of a Condorcet method.
John Coneybeare - International organizations theorist.
Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri - International Relations, Indology at Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Philip Converse - Public opinion scholar, author of "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics."
Clyde Coombs - Voting systems expert, designed "Coombs' method"
Colm Costigan - Renowned Irish Politician of the 1970s, professor at University of Dublin
Gary Cox - Noted scholar of comparative and American politics.
Philip Cowley - Author of "Revolts and Rebellions".

D

Robert A. Dahl - American politics specialist, author of On Democracy (Yale University Press)
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.
Robert Devigne - Political Theory Expert, professor at Tufts University.
Larry Diamond - Comparative democratization specialist. Professor at Stanford University.
John DiIulio - American politics expert at the University of Pennsylvania; first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Groups
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.
Michael Scott Doran - Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Anthony Downs - has contributed to democratic theory, elections studies.
Donald Downs - Professor at University of Wisconsin; researcher for Independent Institute
Maurice Duverger - French lawyer and sociologist responsible for Duverger's law.
Michael Doyle - International Relations theorist, author of "Empires".
John Dunn - Political theorist at the University of Cambridge.
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
Harry Eckstein - Noted comparative politics expert in culture and democracy.
Jon Elster - Norwegian social and political theorist authored works in the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory and a notable proponent of Analytical Marxism.
Robert S. Erikson - noted for work on the link between public opinion and public policy.

F

Peter D. Feaver - International security expert.
David Fellman - Constitutional scholar
Richard Fenno - Congress scholar, author of Home Style: House Members in their Districts
Samuel Finer - Academic and author on political science and history of government.
Martha Finnemore - International organizations and ethics scholar.
Peter Fishburn - Operations analysis and probability theory expert.
Keith Fitzgerald - Immigration politics expert.
James H. Fowler - Expert on political participation, the evolution of cooperation, and social network theory (UCSD)
Ernst Fraenkel
Francis Fukuyama - International political theory and biopolitics.

G

Gerald Gamm - Political Science Department Chair at the University of Rochester.
Anthony Giddens - Noted political sociologist originator of the Third Way.
Anthony Gill - Comparativist, religion and politics specialist. Author of Rendering Unto Caesar (University of Chicago Press)
Robert Gilpin - International political economics specialist.
James Glaser - American Politics & Political Behavior Expert. Professor and Dean of Undergraduate Education at Tufts University. Author of The Hand of the Past in Contemporary Southern Politics & Race, Campaign Politics, and the Realignment in the South.
Joanne Gowa - International political economy expert (democratic peace theory).
Joseph Grieco - International relations theorist; Duke University professor.
Amy Gutmann - political theory expert; (2004-present) President of the University of Pennsylvania

H

Harry Harding - China specialist.
Thomas Hare - Devised Single Transferable Vote (also known as Hare's method).
Michael Hart - British twentieth century politics specialist.
Louis Hartz - American author of The Liberal Tradition in America (1955).
Marc Hetherington - Author of "Why Trust Matters" and offered new participation paradigm.
Christopher J. Hill - International Relations scholar, Professor and Director of the Cambridge Centre of International Studies.
Roger Hilsman - JFK Aid, Columbia University Professor, and prolific author.
Thomas Holbrook - Public Opinion and Elections Research, author Do Campaigns Matter?
Donald Horowitz - Pioneered political science models for assessing ethnic conflict.
Michael P. Howlett - Canadian political economy.
Patrick Hunout - International Political Theory
Samuel P. Huntington - Author of "Clash of Civilizations" and a noted comparativist.

I

Kancha Ilaiah - Dalit scholar and social scientist

J

Larry Jacobs - Presidential and legislative politics
Gary Jacobsohn - Comparative constitutional theory
Gary C. Jacobson - Congressional politics expert
M. Kent Jennings - Grandfather of political socialization.
Robert Jervis - International security specialist.
Chalmers Johnson - Comparative theorist.
Loch K. Johnson - United States intelligence expert.
Bertrand de Jouvenel - French political scientist. Co-founder of Mont Pelerin Society
Jalil A khan-political theorist on terrorism and independence.

K

KEDDAM NASSIM - he works in Djezzy fi Dely Brahim city
Peter Katzenstein
Dennis Kavanagh
Michael Keating - Specialist in nationalism, European integration and regionalism
Robert O. Keohane - Interdependence theory author.
V.O. Key, Jr. - Elections, parties and public opinion scholar.
Kan Kimura - Professor at Kobe University, Specialist in nationalism, East Asian Politics.
Gary King - Professor at Harvard, political methodologist.
Henry Kissinger - Former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President Richard M. Nixon.
Herbert Kitschelt - author on new radical right parties
Ruud Koole - Professor at Leiden University, Netherlands and former labour party president.
Stephen D. Krasner - International regimes author, Director of Policy Planning under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and professor at Stanford University.
Keith Krehbiel - Congress scholar and formal theorist.
Oskar Krejčí - Theory of international relations, elections and political psychology, former advisor to two Czechoslovak premieres
James Kurth
Will Kymlicka - Originated the theoretical foundations of multiculturalism.

L

Guy Laforest -Liberalism (John Locke) scholar and Quebec and Canadian politics specialist
David A. Lake - International Relations Theorist
Richard Ned Lebow - Noted constructivist, Cold War expert, author of "Tragic Vision of Politics".
Michael Leifer - International Relations, South Asian Studies, London School of Economics
Michael S. Lewis-Beck - Comparative and American political behavior and election forecasting, University of Iowa, author of Economics and Elections.
Arend Lijphart - Originator of consociationalism.
Dan Lipinski - US House of Representatives (IL-D, 3rd)
Juan Linz - Democracy specialist
Seymour Martin Lipset - Renowned political theorist on democracy and development and parties. Taught at Stanford University.
Ramon Llull - Discoverer of Condorcet Criterion and Borda Count
Theodore Lowi - Major scholar of American politics at Cornell
Ian Lustick - State territioriality ethnic conflict and computer modelling in political science; University of Pennsylvania
Rodrigo Losada Lora - political behavior from a sociopsychological framework. Works on Colombia's political participation. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana,Bogotá, Colombia

M

Niccolò Machiavelli - considered to be the originator of historically based political science. Author of The Prince
Harvey C. Mansfield - Political philosophy (Harvard University)
Donald Manzullo - Congressional Representative of Illinois' 16th District.
Zeev Maoz - Arab-Israeli Conflict and international relations expert
Jose M. Maravall - Political economist.
Pierre Martin - French parties and elections scholar.
David R. Mayhew - US legislative behavior and political parties expert.
Mathew McCubbins - Formal theorist. U.S. Congress and bureaucracy specialist.
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
John Mearsheimer - Noted international relations theorist and national security expert.
Uday Mehta - Political theorist and author of Liberalism and Empire
Thierry Meyssan - Political theorist of anti-imperialism
Samuel Merrill III - Voting behavior and party competition.
George Michael - specialist in right-wing extremism.
Peter Middlebrook - political economist specialising in transition economies.
Terry Moe - American politics specialist and game theorist, teaches at Stanford University.
Hans Morgenthau - Noted realist, international relations specialist.
James Morrow - International relations expert and game theorist.
David Miller - Political Philosopher specialized in theories of social justice

N

Douglass North - Nobel laureate
Philip Norton - British politics expert
Pippa Norris - Harvard comparative political scientist
Joseph Nye - "Soft power" international security specialist; Kennedy School Dean.

O

Brendan O'Leary - Ethnic conflict specialist
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".

P

Thomas Pangle - Political theorist at University of Texas at Austin
Gianfranco Pasquino Italian political scientist. Electoral systems, comparative politics.
Nelson W. Polsby - American politics scholar.
Karl Popper - Theorist who invented the Open Society
Samuel L. Popkin - Early expert on rational choice theory.
G. Bingham Powell - Leader in the field of comparative politics, professor at the University of Rochester.
Sergei M. Plekhanov - Russia relations expert
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

Condoleezza Rice - Former National Security Adviser now Secretary of State. Professor at Stanford University.
Floyd M. Riddick - Parliamentarian of the United States Senate from 1964 to 1974, and developer of Riddick's Senate procedure.
William H. Riker - 20th century political scientist who applied game theory to political science.
Douglas Rivers - Political econometrician, quantitative methods expert at Stanford University.
David Rohde - Congress scholar
Stein Rokkan - Expert on political parties and movements, founder of the Institute for Comparative Politics.
Richard Rosecrance - International relations and political economy expert.
Clinton Rossiter - American government and constitutional history theorist.
John Ruggie - International relations theorist, social constructivist.
John Rawls - Political philosopher.
William D. Richardson - Political philosopher.
Malaya C. Ronas - Filipino political scientist, professor at the University of the Philippines, Diliman.
Jordan Renaud - Canadian Political Scientist, writer and Socialist.

S

Scott Sagan - Stanford professor and notable critic of deterrence theory.
David Samuels - Comparativist scholar of Brazilian politics and political institutions.
Giovanni Sartori - Comparativist, expert on constitutional theory and party systems; author of Parties and Party Systems.
E.E. Schattschneider - Early political parties expert, author of Party Government and The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America
Sanford Schram - Research includes welfare reform, race, poverty, and research methodology.
Hossein Seifzadeh - Iranian Professor of Political Scince at University of Tehran and expert on strategic and security issues in the Middle East
Mitchell A. Seligson - Centennial Professor of Political Science Vanderbilt University and founder of Latin American Public Opinion Project and AmericasBarometer
Randolph M. Siverson - Research includes studies of international conflict, comparative political leadership, and foreign policy decision-making. See: selectorate theory.
Theda Skocpol - Comparative sociologist, former president of American Political Science Association, (Harvard University)
Stephen Skowronek - Presidency and American political development scholar (Yale University)
Matthew Soberg Shugart - Scholar of constitutional design and electoral systems.
Jean Edward Smith - political economist, biographer, international relations, constitutional law.
Rogers Smith - Pulitzer Prize finalist, American politics expert at the University of Pennsylvania
Herbert Simon - Nobel Prize winning professor at Carnegie Mellon. A founder of artificial intelligence research, he received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago
Zeev Sternhell - Theorist, political historian of political ideology.
James A. Stimson - Americanist, former editor of Political Analysis.
John G. Stoessinger - International relations theorist, author of "The Might of Nations: World Politics in our Time".
Herbert Storing - American politics expert.
Leo Strauss - History of political philosophy scholar.
Surain Subramaniam - professor and prolific author, realist school of international relations
Prithi Pal Singh Sohi - Professor and Ph.d on International Politics, Political Analyst and Free lance writer on National and International issues. Book: Foreign Policy of Communists. Hosting political shows and debates on Indian Television.

T

Rein Taagepera - Comparativist, expert on electoral systems and history of government.
Dennis Thompson - Political theorist at Harvard University
Charles Tilly - Professor at Columbia University, his work includes contentious politics and evolution of modern states
Herbert Tingsten - Professor of political science at Stockholm University
James Tong - Comparativist, with interests in Chinese Politics and political violence.
David B. Truman
Jeffrey K. Tulis - Author of The Rhetorical Presidency
J. Ann Tickner - Feminist international relations theorist and current president of the International Studies Association(ISA).
George Tsebelis - Game theorist notable for his general theory of Veto players and for describing the Robinson Crusoe fallacy.

U

V

Stephen Van Evera - MIT international relations expert, known for proposing Offense-Defense theory
Sidney Verba
Eric Voegelin - Major work, "Order and History" in five volumes, he rejected the notion that political science should become a positivistic social science.

W

Helen Wallace - International relations specialist.
Stephen Walt - International relations specialist.
Kenneth N. Waltz - Founder of the neorealist international relations school
Michael Walzer - International relations, just war theory
Alexander Wendt - Social constructivism proponent
Aaron Wildavsky - Author of "Risk and Culture"
James Q. Wilson - Former President of the American Political Science Association
Woodrow Wilson - Former Professor of Politics at Princeton University and former U.S. President
William Wohlforth - International relations scholar
Susan L. Woodward

Ken, Ward - Constitutional Law Texas State University

Y

Crawford Young - Noted comparativist, Africa scholar.

Z

Fareed Zakaria - International Relations Expert
John Zaller - Author of "The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion," at UCLA.

Presidents of the American Political Science Association

Frank J. Goodnow, 1904-1905
Albert Shaw, 1905-1906
Frederick N. Judson, 1906-1907
James Bryce, 1907-1908
A. Lawerence Lowell, 1908-1909
Woodrow Wilson, 1909-1910
Simeon E. Baldwin, 1910-1911
Albert Bushnell Hart, 1911-1912
W.W. Willoughby, 1912-1913
John Bassett Moore, 1913-1914
Ernst Freund, 1914-1915
Jesse Macy, 1915-1916
Munroe Smith, 1916-1917
Henry Jones Ford, 1917-1918
Paul S. Reinsch, 1918-1919
Leo S. Rowe, 1919-1920
William A. Dunning, 1920-1921
Harry A. Garfield, 1921-1922
James W. Garner, 1923-1924
Charles E. Merriam, 1924-1923
Charles A. Beard, 1925-1924
William Bennett Munro, 1926-1925
Jesse S. Reeves, 1927-1926
John A. Fairlie, 1928-1927
Benjamin F. Shambaugh, 1929-1928
Edward S. Corwin, 1930-1929
William F. Willoughby, 1931-1932
Isidor Loeb, 1932-1933
Walter J. Shepard, 1933-1934
Francis W. Coker, 1934-1935
Arthur N. Holcombe, 1935-1936
Thomas Reed Powell, 1936-1937
Clarence A. Dykstra, 1937-1938
Charles Grove Haines, 1938-1939
Robert C. Brooks, 1939-1940
Frederic A. Ogg, 1940-1941
William Anderson, 1941-1942
Robert E. Cushman, 1942-1943
Leonard D. White, 1943-1944
John Gaus, 1944-1945
Walter F. Dodd, 1945-1946
Arthur W. MacMahon, 1946-1947
Henry R. Spencer, 1947-1948
Quincy Wright, 1948-1949
James K. Pollock, 1949-1950
Peter H. Odegard, 1950-1951
Luther Gulick, 1951-1952
Pendleton Herring, 1952-1953
Ralph J. Bunche, 1953-1954
Charles McKinley, 1954-1955
Harold D. Lasswell, 1955-1956
E.E. Schattschneider, 1956-1957
V.O. Key, Jr., 1957-1958
R. Taylor Cole, 1958-1959
Carl B. Swisher, 1959-1960
Emmette S. Redford, 1960-1961
Charles S. Hyneman, 1961-1962
Carl J. Friedrich, 1962-1963
C. Herman Pritchett, 1963-1964
David B. Truman, 1964-1965
Gabriel A. Almond, 1965-1966
Robert A. Dahl, 1966-1967
Merle Fainsod, 1967-1968
David Easton, 1968-1969
Karl W. Deutsch, 1969-1970
Robert E. Lane, 1979-1971
Heinz Eulau, 1971-1972
Robert E. Ward, 1972-1973
Avery Leiserson, 1973-1974
Austin Ranney, 1974-1975
James MacGregor Burns, 1975-1976
Samuel H. Beer, 1976-1977
John C. Wahlke, 1977-1978
Leon D. Epstein, 1978-1979
Warren E. Miller, 1979-1980
Charles E. Lindblom, 1980-1981
Seymour Martin Lipset, 1981-1982
William H. Riker, 1982-1983
Philip E. Converse, 1983-1984
Richard F. Fenno, Jr., 1984-1985
Aaron B. Wildavsky, 1985-1986
Samuel P. Huntington, 1986-1987
Kenneth N. Waltz, 1987-1988
Lucian W. Pye, 1988-1989
Judith N. Shklar, 1989-1990
Theodore J. Lowi, 1990-1991
James Q. Wilson, 1991-1992
Lucius J. Barker, 1992-1993
Charles O. Jones, 1993-1994
Sidney Verba, 1994-1995
Arend Lijphart, 1995-1996
Elinor Ostrom, 1996-1997
M. Kent Jennings, 1997-1998
Matthew Holden Jr., 1998-1999
Robert O. Keohane, 1999-2000
Robert Jervis, 2000-2001
Robert Putnam, 2001-2002
Theda Skocpol, 2002-2003
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, 2003-2004
Margaret Levi, 2004-2005
Ira Katznelson, 2005-2006
Robert Axelrod, 2006-2007

Presidents of the Midwest Political Science Association

James K. Pollock, University of Michigan, 1939
W.H.C. Laves, University of Chicago, 1940
Francis G. Wilson, University of Illinois, 1941
John E. Briggs, State U. of Iowa, 1942
Howard White, Miami University, 1943-47
Harold Zink, DePauw University, 1948
Llewellyn Pfankuchen, University of Wisconsin, 1949
Harold M. Door, University of Michigan, 1950
Charles M. Kneier, University of Illinois, 1951
Harold M. Vinacke, University of Cincinnati, 1952
Kirk H. Porter, State University of Iowa, 1953
Harry W. Voltmer, DePauw University, 1954
Asher Christensen, University of Minnesota, 1955
Edward H. Buehrig, Indiana University, 1955 (Acting President)
David Fellman, University of Wisconsin, 1956
Wilfred E. Binkley, Ohio Northern University, 1957
Clarence A. Berdahl, University of Illinois, 1958
Jasper B. Shannon, University of Nebraska, 1959
Amry Vandenbosch, University of Kentucky, 1960
Lloyd M. Short, University of Minnesota, 1961
Richard Spencer, Coe College, 1962
E. Allen Helms, Ohio State University, 1963
William O. Farber, University of South Dakota, 1964
John E. Stoner, Indiana University, 1965
Clara Penniman, University of Wisconsin, 1966
Vernon Van Dyke, University of Iowa, 1967
John D. Lewis, Oberlin College, 1968
Samuel J. Eldersveld, University of Michigan, 1969
Merle Kling, Washington University, 1970
John Wahlke, University of Iowa, 1971
Leon D. Epstein, University of Wisconsin, 1972
Doris A. Graber, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, 1973
Frank Sorauf, University of Minnesota, 1974
Charles Press, Michigan State University, 1975
Norton Long, University of Missouri, St. Louis, 1976
Samuel Krislov, University of Minnesota, 1977
Robert Salisbury, Washington University, 1978
John Kessel, Ohio State University, 1979
Malcolm E. Jewell, University of Kentucky, 1980
Samuel C. Patterson, University of Iowa, 1981
Dina Zinnes, University of Illinois, 1982
Jack Dennis, University of Wisconsin, 1983
Lucius Barker, Washington University, St. Louis, 1984
Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, 1985
W. Phillips Shively, University of Minnesota, 1986
Ada W. Finifter, Michigan State University, 1987
John Kingdon, University of Michigan, 1988
William Crotty, Northwestern University, 1989
Richard Watson, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1990
Marjorie Randon Hershey, Indiana University, 1991
Charles O. Jones, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992
Susan Welch, Penn State, 1993
Lee Sigelman, George Washington University, 1994
John Sprague, Washington University, 1995
James Stimson, University of Minnesota, 1996
Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan, 1997
Harold Spaeth, Michigan State University, 1998
James L. Gibson, Washington University, 1999
Milton Lodge, SUNY-Stony Brook, 2000
Robert Huckfeldt, Indiana University, 2001
Herbert Weisberg, The Ohio State University, 2002
Lee Epstein, Washington University, 2003
Virginia Gray, University of North Carolina, 2004
John Aldrich, Duke University, 2005

Presidents of the Canadian Political Science Association

Adam Shortt, (Civil Service Commission), 1913-1914
O.D. Skelton, (Queen’s), 1929-1930
Stephen B. Leacock, (McGill), 1934-1935
R.H. Coats, (Toronto), 1935-1936
W.A. Mackintosh, (Queen’s), 1936-1937
H.A. Innis, (Toronto), 1937-1938
J.W. Dafoe, (Winnipeg Free Press), 1938-1939
J.C. Hemmeon, 1939-1940
W.C. Clark, (Deputy Minister of Finance), 1940-1941
H. Mitchell, 1941-1942
C.A. Dawson, 1942-1943
R.A. MacKay, (Dalhousie), 1943-1944
K.W. Taylor, 1944-1945
R. MacGregor Dawson, (Toronto), 1945-1946
F.A. Knox, 1946-1947
V.W. Bladen, (Toronto), 1947-1948
H.F. Angus, (British Columbia), 1948-1949
W.B. Hurd, (McMaster), 1949-1950
C.A. Curtis, (Curtis), 1950-1951
G.-H. Levesque, (Laval), 1951-1952
Herbert Marshall, 1952-1953
Alexander Brady, (Toronto), 1953-1954
J.A. Corry, (Queen’s), 1954-1955
J.D. Gibson, 1955-1956
G.E. Britnell, (Sasktachewan), 1956-1957
G.A. Elliott, (Alberta), 1957-1958
S.D. Clark, (Toronto), 1958-1959
Mabel Timlin, (Saskatchewan), 1959-1960
C.A. Ashley, 1960-1961
Eugene A. Forsey, (Canadian Labour Congress), 1961-1962
W.J. Waines, 1962-1963
C.B. Macpherson, (Toronto), 1963-1964
Jean-Charles Falardeau, (Laval), 1964-1965
Harry G. Johnson, (London School of Economics/Chicago), 1965-1966
Anthony D. Scott, (British Columbia), 1966-1967
H.B. Mayo, (Carleton), 1967-1968
Donald V. Smiley, (British Columbia), 1968-1969
Douglas V. Verney, (York), 1969-1970
Gilles Lalande, (Montréal), 1970-1971
J.E. Hodgetts, (Toronto), 1971-1972
Jean Laponce, (British Columbia), 1972-1973
John Meisel, (Queen’s), 1973-1974
Léon Dion, (Laval), 1974-1975
Donald C. Rowat, (Carleton), 1975-1976
Alan C. Cairns, (British Columbia), 1976-1977
Hugh Thorburn, (Queen’s), 1977-1978
Kenneth D. McRae, (Carleton), 1978-1979
Paul W. Fox, (Toronto), 1979-1980
Walter D. Young, (Victoria), 1980-1981
Denis W. Stairs, (Dalhousie), 1981-1982
Edwin R. Black, (Queen’s), 1982-1983
Caroline Andrew, (Ottawa), 1983-1984
Kalevi J. Holsti, (British Columbia), 1984-1985
Frederick C. Engelmann, (Alberta), 1985-1986
O.P. Dwivedi, (Guelph), 1986-1987
John C. Courtney, (Saskatchewan), 1987-1988
David J. Elkins, (British Columbia), 1988-1989
André-J. Bélanger, (Montréal), 1989-1990
Peter H. Russell, (Toronto), 1990-1991
Vincent Lemieux, (Laval), 1991-1992
V. Seymour Wilson, (Carleton), 1992-1993
Sylvia Bashevkin, (Toronto), 1993-1994
David Smith, (Saskatchewan), 1994-1995
Peter Aucoin, (Dalhousie), 1995-1996
Jane Jenson, (Montréal), 1996-1997
Tom Pocklington, (Alberta), 1997-1998
Donald Savoie, (Moncton), 1998-1999
Roger Gibbins, (Calgary), 1999-2000
Kenneth McRoberts, (York), 2000-2001
R. Kenneth Carty, (British Columbia), 2001-2002
Grace Skogstad, (Toronto), 2002-2003
Robert Young, (Western Ontario), 2003-2004
André Blais, (Montréal), 2004-2005

Presidents of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association

Jeffrey K. Tulis, (University of Texas at Austin), 1990-1991
Theda Skocpol, (Harvard University), 1991-1992
Ira Katznelson, (Columbia University), 1992-93
Walter Dean Burnham, (University of Texas at Austin), 1993-1994
Stephen Skowronek, (Yale University), 1994-1995
Karen Orren, (UCLA), 1995-1996
Martin Shefter, (Cornell), 1996-97
Margaret Weir, (University of California, Berkeley) 1997-1998
Ian Lustick, (University of Pennsylvania), 1998-1999
James Morone, (Brown University), 1999-2000
Anne Norton, (University of Pennsylvania), 2000-2001
Rogers Smith, (Yale University), 2001-2002
Eileen McDonough, (Northeastern University), 2002-2003
Paul Pierson, (Harvard University), 2003-2004
Elizabeth Sanders, (Cornell), 2004-2005
Sidney Milkis, (University of Virginia), 2005-2006
Victoria Hattam, (New School for Social Research), 2006-2007