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List of political theorists
A
political theorist
is someone who engages in
constructing
or evaluating
political theory
, including
political philosophy
. Theorists may be academics or
independent scholars
.
Notable historic political theorists
Aristotle
John Austin
Simion Bărnuțiu
Frederic Bastiat
Jeremy Bentham
Jean Bodin
Edmund Burke
Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui
John C. Calhoun
Chanakya
Noam Chomsky
Cicero
Friedrich Engels
Benjamin Franklin
Hugo Grotius
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Thomas Hobbes
Immanuel Kant
John Locke
Niccolò Machiavelli
James Madison
Karl Marx
John Stuart Mill
John Milton
Gustave de Molinari
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Thomas More
Thomas Paine
Plato
Samuel von Pufendorf
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John of Salisbury
Lysander Spooner
Alexis de Tocqueville
Ryōhei Uchida
20th-century political theorists
Bruce Ackerman
Theodor Adorno
Giorgio Agamben
Tariq Ali
Gabriel Almond
Louis Althusser
Hannah Arendt
Raymond Aron
Muhammad Asad
Benjamin Barber
Ernest Barker
Robert
N. Bellah
Seyla Benhabib
Walter Benjamin
Isaiah Berlin
Hans T. Blokland
Allan Bloom
Norberto Bobbio
Eileen Hunt Botting
Eoin Ó Broin
Stephen Bronner
Wendy Brown
James Burnham
Margaret Canovan
Cornelius Castoriadis
Lorella Cedroni
Noam Chomsky
Tony Cliff
G. D. H. Cole
William E. Connolly
Drucilla Cornell
Dobrica Ćosić
, Yugoslav and Serbian
Joseph Cropsey
Robert Dahl
John Dewey
Raya Dunayevskaya
John Dunn
Ronald Dworkin
David Easton
Susan Fainstein
Frantz Fanon
Richard E. Flathman
Michel Foucault
Nancy Fraser
David D. Friedman
Carl Friedrich
Erich Fromm
Muammar Gaddafi
William Galston
Emma Goldman
Antonio Gramsci
Antonia Grunenberg
Che Guevara
Alma Guillermoprieto
Amy Gutmann
Jürgen Habermas
Clive Hamilton
Michael Hardt
Louis Hartz
Friedrich Hayek
David Held
Paul Hirst
Ho Chi Minh
L. T. Hobhouse
John Holloway
Bonnie Honig
Allama Iqbal
C.L.R. James
Jean Jaurès
Leo Jogiches
V. O. Key, Jr.
Kim Il-Sung
Russell Kirk
Leszek Kołakowski
Chandran Kukathas
Will Kymlicka
Ernesto Laclau
Rose Wilder Lane
Harold
J. Laski
Harold D. Lasswell
Henri Lefebvre
Claude Lefort
Vladimir Lenin
Theodore J. Lowi
Steven Lukes
Rosa Luxemburg
Dwight Macdonald
Tibor Machan
Alasdair MacIntyre
C. B. Macpherson
Harvey Mansfield
Herbert Marcuse
David Miller
Chantal Mouffe
Antonio Negri
Saul Newman
Anne Norton
Martha Nussbaum
Robert Nozick
Abdullah Öcalan
Michael Oakeshott
Susan Moller Okin
Thomas Pangle
Carole Pateman
Lorenzo Peña
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
John Plamenatz
J.G.A. Pocock
Robert D. Putnam
Ayn Rand
John Rawls
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Joseph Raz
Murray Rothbard
Jean-Paul Sartre
Mario Savio
Carl Schmitt
Joseph Schumpeter
Judith N. Shklar
James C. Scott
Leo Strauss
Charles Taylor
Leon Trotsky
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Eric Voegelin
Jouke de Vries
Graham Wallas
Michael Walzer
Beatrice Webb
Sidney Webb
Simone Weil
Sheldon Wolin
Iris Marion Young
Raúl Zibechi
Howard Zinn
Kenneth Arrow