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List of political theorists

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A political theorist is someone who engages in constructing or evaluating political theory, including political philosophy. Theorists may be academics or independent scholars.

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Notable historic political theorists

  • Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Aristotle
  • Baruch Spinoza
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Chanakya
  • Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
  • Cicero
  • Edmund Burke
  • Frederic Bastiat
  • Frederick Engels
  • Gustave de Molinari
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Hugo Grotius
  • Immanuel Kant
  • James Madison
  • Jean Bodin
  • Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Jeremy Bentham
  • Johann Gottfried von Herder
  • John Austin
  • John C. Calhoun
  • John Locke
  • John Milton
  • John of Salisbury
  • John Stuart Mill
  • Karl Marx
  • Lysander Spooner
  • Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Plato
  • Ryōhei Uchida
  • Samuel Pufendorf
  • Simion Bărnuțiu
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Thomas More
  • Thomas Paine

    • 20th-century political theorists

  • Alasdair MacIntyre
  • Allama Iqbal
  • Allan Bloom
  • Alma Guillermoprieto
  • Amy Gutmann
  • Anne Norton
  • Antonio Gramsci
  • Antonio Negri
  • Ayn Rand
  • Beatrice Webb
  • Benjamin Barber
  • Bonnie Honig
  • Bruce Ackerman
  • Carl Friedrich
  • Carl Schmitt
  • Carole Pateman
  • C. B. Macpherson
  • Chandran Kukathas
  • Chantal Mouffe
  • Charles Taylor
  • C.L.R. James
  • Che Guevara
  • Claude Lefort
  • Clive Hamilton
  • Cornelius Castoriadis
  • David D. Friedman
  • David Easton
  • David Held
  • David Miller
  • Dobrica Ćosić (1921–2014), Yugoslav and Serbian
  • Drucilla Cornell
  • Dwight Macdonald
  • Emma Goldman
  • Eoin Ó Broin
  • Erich Fromm
  • Eric Voegelin
  • Ernest Barker
  • Ernesto Laclau
  • Frantz Fanon
  • Friedrich Hayek
  • Gabriel Almond
  • G. D. H. Cole
  • Giorgio Agamben
  • Graham Wallas
  • Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
  • Hannah Arendt
  • Hans T. Blokland
  • Harold D. Lasswell
  • Harold J. Laski
  • Harvey Mansfield
  • Henri Lefebvre
  • Herbert Marcuse
  • Howard Zinn
  • Iris Marion Young
  • Isaiah Berlin
  • James Burnham
  • James C. Scott
  • Jean Jaurès
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • J.G.A. Pocock
  • John Dewey
  • John Dunn
  • John Plamenatz
  • John Rawls
  • Joseph Cropsey
  • Joseph Raz
  • Joseph Schumpeter
  • Jouke de Vries
  • Judith N. Shklar
  • Jürgen Habermas
  • Kim Il-Sung
  • Leo Jogiches
  • Leo Strauss
  • Leon Trotsky
  • Lorenzo Peña
  • Louis Althusser
  • Louis Hartz
  • L. T. Hobhouse
  • Mario Savio
  • Martha Nussbaum
  • Michael Hardt
  • Michael Oakeshott
  • Michael Walzer
  • Michel Foucault
  • Muhammad Asad
  • Murray Rothbard
  • Nancy Fraser
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Norberto Bobbio
  • Paul Hirst* John Holloway
  • Raúl Zibechi
  • Raya Dunayevskaya
  • Raymond Aron
  • Richard E. Flathman
  • Robert Dahl
  • Robert D. Putnam
  • Robert N. Bellah
  • Robert Nozick
  • Roberto Mangabeira Unger
  • Ronald Dworkin
  • Rosa Luxemburg
  • Rose Wilder Lane
  • Russell Kirk
  • Saul Newman
  • Seyla Benhabib
  • Sheldon Wolin
  • Sidney Webb
  • Simone Weil
  • Stephen Bronner
  • Steven Lukes
  • Susan Moller Okin
  • Tariq Ali
  • Theodor Adorno
  • Theodore J. Lowi
  • Thomas Pangle
  • Tibor Machan
  • Tony Cliff
  • Vladimir Lenin
  • V. O. Key, Jr.
  • Leszek Kołakowski
  • Walter Benjamin
  • Wendy Brown
  • William E. Connolly
  • William Galston
  • Will Kymlicka

    • References

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