Political theorist
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A political theorist is someone who engages in political theory.
Notable historic political theorists
- Aristotle
- John Austin
- Frederic Bastiat
- Jeremy Bentham
- Jean Bodin
- Edmund Burke
- Frederick Engels
- Hugo Grotius
- Johann Gottfried von Herder
- Thomas Hobbes
- John Locke
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Karl Marx
- John Stuart Mill
- John Milton
- Gustave de Molinari
- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
- Thomas More
- Thomas Paine
- Plato
- Samuel Pufendorf
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John of Salisbury
- Baruch Spinoza
- Lysander Spooner
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Twentieth-century political theorists
- Gabriel Almomd
- Hannah Arendt
- Isaiah Berlin
- Stephen Bronner
- Noam Chomsky
- David Easton
- Michel Foucault
- David Friedman
- Clive Hamilton
- Jean Jaurès
- V. O. Key, Jr.
- Russell Kirk
- Harold J. Laski
- Harold D. Lasswell
- Vladimir Lenin
- Robert Paul Nozick
- G. Bingham Powell
- John Rawls
- Murray Rothbard
- Leo Strauss
- Leon Trotsky
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger
- Graham Wallas
- Stephen L. Wasby
- Beatrice Webb
- Sidney Webb