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List of political scientists

The following is a list of notable political scientists. Political science is the scientific study of politics, a social science dealing with systems of governance and power.

A

 * Robert Abelson – Yale University psychologist and political scientist with special interests in statistics and logic
 * Henry J. Abraham – American scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law and James Hart Professor of Government Emeritus at the University of Virginia
 * Alan Abramowitz – expert in American politics, political parties, ideological realignment, elections, and voting behavior; professor at Emory University
 * Paul R. Abramson – American political scientist known for his research and writing on American, European, and Israeli elections and professor of political science at Michigan State University
 * As'ad AbuKhalil – Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus.
 * Ibrahim Abu-Lughod – Palestinian-American academic and professor for political science at Northwestern University for 34 years.
 * Brooke Ackerly – expert on grounded normative theory, feminist theory, feminist international relations, and scholar activism, professor at Vanderbilt University
 * Martha Ackelsberg – American political scientist and women's studies scholar at Smith College
 * David Adamany – public law specialist and President of Temple University
 * Charles R. Adrian – American professor of political science who specialized in municipal politics
 * Vinod Aggarwal – American political scientist specializing in international political economy
 * Robert Agranoff – American political scientist and public administration scholar and author
 * Arun Agrawal – political scientist in the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan
 * Janet Ajzenstat – Canadian political historian at McMaster University
 * Adeolu Akande – professor of political science at the Igbinedion University
 * Bolaji Akinyemi – Nigerian professor of political science
 * Bethany Albertson – American political psychologist
 * Daniel P. Aldrich – American political scientist, public policy and Asian studies scholar at Northeastern University
 * John Aldrich – political parties expert at Duke University, author of Why Parties?
 * John R. Alford – political science professor at Rice University who researches genopolitics
 * Hayward Alker – professor of international relations at the University of Southern California, MIT and Yale who specialized in research methods, core international relations theory, international politics, and security
 * Danielle Allen – American classicist and political scientist
 * Graham Allison – early proponent of the bureaucratic politics model, author of Essence of Decision, national security specialist, former Dean of Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University
 * Gabriel A. Almond – originator of the culturist movement in comparative politics
 * Gar Alperovitz – political economist
 * Karen Alter – American academic who conducts interdisciplinary work on international law's influence in international and domestic politics
 * Scott Althaus – professor of political science and communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the director of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the university
 * Micah Altman – American social scientist who conducts research in social science informatics
 * R. Michael Alvarez – professor of political science at California Institute of Technology and co-director of the Voting Technology Project
 * Tabata Amaral – Brazilian political scientist and federal deputy for São Paulo
 * Ambedkar – jurist, economist and chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of India
 * Thomas Ambrosio – professor of political science in the Criminal Justice and Political Science Department at North Dakota State University
 * Kristi Andersen – American political scientist at Syracuse University who studies party realignment
 * Walter K. Andersen – American academic known for his studies of the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
 * Benedict Anderson – Chinese-born Irish political scientist and historian in the US, author of Imagined Communities
 * Lisa Anderson – American political scientist and the former president of the American University in Cairo
 * Walter Truett Anderson – American political scientist, social psychologist, and author of non-fiction books and articles
 * William Anderson – specialist in public administration
 * Mina Andreeva – Bulgarian political scientist and chief spokesperson for the European Commission
 * Marimba Ani – anthropologist and African Studies scholar best known for her work Yurugu
 * Stephen Ansolabehere – professor of government at Harvard University
 * William Antholis – Greek-American political scientist, director and CEO of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia
 * David Apter – American political scientist and sociologist who was Henry J. Heinz Professor of Comparative Political and Social Development and senior research scientist at Yale University
 * Asher Arian – American and Israeli political scientist who was an expert on Politics of Israel and election studies
 * Hadley Arkes – American political scientist and the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions emeritus at Amherst College
 * John Alexander Armstrong – Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
 * Larry Arnhart – Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northern Illinois University
 * Richard Ashcraft – American political theorist and professor of political science at UCLA
 * Herb Asher – professor emeritus of political science at Ohio State University
 * Richard K. Ashley – postmodernist scholar of international relations
 * Ronald Asmus – diplomat and political analyst and then senior think tank policy analyst
 * Scott Atran – American-French political and cultural anthropologist
 * Sharon Wright Austin – Director of the African-American Studies Program and a professor of political science at the University of Florida
 * Deborah Avant – American political scientist at the University of Denver
 * Bill Avery – politician from the state of Nebraska and retired political scientist who specializes in international trade and foreign relations
 * Robert Axelrod – expert on game theory and complexity theory, wrote extensively on the Prisoner's Dilemma, former president of American Political Science Association
 * Julia Azari – American political scientist, professor of political science at Marquette University and contributor to FiveThirtyEight
 * Jeremy Azrael – American political scientist known for his expertise on the economy of the Soviet Union

B

 * Andrew Bacevich
 * Gawdat Bahgat
 * Kathleen Cordelia Bailey
 * Fatih Baja – Gar Yunis University teacher and member of the National Transitional Council in charge of political affairs
 * Susan Baker – Irish scholar of environmental governance in the European Union and ecofeminism, gender and the environment at Cardiff University
 * Lisa Baldez
 * Michel Balinski
 * Moniz Bandeira – Brazilian writer, professor, political scientist, historian and poet
 * Mary Jo Bane
 * Edward C. Banfield
 * Benjamin Barber – proponent of participatory democracy and local governance teaching at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy
 * James David Barber – developed a classification system of the personality types of American presidents
 * Stephen Barber – noted for his work on political strategy and political economy, author of Political Strategy
 * Line Bareiro – Paraguayan political scientist, civil rights activist and feminist
 * Joel Barkan
 * Lucius Barker
 * Michael Barkun
 * A. Doak Barnett
 * Michael Barnett – specialist in international relations
 * Thomas P.M. Barnett – security strategist
 * Simion Bărnuţiu – noted for his work on political strategy in Austria and Romania
 * Bethany Barratt
 * Matt A. Barreto
 * David M. Barrett
 * Larry Bartels – democracy and voting expert at Vanderbilt University
 * Robert V. Bartlett
 * Gad Barzilai – Law and Politics, Human Rights and Politics, Communities and Law at University of Washington
 * Sylvia Bashevkin – Canadian scholar of women and politics
 * Stephen Baskerville
 * Amrita Basu
 * Robert Bates
 * Frank Baumgartner
 * Phineas Baxandall
 * David H. Bayley
 * Elmira Bayrasli
 * Robert J. Beck
 * Holmes Beckwith
 * Francis Beer
 * Samuel Beer
 * Edward Beiser
 * Linda Royster Beito
 * Charles Beitz
 * Aaron Belkin
 * Adolphus G. Belk Jr.
 * Alon Ben-Meir
 * Daniel Benjamin
 * Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi – Moroccan political scientist, author and professor at the University of Lausanne
 * Linda L. M. Bennett
 * W. Lance Bennett
 * William Benoit
 * Myriam Benraad
 * Richard Bensel
 * Arthur F. Bentley
 * Suzanne Berger
 * Adam Berinsky
 * Peter Berkowitz
 * Ilan Berman
 * Marshall Berman
 * Sheri Berman
 * Nancy Bermeo
 * William D. Berry
 * Michele Betsill
 * Richard K. Betts – prize-winning author in a number of political science areas
 * Mark Bevir – professor of political science and director of the Center for British Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
 * Seweryn Bialer
 * Thomas J. Biersteker
 * Leonard Binder
 * Sarah Binder
 * Thomas A. Birkland
 * Sarah Birch – professor in comparative politics at King's College London
 * Thomas A. Birkland – author of Lessons of Disaster
 * Rachel Bitecofer
 * Duncan Black – Spatial voting theorist
 * Earl Black
 * Merle Black
 * Chris Blattman
 * 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
 * Lincoln P. Bloomfield
 * Virgil Blum
 * Mark Blyth
 * Lawrence Bobo
 * Alan Bock
 * Sophie Body-Gendrot
 * Vernon Bogdanor
 * B. Anthony Bogues
 * Jean-Charles de Borda – 18th-century mathematician who devised the Borda count
 * David Bositis
 * Eileen Hunt Botting
 * Catherine Boone
 * Ammar Bouhouche – Algerian political and military leader and academic political scientist
 * Terry Bouricius
 * Donna Lee Bowen
 * Shaun Bowler
 * Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier
 * Mark A. Boyer
 * Jules Boykoff
 * Paul Bracken
 * David W. Brady
 * Henry E. Brady
 * Ralph Braibanti
 * Steven Brams – expert on voting systems
 * Laurie Brand
 * Paul Brass
 * Ahron Bregman – expert on the Arab–Israeli conflict
 * Ian Bremmer – political risk specialist
 * Emma_Briant - expert on propaganda and information warfare, Associate Professor of News and Political Communication at Monash University.
 * Janine Brodie – Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Political Economy and Social Governance at the University of Alberta
 * Stephen Brooks – international relations scholar
 * Lara Brown – American political scientist and director of the Graduate School of Political Management at the George Washington University
 * Nadia E. Brown – uses intersectionality to study identity politics, legislative studies, and Black women's studies
 * Robert X. Browning – specialist in American politics and chief archivist for C-SPAN
 * Zbigniew Brzezinski – Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman
 * Bruce Bueno de Mesquita – pioneering game theorist with applications to international relations, author of selectorate theory
 * Ralph Bunche – American political scientist and diplomat; received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine
 * Walter Dean Burnham – expert in the field of realigning elections, emeritus at University of Texas at Austin
 * David Butler – pioneer of modern British political science, invented the concept of swing

C

 * William A. Callahan
 * Melani Cammett – Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
 * Linda Cardinal – University Professor and a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Francophonie and Public Policies at the University of Ottawa
 * Ira Carmen – co-founder of the social science subdiscipline of genetics and politics
 * Edward Hallett Carr – international relations theorist
 * Alfredo Castillero Hoyos – democracy and human rights; former member of the United Nations's Human Rights Committee
 * George Catlin (1896–1979) – English political scientist and philosopher; strong proponent of Anglo-America cooperation; worked for many years as a professor at Cornell University
 * Jocelyne Cesari – French political scientist
 * Pamela Chasek – international environmental policy expert
 * Partha Chatterjee – Indian postcolonial critic, political and social scientist
 * Rumman Chowdhury – Bengali-American political scientist and data scientist at Accenture
 * Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri – international relations, Indology at Institute of Commonwealth Studies
 * Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook – Director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations and co-founder and executive director of the Future of Diplomacy project, at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
 * John Coakley – specialist in ethnic conflict and Irish politics
 * Benjamin Cohen – leader in the field of international political economy
 * Elizabeth F. Cohen – American expert on citizenship and immigration
 * Stephen P. Cohen – Middle East specialist
 * James Smoot Coleman – early Africanist, founded the UCLA African Studies Center
 * Marquis de Condorcet – 18th-century mathematician and philosopher who contributed the often used "Condorcet criterion" and devised the concept of a Condorcet method
 * Ralph W. Conant – author of The Prospects for Revolution and Toward a More Perfect Union: The Governance of Metropolitan America
 * Philip Converse – public opinion scholar, author of The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics
 * Timothy E. Cook – politics and media
 * Clyde Coombs – voting systems expert, designed "Coombs' method"
 * Morgan Lyon Cotti – professor, associate director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics
 * Philip Cowley – author of Revolts and Rebellions
 * Edvin Kanka Ćudić – Bosnian political scientist and human rights activist, founder and coordinator of UDIK in Bosnia and Herzegovina

D

 * Alison Dagnes – American specialist in politics and the media, politics and humor, and political scandal
 * Robert A. Dahl – American politics specialist, author of On Democracy
 * Jouke de Vries – Frisian politician and professor at the university of Leiden
 * Vera Micheles Dean – Russian American political scientist, former head of research for the Foreign Policy Association, and leading international affairs authority in the 1940s and 1950s
 * Ronald Deibert – Canadian political scientist and founder and director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto
 * Fatima Denton – Ethiopian political scientist, Officer-in-Charge of the Special Initiatives Division and the Co-ordinator for the African Climate Policy Centre of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
 * 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
 * Larry Diamond – comparative democratization specialist; professor at Stanford University
 * Thomas Diez – chair in International Relations at the University of Birmingham
 * Michelle Dion – professor in the department of political science and the Senator William McMaster Chair in Gender and Methodology at McMaster University
 * John DiIulio – American politics expert at the University of Pennsylvania
 * Ruth Dixon – winner of the Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration and the W. J. M. Mackenzie award of the Political Studies Association.
 * 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
 * Anthony Downs – contributed to democratic theory, elections studies
 * Donald Downs – professor at University of Wisconsin; researcher for Independent Institute
 * Michael W. Doyle – international relations theorist, author of Empires
 * Daniel Drezner – professor at Tufts University, specializing in international politics
 * Murray Dry – professor at Middlebury College, specializing in constitutional law
 * John Dryzek – professor at the Australian National University, specializing in deliberative democracy and environmental politics
 * John Dunn – political theorist at the University of Cambridge
 * Maurice Duverger – French lawyer and sociologist responsible for Duverger's law
 * 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
 * Susan Eaton – American political scientist and workers' rights activist
 * Daniel J. Elazar – American federalism and political culture scholar, founder of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, political science professor at Bar Ilan (Israel) and Temple University
 * Keisha Lynne Ellis – Bahamian political scientist
 * Jean Bethke Elshtain – American political philosopher focusing on gender, ethics, American democracy, and international relations
 * 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
 * Jadwiga Emilewicz – Polish politician, political scientist, and government minister
 * Cynthia Enloe – international relations scholar focusing on Feminism in international relations, editor for such scholarly journals as Signs and the International Feminist Journal of Politics
 * Eqbal Ahmed – Pakistani political scientist and Third World scholer

F

 * C. Christine Fair – American political scientist who studies counter-terrorism and South Asian topics
 * James D. Fearon – American political scientist focusing on theory of civil wars, international bargaining, war's inefficiency puzzle and audience costs
 * Peter D. Feaver – international security expert
 * Dafydd Fell – British political scientist
 * David Fellman – Constitutional scholar
 * Richard Fenno – Congress scholar, author of Home Style: House Members in their Districts
 * Thomas Ferguson – politics and economics
 * Joel S. Fetzer – comparative politics specialist; distinguished professor at Pepperdine University
 * Samuel Finer – academic and author on political science and history of government
 * Norman Finkelstein – author on political science, notable for The Holocaust Industry
 * Martha Finnemore – international relations and international organizations scholar
 * Morris P. Fiorina – American politics; proposed retrospective vote theory
 * Peter Fishburn – operations analysis and probability theory expert
 * Keith Fitzgerald – immigration politics expert
 * Naika Foroutan – German political scientist studying immigration and integration
 * James H. Fowler – expert on political participation, the evolution of cooperation, and social network theory (UCSD)
 * Daniel P. Franklin – American politics; politics of the presidency and Politics and Film
 * Annette Baker Fox – international relations scholar
 * William T. R. Fox – international relations theorist, coiner of the term "superpower"
 * Ernst Fraenkel – German political scientist and one of the founding fathers of German political science after World War II
 * Doris Fuchs (scientist) – German political scientist and Professor of International Relations and Sustainable Development at the University of Münster
 * Francis Fukuyama – international political theory and biopolitics
 * Archon Fung

G

 * Michael Gallagher
 * Krenar Gashi – Ghent University political scientist and former Financial Times reporter
 * Lisa García Bedolla – UC Berkeley professor, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, and dean of the Graduate Division
 * Scott Gates – specialist in international relations
 * Barbara Geddes – scholar of authoritarianism and authoritarian regimes
 * Anthony Giddens – political sociologist originator of the Third Way
 * Elisabeth Gidengil – Hiram Mills Professor of political science at McGill University studying political engagement and Canadian politics
 * Robert Gilpin – international political economy specialist
 * Benjamin Ginsberg – professor at Johns Hopkins University focusing on American politics
 * Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson – Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland focusing on political theory
 * Marianne Githens – political scientist, feminist, author, professor, and co-founder of the Women's Study Program at Goucher College
 * Betty Glad – American researcher of the American presidency and American foreign policy
 * Siri Gloppen – Norwegian political scientist
 * Sheldon Goldman – expert on American federal courts; professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
 * Grigorii Golosov – expert on political institutions and electoral systems, professor at European University at Saint Petersburg
 * David F. Gordon – political risk specialist, former US Director of Policy Planning
 * Harold Foote Gosnell – research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties in political science
 * Marie Gottschalk – American political scientist known for her work on mass incarceration in the United States
 * Heather Grabbe – political scientist, activist, and director of the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels, Belgium
 * Doris Graber – American pioneer in the field of political communication
 * Colin Gray – international security
 * Donald Green – Professor of Political Science at Columbia University focusing on field experiments in American politics
 * Jane Green – professor of political science at the University of Manchester and co-director of the British Election Study who specialised in public opinion and electoral behaviour
 * Liah Greenfeld – Israeli, American, and Russian social scientist
 * Anna Grzymala – American political scientist, currently at Stanford University and previously also the Ronald Eileen Weiser Professor at University of Michigan
 * Rhiana Gunn-Wright – American policy director
 * Yaprak Gürsoy – Turkish political scientist and associate professor in the Department of International Relations at the Istanbul Bilgi University
 * Ted Robert Gurr – specialist on conflict and violence
 * Amy Gutmann – political theory expert; president of the University of Pennsylvania (2004–present)

H

 * Michael Haas – Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai'i
 * Jacob Hacker – Professor of Political Science at Yale University
 * Henrike Hahn – German political scientist and politician who is a Member of the European Parliament
 * Paul Y. Hammond – American foreign policy and national security specialist at University of Pittsburgh and elsewhere
 * Harry Harding – China specialist
 * Thomas Hare – devised single transferable vote (also known as Hare's method)
 * Jeremy Harris – American politics specialist
 * Michael Hart – British twentieth-century politics specialist
 * Louis Hartz – American author of The Liberal Tradition in America
 * Mary Hawkesworth – American political scientist and Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University
 * Colin Hay – influential British political scientist
 * Clarissa Rile Hayward – professor at Washington University in St. Louis studying the theory of political power and political identities
 * Katharine Hayhoe – atmospheric scientist and professor of political science at Texas Tech University and director of the Climate Science Center
 * Susan Hekman – professor of political science and director of the graduate humanities program at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)
 * Marc Hetherington – author of Why Trust Matters; offered a new participation paradigm
 * Christopher J. Hill – international relations scholar, Professor and director of the Cambridge Centre of International Studies
 * Roger Hilsman – aide to John F. Kennedy, Columbia University professor, and prolific author
 * Nancy Hirschmann – Professor of Politics at the University of Pennsylvania working in the intersection of political theory and public policy
 * Sara Hobolt – Danish political scientist who specialises in European politics and electoral behaviour
 * Thomas Holbrook – public opinion and elections research, author Do Campaigns Matter?
 * Christopher Hood – author of The Art of the State and A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?
 * Donald L. Horowitz – pioneered political science models for assessing ethnic conflict
 * Mala Htun – studies women's rights and the politics of race and ethnicity in a comparative context
 * Evelyne Huber – studies democracy and redistribution with a focus on Latin America
 * Mark Huddleston – former President of Ohio Wesleyan University and President of the University of New Hampshire
 * Samuel P. Huntington – author of Clash of Civilizations and The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century; comparativist

I

 * Kancha Ilaiah – Dalit scholar and social scientist
 * Ronald Inglehart – professor at the University of Michigan; founder of the World Values Survey
 * Shanto Iyengar – American political scientist

J

 * David J. Jackson – Entertainment/celebrity and politics expert
 * Lawrence R. Jacobs – American political scientist and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota
 * Gary Jacobson – Constitutional law expert
 * Ashley E. Jardina – American political scientist and assistant professor of political science at Duke University
 * Attahiru Jega – Nigerian political scientists specialised in political development. former INEC chairman and also Former vice Chancellor of Bayero University.
 * Robert Jervis – international security specialist
 * Chalmers Johnson – comparative theorist
 * Jason A. Johnson – campaign management
 * Loch K. Johnson – United States intelligence expert
 * Timothy R. Johnson, political science and law; noted for his work covering the Supreme Court of the United States
 * Charles O. Jones – specialist in American politics
 * Bertrand de Jouvenel – French political scientist; co-founder of Mont Pelerin Society

K

 * Kelly Kadera – professor at University of Iowa studying international relations, democratic backsliding, and gender in politics using dynamic models
 * Alice Kang – professor at University of Nebraska at Lincoln, expert in African politics and gender research
 * Nazokat Kasimova – Uzbekistani political scientist, also noted for her work within the field of higher education reform
 * Nina Kasniunas – author and the Arsht Professor in Ethics and Leadership at Goucher College
 * Nancy Kassop – Professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz
 * Peter Katzenstein – professor at Cornell, former president of the American Political Science Association
 * Ira Katznelson – specialist in American and comparative politics
 * Dennis Kavanagh
 * Michael Keating – specialist in nationalism, European integration and regionalism
 * Margaret Keck – developed the study of international activist movements and networked advocacy
 * Edmond Keller – specialist in African politics
 * Willmoore Kendall – political theorist; teacher of William F. Buckley, Jr.
 * Robert O. Keohane – interdependence theory author
 * Ben Kerkvliet – specialist in comparative politics
 * Cornelius Kerwin – Former president of American University
 * V.O. Key, Jr. – elections, parties and public opinion scholar
 * Laleh Khalili – Iranian American and professor in Middle Eastern politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies
 * Ilona Kickbusch – German political scientist best known for her contribution to health promotion and global health
 * Gary King – professor at Harvard, political methodologist
 * John W. Kingdon – specialist in American politics
 * Grayson L. Kirk – specialist in international relations and President of Columbia University
 * Henry Kissinger – former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President Richard M. Nixon
 * Herbert Kitschelt – author on new radical right parties
 * Samara Klar – professor and founder of Women Also Know Stuff
 * Stephen D. Krasner – international regimes author, Director of Policy Planning under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and professor at Stanford University
 * Michael Krassa – elections, social context, architecture and society; lobbyist, consultant, political sociologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
 * Oskar Krejčí – theory of international relations, elections and political psychology, former advisor to two Czechoslovak premieres
 * Sarah Kreps – foreign and defense policy, nuclear proliferation, and government transparency
 * James Kurth
 * Will Kymlicka – originated the theoretical foundations of multiculturalism

L

 * Guy Laforest – liberalism (John Locke) scholar; Quebec and Canadian politics specialist
 * Celinda Lake – American survey methodologist, pollster, and political strategist
 * Enid Lakeman – British political reformer, writer and politician, noted for her long-standing championship of the Single Transferable Vote system of elections
 * Laura Langbein – American quantitative methodologist and professor of public administration and policy at American University
 * Harold Lasswell – political communications, pioneered early efforts to establish the policy sciences and influential contributor to the Stages Heuristic
 * Adria Lawrence – American political scientist and the Aronson Associate Professor of International Studies and Political Science at Johns Hopkins University
 * Jack Layton – former leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, Ph.D. in Political Science
 * Richard Ned Lebow – constructivist, Cold War expert, author of Tragic Vision of Politics
 * Michael Leifer – international relations, South Asian Studies, London School of Economics
 * Noémi Lefebvre – French political scientist at the Instituts d'études politiques of Grenoble II
 * Margaret Levi – scholar of comparative political economy, labor politics, democratic theory, former American Political Science Association president
 * Carl Levy – Goldsmiths College, University of London
 * Robert C. Lieberman – scholar of American politics and provost of Johns Hopkins University
 * Arend Lijphart – originator of consociationalism
 * Fernando Limongi – professor in the São Paulo School of Economics at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas
 * Juan Linz – democracy specialist
 * Dan Lipinski – U.S. House of Representatives (IL-D, 3rd)
 * Seymour Martin Lipset – political theorist on democracy and development and parties; taught at Stanford University
 * Leslie Lipson – was scholar of comparative politics and democracy at UC Berkeley
 * Ramon Llull – discoverer of Condorcet Criterion and Borda Count
 * Claudia López Hernández – Colombian political scientist and politician who was a Senator of the Republic of Colombia
 * Theodore Lowi – major scholar of American politics at Cornell University
 * Ian Lustick – state territoriality ethnic conflict and computer modelling in political science; University of Pennsylvania

M

 * Mizanur Rahman Shelley – was a minister of the Government of Bangladesh, political analyst, political scientist and educationalist.
 * Niccolò Machiavelli – considered the originator of historically based political science; author of The Prince
 * Beatriz Magaloni – political scientist at Stanford University
 * Pia Mancini – political scientist, activist and technical project leader from Argentina
 * Jane Mansbridge – scholar of social movements, gender, and democratic engagement (Harvard University), former American Political Science Association president
 * Harvey C. Mansfield – political philosophy (Harvard University)
 * Zeev Maoz – Arab-Israeli Conflict and international relations expert
 * Jose M. Maravall – political economist
 * Helen Margetts – Formerly Director of the Oxford Internet Institute and current director of the Public Policy Programme at the Alan Turing Institute
 * David Marsh – influential British political scientist
 * Juraj Marusiak – Slovak expert for Central and Eastern Europe
 * Joanna Marszałek-Kawa – Polish lawyer, political scientist, professor and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
 * David R. Mayhew – U.S. legislative behavior and political parties expert
 * Amy Mazur – American political scientist and professor at Washington State University
 * John McCormick – specialist in European Union politics
 * Tara McCormack – lecturer in international relations at the University of Leicester
 * Rose McDermott – Professor of International Relations at Brown University
 * 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
 * J. Patrice McSherry – professor of political science at Long Island University
 * John Mearsheimer – international relations theorist and national security expert
 * Samuel Merrill III – voting behavior and party competition
 * George Michael – specialist in right-wing extremism
 * David Miller – political philosopher, specialized in theories of social justice
 * Charles Mills – political philosopher specialising in race relations; author of The Racial Contract
 * Sara McLaughlin Mitchell – American political scientist and the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Political Science at University of Iowa
 * Terry M. Moe – specialist in American politics
 * Malcolm Moos – former President of the University of Minnesota
 * Andrew Moravcsik – professor at Princeton University, liberal IR theorist, specialist on European Union politics
 * Hans Morgenthau – realist, international relations specialist
 * James D. Morrow – international relations expert and game theorist
 * Rebecca Morton – expert in American Politics, Political Economy, and Experimental Methods; professor at New York University
 * Gerardo L. Munck – comparative politics specialist, expert on democratization and Latin America
 * Michael Munger – trained as an economist, chair of political science at Duke University, running for governor of North Carolina as a Libertarian
 * Naomi Murakawa – American political scientist and associate professor of African-American studies at Princeton University
 * Mohammed Barkindo – He is Nigerian political scientists and petroleum economist. current secretary general of OPEC.
 * Clark A. Murdock – Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies
 * Diana Mutz – Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics
 * Harris Mylonas – Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and editor-in-chief of Nationalities Papers

N

 * Brigitte L. Nacos – professor in political science at Columbia University
 * Arthur Naftalin – specialist in American politics and former Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
 * Amrita Narlikar – President of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies and former director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Rising Powers
 * Antonio Negri
 * Franz Leopold Neumann – known for analysis of National Socialism
 * Kalypso Nicolaïdis – Professor of International Relations and director of the Center for International Studies at Oxford University
 * David Nolan – founder of the United States Libertarian Party
 * Douglass North – Nobel laureate
 * Pippa Norris – Harvard comparative political scientist
 * Philip Norton – British politics expert
 * Julie Novkov – American political scientist at SUNY Albany studying the history of American law, American political development, and subordinated identities
 * Joseph Nye – "soft power" international security specialist; Kennedy School Dean

O

 * Karen O'Conner – political science professor at American University in Washington, D.C. and the founder and director emerita of the Women & Politics Institute
 * Aloysius-Michaels Nnabugwu Okolie – professor at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka
 * Guillermo O'Donnell – democracy specialist
 * Brendan O'Leary – ethnic conflict specialist
 * Cornelius O'Leary – Irish historian and political scientist
 * Bertell Ollman – political theorist
 * 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
 * Norman Ornstein – American political theorist; American Enterprise Institute (AEI) resident scholar
 * Elinor Ostrom – specialist on common pool resources; winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics

P

 * Thomas Pangle – political theorist at University of Texas at Austin
 * Michael Parenti – political scientist and author
 * Vilfredo Pareto
 * W. Robert Parks – former President of Iowa State University
 * Gianfranco Pasquino – Italian political scientist; electoral systems, comparative politics
 * Tiago C. Peixoto – Brazilian political scientist in e-democracy and participatory democracy
 * Armand Peschard-Sverdrup – U.S.-Mexico binational relations expert
 * Sergei M. Plekhanov – Russia relations expert
 * Dianne Pinderhughes – scholar of race and gender inequality & public policy, former American Political Science Association president
 * Nelson W. Polsby – American politics scholar
 * Samuel L. Popkin – early expert on rational choice theory
 * Karl Popper – theorist, originated the open society theory
 * Emilia Justyna Powell – Polish-American political scientist known for her expertise on international dispute resolution, the Islamic legal tradition, Islamic international law, and Islamic constitutionalism
 * Jewel Prestage – first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in political science, former dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Southern University
 * 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

 * Douglas W. Rae – equality theorist
 * Vicky Randall – scholar of political science and gender
 * Mahesh Rangarajan – Indian political analyst and researcher with a focus on contemporary Indian politics and the politics of wildlife conservation in India
 * John Rawls – political philosopher
 * Gary D. Rawnsley FRSA – British political scientist whose research is located at the intersection of international relations and international communication.
 * Dan Reiter – political scientist, specialized on military conflicts and war; professor at Emory University; author of How Wars End
 * R. A. W. Rhodes – public administration scholar, pioneer of the study of policy networks in British government
 * Condoleezza Rice – former National Security Advisor; former 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
 * Patrick T. Riley – political theorist and Kant scholar
 * Pearl T. Robinson – American professor of political science at Tufts University
 * David Rohde – Congress scholar
 * Stein Rokkan – expert on political parties and movements, founder of the Institute for Comparative Politics
 * Richard Rose – American political scientist, Professor of Politics at the University of Aberdeen
 * Richard Rosecrance – international relations and political economy expert
 * Clinton Rossiter – American government and constitutional history theorist
 * Susanne Hoeber Rudolph – scholar of political economy and political economy, former American Political Science Association president
 * Irene S. Rubin – Emerita at Northern Illinois University focusing on interview methodology and public budgeting in American government
 * John Ruggie – international relations theorist, social constructivist

S

 * Larry Sabato – University of Virginia professor, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, and popular political analyst
 * Scott Sagan – Stanford professor and notable critic of deterrence theory
 * Slobodan Samardžić – research includes political ideas and institutions, federalism, constitutionalism, and European Union
 * David Samuels – comparativist scholar of Brazilian politics and political institutions
 * Eliz Sanasarian – professor of political science at the University of Southern California
 * Emanuele Santi – Italian development economist, political scientist and author
 * Virginia Sapiro – American political psychologist
 * Austin Sarat – public law specialist
 * Giovanni Sartori – comparativist, expert on constitutional theory 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
 * Steven Schier – specialist in American Politics
 * Warner R. Schilling – specialist in international relations and military technology
 * Kay Lehman Schlozman – J. Joseph Moakley Professor of political science at Boston College and an expert in American political participation and gender and politics
 * Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration Professor of International Relations in the Pardee School of Global Studies and professor of political science at Boston University
 * Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey – professor in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science
 * Victoria Schuck – Professor of Political Science who spent much of her career (1940–1976) at Mount Holyoke College
 * Ekaterina Schulmann – associate professor of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and legal specialist
 * Gesine Schwan – political scientist, president of the Viadrina European University, and nominated twice as a candidate for the federal presidential elections of Germany
 * James C. Scott – political economist, Southeast Asia area specialist
 * Mitchell A. Seligson – Centennial Professor of Political Science Vanderbilt University; founder of Latin American Public Opinion Project and AmericasBarometer
 * Donna Shalala – former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
 * Jim Sidanius – American political scientist
 * Matthew Soberg Shugart – scholar of constitutional design and electoral systems
 * Yekaterina Shulman – scholar specializing in lawmaking
 * Beth Simmons – international relations scholar focusing on human rights
 * Herbert A. Simon – Nobel Prize-winning professor at Carnegie Mellon; a founder of artificial intelligence research; received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago
 * Valeria Sinclair-Chapman – studies American political institutions, the representation of minority groups in the United States Congress, and minority political participation
 * Theda Skocpol – comparative sociologist; former president of American Political Science Association, Harvard University
 * Stephen Skowronek – presidency and American political development scholar (Yale University)
 * Anne-Marie Slaughter – scholar of international relations, former president of the American Society of International Law
 * Jean Edward Smith – political economist, biographer, international relations, constitutional law
 * Rogers Smith – Pulitzer Prize finalist, American politics expert at the University of Pennsylvania
 * Steven S. Smith – American politics, congressional politics, Russian politics; Director, Weidenbaum Center
 * Peverill Squire – Americanist
 * Allison Stanger – American political scientist and the Russell J. Leng '60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College
 * Michael Steed – British political scientist, developed the concept of "Steed swing" as distinct from "Butler swing"
 * Alfred Stepan – comparativist, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University
 * Zeev Sternhell – theorist, political historian of political ideology
 * John G. Stoessinger – international relations theorist, author of The Might of Nations: World Politics in our Time
 * Donald E. Stokes – former dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton; expert on elections
 * Susan Stokes – Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science department of the University of Chicago and the faculty director of the Chicago Center on Democracy
 * Herbert Storing – American politics expert
 * Susan Strange – British expert in international relations; taught at the London School of Economics
 * Dara Strolovitch – studies the politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the context of intersectional societal inequality
 * Carol Swain – Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University; expert on immigration and race
 * Stephen Szabo is an American political scientist and educator who specializes in foreign policy.
 * Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila a Nigerian political scientist, author of The Rise and Fall of Kano Peoples Party, Secretary-General People's Redemption Party 1980–1983, Campaign Manager of Nigerian People's Party –1983

T

 * Rein Taagepera – comparativist, expert on electoral systems and history of government
 * Colin Talbot – Chair of Government at the University of Manchester; adviser to various Parliamentary Committees of the United Kingdom
 * Marco Tarchi – professor at University of Florence, right-wing militant and creator of Nouvelle Droite
 * Katherine Tate – Professor of Political Science at Brown University
 * Merze Tate – international relations expert and first African-American woman to attend University of Oxford and receive a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University
 * Anthony Teasdale - specialist in European Union politics
 * Sally Terry – political science professor at Tufts University from 1975 until her retirement in 2002
 * Dennis Thompson – political theorist at Harvard University
 * Marianne Thyrring
 * J. Ann Tickner – feminist international relations theorist and current president of the International Studies Association (ISA)
 * Virginia Tilley – specialist on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * 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
 * Jeanne Theoharis – Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College.
 * Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay – Canadian political scientist, former senior academic administrator, and an expert on Kashmir and India-Pakistan
 * George Tsebelis – game theorist notable for his general theory of veto players and for describing the Robinson Crusoe fallacy
 * Jeffrey K. Tulis – professor at The University of Texas at Austin
 * Tijjani Muhammad Bande – Nigerian political scientist permanent representative of Nigeria to the UN and former president of UNGA

U

 * Patrick Utomi – political economist

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 who is a 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 America Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
 * Zhang Weiwei – Chinese political scientist
 * Ina Zhupa – Albanian political scientist who studies Democratization and Values of Albanian Society

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Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut, LLC is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain and international franchise founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas by Dan and Frank Carney. The chain, headquartered in Plano, Texas, operates 19,866 restaurants worldwide as of 2023.

While studying at Wichita State University, the Carneys opened their first location, which quickly expanded to six outlets within a year. The brand began franchising in 1959, and its distinctive building style was designed by Chicago architect George Lindstrom in 1963. Pizza Hut experienced significant growth, including the acquisition by PepsiCo in 1977, followed by a spin-off into Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., later renamed Yum! Brands in 2002, who are the current owners.

Pizza Hut introduced PizzaNet in 1994, an early internet ordering experiment, and continued innovation with offerings like stuffed crust pizza introduced in 1995. Pizza Hut has adapted its model to include various restaurant formats, including the family-style dine-in locations, carry-out, and hybrid locations. It has ventured into international markets, tailoring its menu to local tastes. The brand faced challenges, including the closure of numerous dine-in locations in the US and adjustments to its franchise operations. Despite these hurdles, Pizza Hut remains a significant player in the global fast-food industry, known for its innovative products and marketing strategies.

History
Pizza Hut was launched on May 31, 1958, by two brothers, Dan and Frank Carney, both Wichita State students, as a single location in Wichita, Kansas. Six months later they opened a second outlet, and within a year they were operating six locations.

One early employee was future Pro Football Hall of Fame head coach Bill Parcells, who had worked for the company while a college student and football player at Wichita State University. Parcells was considering a franchise for a career (as well as law school), but instead chose to enter coaching, eventually becoming a head coach in the National Football League.

The brothers began franchising in 1959. The iconic Pizza Hut building style was designed in 1963 by Chicago architect George Lindstrom and was implemented in 1969. PepsiCo acquired Pizza Hut in November 1977. On May 30, 1997, PepsiCo spun off Pizza Hut, along with Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken, into a new company named Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. The company assumed the name of Yum! Brands on May 22, 2002.

The first Pizza Hut restaurant east of the Mississippi River was opened in Athens, Ohio, in 1966 by Lawrence Berberick and Gary Meyers.

In August 1994, Pizza Hut and the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) announced, a pilot program in the Santa Cruz area that allowed consumers to use their own computer to order pizza delivery from a local Pizza Hut restaurant, with connection being made over the Internet to a central Pizza Hut server in Wichita, Kansas. The PizzaNet application software was developed by SCO's Professional Services group. PizzaNet was based on the first commercially licensed and bundled Internet operating system, SCO Global Access.

On March 31, 2011, Priszm, owner of Pizza Hut in Canada, went into bankruptcy protection in Ontario and British Columbia.

In 2015, the oldest continuously operating Pizza Hut, which was the restaurant located in the Aggieville District of Manhattan, closed.

The company announced a rebrand that began on November 19, 2014, in an effort to increase sales, which had dropped in the previous two years. The menu was expanded to introduce various items such as crust flavors and 11 new specialty pizzas, and the company's employee uniforms were redesigned. In 2017, Pizza Hut was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number 24 in the list of 200 Most Influential Brands in the World.

On June 25, 2019, Pizza Hut announced it was bringing back the logo and the red roof design that was used from 1976 until 1999.

On August 7, 2019, Pizza Hut announced its intention to close about 500 of its 7,496 dine-in restaurants in the US, by the middle of 2021.

On August 18, 2020, Pizza Hut announced it would be closing up to 300 restaurants after the bankruptcy of NPC International, one of its largest franchisees. In March 2021, Flynn Restaurant Group acquired NPC's 937 Pizza Hut locations.

Concept
Pizza Hut is split into several different restaurant formats: the original family-style dine-in locations; storefront delivery and carry-out locations; and hybrid locations that have carry-out, delivery, and dine-in options. Some full-size Pizza Hut locations have a lunch buffet, with "all-you-can-eat" pizza, salad, desserts, and breadsticks, and a pasta bar. Pizza Hut has other business concepts independent of the store type.

In 1975, Pizza Hut began testing concepts with Applegate's Landing. with restaurants that featured had Colonial-style exteriors and eclectic interiors that included a truck with a salad bar in the bed. The chain offered much of the same pizza and pasta dishes, with some additions like hamburgers and bread pudding. Applegate's Landing went defunct in the mid-1980s except for one location in McPherson, Kansas that closed in late 1995.

An upscale concept was unveiled in 2004, called "Pizza Hut Italian Bistro". At 50 U.S. locations, the Bistro is similar to a traditional Pizza Hut, but with a menu that included previously unseen items, such as penne pasta, chicken pomodoro, and toasted sandwiches. Instead of black, white, and red, Bistro locations feature a burgundy and tan motif. In some cases, Pizza Hut has replaced a red roof location with the new concept. Pizza Hut Express locations are fast food restaurants that offer a limited menu with many products not seen at a traditional Pizza Hut. These stores are often paired in a colocation with WingStreet in the US and Canada, or other sibling brands such as KFC or Taco Bell and found on college campuses, food courts, theme parks, bowling alleys, and within stores such as Target.

Vintage locations featuring the red roof, designed by architect Richard D. Burke, can be found in the United States and Canada; several exist in the UK, Australia, and Mexico. In his book Orange Roofs, Golden Arches, Phillip Langdon wrote that the Pizza Hut red roof architecture "is something of a strange object – considered outside the realm of significant architecture, yet swiftly reflecting shifts in popular taste and unquestionably making an impact on daily life. These buildings rarely show up in architectural journals, yet they have become some of the most numerous and conspicuous in the United States today."

In 2014, Curbed.com reported, "Despite Pizza Hut's decision to discontinue the form when they made the shift toward delivery, there were still 6,304 traditional units standing as of 2004, each with the shingled roofs and trapezoidal windows signifying equal parts suburban comfort and strip-mall anomie." This building style was common in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The name "red roof" is somewhat anachronistic now since many locations have brown roofs. Dozens of these restaurants have closed or been relocated or rebuilt.

Many of the older locations with the red roof design serve beer or have a full bar, music from a jukebox, and in some cases an arcade. In the mid-1980s, the company moved into other formats, including delivery or carryout and the fast food "Express" model.

In June 2024, some locations reportedly brought back the all you can eat lunch buffet.

Products
In North America, Pizza Hut has notably sold:
 * Pan pizza, baked in a pan with a crispy edge;
 * "Stuffed crust" pizza, with the outermost edge wrapped around a cylinder of mozzarella cheese;
 * "Hand-tossed", more like traditional pizzeria crusts;
 * "Thin 'N Crispy", a thin, crisp dough which was Pizza Hut's original style;
 * Dippin' Strips pizza, a pizza cut into small strips that can be dipped into a number of sauces;
 * The P'Zone, a calzone with a marinara dipping sauce that comes in plain, Supremo, Meaty, and pepperoni;
 * The Bigfoot pizza, its largest product;
 * The Priazzo, a pie like pizza stuffed with pizza ingredients.

The "stuffed crust" pizza was introduced on March 26, 1995. By the end of the year, it had become one of their most popular lines. Regional differences are seen in the products and bases. The company has localized to Southeast Asia with a baked rice dish called Curry Zazzle.

On May 9, 2008, Pizza Hut created "The Natural" pizza, which featured natural ingredients and was sold in Seattle, Denver and Dallas. This was discontinued on October 27, 2009, in the Dallas market.

Pizza Hut developed a pizza to be delivered to the International Space Station in 2001. It was vacuum-sealed and about 6 in (15 cm) in diameter to fit in the station's oven. It was launched on a Soyuz and eaten by Yuri Usachov in orbit.

In the 2010s, the chain saw a downturn in profits. In 2015, the franchise stated it would be pumping more capital into its London branches. Pizza Hut is installing cocktail bars in its London branches as part of a £60 million bid to win back "the Nando's generation".

In January 2019, Pizza Hut announced it had expanded beer delivery to 300 locations across the U.S., with plans to expand to 1,000 locations by the middle of the year.

In March 2019, Pizza Hut announced the return of the P'Zone after a hiatus of several years.

In March 2020, Pizza Hut Hong Kong announced that it had partnered with furniture retailer IKEA on a joint venture. IKEA launched a new side table called SÄVA, which was designed to resemble a pizza saver. The table would be boxed in packaging resembling a pizza box, and the building instructions included a suggestion to order a Swedish meatball pizza from Pizza Hut, which would contain the same meatballs served in IKEA restaurants. A 2021 menu addition, designed to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the introduction of stuffed crust pizza, was "nothing but the stuffed crust," a ring of dough filled with cheese.

WingStreet
WingStreet is the name used for Pizza Hut's chicken wing menu.

In 2003, Yum! launched WingStreet in combination with existing Pizza Hut franchises. The chain predicted aggressive growth, adding more than 4,000 locations by 2010. In 2012, Pizza Hut opened a standalone pilot store in Denton, Texas. The store was unsuccessful and closed the following year.

Restaurants with WingStreet sections on their menus sell breaded and traditional buffalo wings for take-out and delivery. Their sauces include original Buffalo (in mild, medium, and hot levels of spiciness), sweet chili, spicy garlic, honey barbecue, and garlic Parmesan, as well as cajun and lemon pepper dry rubs. They also offer sauce-free "naked" wings.

International
Pizza Hut's international presence under Yum! Brands includes:

 * Canada and Mexico in North America
 * Japan, India, Bangladesh,  Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Croatia, European Union, Qatar, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Myanmar, and Macau in Asia
 * Egypt

Pizza Hut's China operations are part of the Yum! spinoff Yum China. Pizza Hut was one of the first American franchises to open in Iraq.

China
In China, Pizza Hut used an altered business model, offering a fine-dining atmosphere with knives and forks and using an expanded menu catering to Chinese tastes. By 2008, Pizza Hut operated restaurants and delivery locations. That year, the company introduced "Pizza Hut Express", opening locations in Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou. The 160 restaurants were in 40 Chinese cities in 2005. As of 2015, Pizza Hut had 1,903 restaurants in China. As of the end of March 2024, Pizza Hut has over 3400 outlets in over 700 cities.

Savio S. Chan (陳少宏, Pinyin: Chén Shàohóng) and Michael Zakkour, authors of China's Super Consumers: What 1 Billion Customers Want and How to Sell it to Them, stated middle-class Chinese perceive Pizza Hut as "akin to fine dining", though Pizza Hut was "China's largest and most successful foreign casual-dining chain".

Australia
Pizza Hut expanded to Australia in 1970, opening its first dine-in restaurant in Belfield in April 1970. In 2016, private equity firm Allegro Funds and a local management team bought the master franchise agreement for Pizza Hut in Australia from Yum! Brands. In June 2023, Allegro sold Pizza Hut Australia to US franchise operator Flynn Restaurant Group. As of June 2023, there are about 260 Pizza Hut stores in Australia.

In May 2024, Australian franchisee Pizza Pan Group was penalized with a AU$2.5 million fine for spending 10 million marketing spam messages over four months in violation of Australian spam laws. It had been directed to report regularly to the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

Pakistan
Pizza Hut Pakistan is the Pakistani franchisee of Pizza Hut. It is owned by MCR (Pvt) Ltd and is headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan. The first outlet was opened in Karachi in 1993. Currently, Pizza Hut has a presence in 23 major cities.

Mongolia
"Tavan Bogd Foods Pizza" LLC officially opened Pizza Hut on July 14, 2014, in Mongolia. They currently work under three concepts: Restaurant, Delivery, and Express, and provide products and services in 13 areas.

Ethiopia
In 2018, Pizza Hut officially opened in Ethiopia.

United Kingdom
Pizza Hut first opened in the UK in 1973. In 2023, UK Pizza Hut restaurants added Beyond Meat Pepperoni to its menus with pizzas that include the Big New Yorker with vegan cheese and Beyond Pepperoni.

South Korea
As of August 2018, Pizza Hut has 324 franchises in South Korea since it opened its first store in 1985.

Former markets

 * Russia – Pizza Hut began operating in Russia in 1991, when food supplies dwindled during the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, prompting Russian President Boris Yeltsin to call Pizza Hut deliveries. Pizza Hut suspended operations in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Later some restaurants re-opened operations under rebranded new trademark PittsaN (ПиццаН).
 * Panama – In 2022, the Pizza Hut chain ceased its operations in Panamanian lands after re-reporting economic losses.

United States
Pizza Hut's first television commercial was produced in 1965 by Bob Walterscheidt for the Harry Crow agency in Wichita, and was entitled "Putt-Putt to the Pizza Hut". The ad looks just like an old movie and is set in fast motion. It features a man in a business suit and tie, played by Ron Williams, who was then a production manager for Wichita's ABC affiliate KAKE-TV, as he orders take-out, leaves his house, and gets into his 1965 Mustang JR to drive to Pizza Hut, where he is chased by a variety of townspeople, portrayed by neighborhood kids, Walterscheidt and his daughter, and various employees for Harry Crow and KAKE-TV. He goes inside Pizza Hut to pick up his pizza and drives home. People eat all the pizza before the man who ordered it can get any, which makes the man very upset, so he calls Pizza Hut again. The ad first aired on November 19, 1966, during halftime of the Notre Dame vs. Michigan State "Game of the Century", and dramatically increased sales for the franchise. "Putt-Putt to the Pizza Hut" ran on TV for eight years and was nominated for a Clio Award.

Until early 2007, Pizza Hut's main advertising slogan was "Gather 'round the good stuff". From 2008 to 2009, the advertising slogan was "Now You're Eating!" From 2009 to 2012, the advertising slogan was "Your Favorites. Your Pizza Hut" From 2012 to 2016, the advertising slogan was "Make it great", a variation of the 1987–1995 slogan "Makin' it great!". From 1995 to 1999, the slogan was "You'll love the stuff we're made of". The advertising slogan is currently "No one outpizzas the hut".

Pizza Hut does not have an official international mascot, but at one time, a series of commercials in the U.S. aired, titled "The Pizza Head Show". These commercials ran from 1991 to 1999 and was created by Walter Williams, creator of the Mr. Bill sketches from Saturday Night Live in the late 1970s – upon which the ad campaign was based. The ads featured a slice of pizza with a face made out of toppings called "Pizza Head". In the 1970s, Pizza Hut used the signature red roof with a jolly man named "Pizza Hut Pete". Pete was on the bags, cups, balloons, and hand puppets for the kids. In Australia during the mid to late 1990s, the advertising mascot was a delivery boy named Dougie, with boyish good looks, who upon delivering pizza to his father, would hear the catchphrase "Here's a tip: Be good to your mother". Adding to the impact of these advertisements, the role of Dougie was played by famous Australian soap opera and police drama actor Diarmid Heidenreich.

Pizza Hut sponsored the film Back to the Future Part II (1989) and offered a free pair of futuristic sunglasses, known as "Solar Shades", with the purchase of Pizza Hut pizza. Pizza Hut also engaged in product placement within the film, having a futuristic version of their logo with their trademarked red hut printed on the side of a mylar dehydrated pizza wrapper in the McFly family dinner scene, and appear on a storefront in Hill Valley in the year 2015.

The 1990 NES game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game came with a coupon for a free pizza. The game included Pizza Hut product placement in the form of background advertisements and pizza that would refill the character's life.

In 1995, Donald Trump and his ex-wife Ivana Trump appeared in a commercial. The last scene of the commercial showed Ivana asking for the last slice, to which Donald replied, "Actually, you're only entitled to half", a play on the couple's recent divorce.

In 1995, Ringo Starr appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial that teased to a Beatles reunion, but featured three members of The Monkees. A commercial with Rush Limbaugh dates from the same year, in which he boasts "nobody is more right than me," yet he states for the first time he will do something wrong, which was to participate in Pizza Hut's then "eating pizza crust first" campaign regarding their stuffed crust pizzas.

In 1999, the announcer says, "The best pizzas under one roof" in the Big New Yorker pizza commercial seen on the PlayStation Pizza Hut Demo Disc 1. Also, in 1999, the game Crazy Taxi for Sega Dreamcast featured Pizza Hut as one of the locations to which players were able to drive and drop off customers. However, in the game's 2010 re-release for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, all of the product placement, including the Pizza Hut locations, were removed and replaced with generic locations.

Early 2007 had Pizza Hut move into several more interactive ways of marketing to the consumer. Using mobile-phone SMS technology and their MyHut ordering site, they aired several television commercials (commencing just before the Super Bowl) containing hidden words that viewers could type into their phones to receive coupons. Other innovative efforts included their "MySpace Ted" campaign, which took advantage of the popularity of social networking, and the burgeoning user-submission marketing movement via their Vice President of Pizza contest.

United Kingdom
In 1996, as part of Pizza Hut's global advertising strategy using celebrities, Formula One driver Damon Hill and BBC motorsport commentator Murray Walker advertised the stuffed crust pizza, which parodies Walker's extravagant style.

Talk show host Jonathan Ross co-starred in an ad with American model Caprice Bourret. They advertised the new stuffed crust pizza, with Jonathan Ross saying "stuffed cwust" due to his rhotacism.

Following England's defeat to Germany on penalties in the semifinals of Euro '96, Gareth Southgate, Stuart Pearce, and Chris Waddle featured in an advertisement, which shows Southgate wearing a paper bag over his head in shame as his penalty miss allowed England to lose the shootout. Waddle and Pearce, who both missed in a shootout vs West Germany at World Cup '90, are ridiculing him, emphasizing the word "miss" at every opportunity. After Southgate finishes his pizza, he takes off his paper bag, heads for the door, and bangs his head against the wall. Pearce responds with, "this time he's hit the post".

Russia
Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a 1997 Pizza Hut commercial with his granddaughter Anastasia Virganskaya to raise money for the Perestroyka Archives. The ad "obviously exploited the shock value of having a former world leader appear... [and] played on the fact that Gorbachev was far more popular outside Russia than inside it". It was filmed on a multi-million budget with a cinematic quality, including mounting cameras on the Kremlin and shutting down Red Square to get the establishing shots of the square, and dialogue entirely in Russian with English subtitles, to show Pizza Hut as a global brand compared to its American rivals.

More recently, Pizza Hut has had various celebrity spokespeople, including Jessica Simpson, the Muppets, Damon Hill, and Murray Walker.

In 2000, Pizza Hut paid for their logo to appear on a Russian Proton rocket, which launched the Russian Zvezda module.

Pasta Hut
On April 1, 2008, Pizza Hut in America sent emails to customers advertising their pasta items. The email (and similar advertising on the company's website) stated: "Pasta so good, we changed our name to Pasta Hut!" The name change was a publicity stunt held on April Fools' Day, extending through the month of April, with the company's Dallas headquarters changing its exterior logo to Pasta Hut.

This name change was also used to promote the new Tuscani Pasta line and the new Pizza Hut dine-in menu. The first Pasta Hut advertisement shows the original Pizza Hut restaurant being imploded and recreated with a "Pasta Hut" sign.

A version of this stunt was re-created by Pizza Hut's UK operation later that year in October 2008, which included ten locations in London temporarily taking on new "Pasta Hut" signage. Pizza Hut UK's chief executive at the time has insisted that this was solely intended as a "PR exercise" and the chain never planned on permanently changing its name in the UK or elsewhere.

Sponsorships

 * In the early 1990s, as part of PepsiCo's sponsorship of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (and its former moniker, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour), Pizza Hut was included in the acknowledgment alongside Taco Bell and KFC, which PepsiCo owned at the time.
 * In 2000, Pizza Hut was a part-time sponsor of Galaxy Motorsports' #75 Ford in the then NASCAR Cup Series, driven by Wally Dallenbach Jr.
 * Pizza Hut was the shirt sponsor of English football club Fulham F.C. for the 2001–02 season
 * Terry Labonte drove selected events with Pizza Hut as the primary sponsor of his #44 car for Hendrick Motorsports in 2005. Brian Vickers also drove a Pizza Hut car in the NASCAR Busch Series for Hendrick.
 * Pizza Hut purchased the naming rights to Major League Soccer club FC Dallas' stadium, Pizza Hut Park, prior to its opening in 2005, which were allowed to expire in January 2012.
 * In October 2015, Pizza Hut signed sponsorship deals with the Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars, and American Airlines Center.
 * In February 2018, Pizza Hut signed a sponsorship deal to be the official pizza sponsor for the National Football League.
 * Pizza Hut sponsored the #14 Brad Jones Racing Holden ZB Commodore driven by Todd Hazelwood for both of the Darwin Triple Crown and Townsville 500 in 2021.
 * In March 2022, Pizza Hut signed a sponsorship deal to be the official Quick Service Restaurant for the Supercars Championship.

Book It!
Pizza Hut has sponsored the Book It! reading-incentive program since it started in January 1985. Students who read books according to the goal set by the classroom teacher, in any month from October through March, are rewarded with a Pizza Hut certificate good for a free, one-topping Personal Pan Pizza; and the classroom whose students read the most books is rewarded with a pizza party. Book It! was conceived in 1984 during a dinner with Art Gunther, President of Pizza Hut, and Bud Gates, SVP of Marketing at Pizza Hut, as a way to help Gunther's son read more.

The program has been criticized by some psychologists on the grounds it may lead to overjustification and reduce children's intrinsic interest in reading. Book It! was also criticized by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood in 2007 who described it as "one of corporate America's most insidious school-based brand promotions." A pamphlet produced by the group argued the program promoted junk food to a captive market, made teachers into promoters for Pizza Hut, and undermined parents by making visits to the chain an integral part of bringing up their children to be literate. However, a study of the program found participation in the program neither increased nor decreased reading motivation. The program's 25th anniversary was in 2010. The Book It! program in Australia ceased in 2002.

Criticism
In the United Kingdom, Pizza Hut was criticized in October 2007 for the high salt content of its meals, some of which were found to contain more than twice the daily recommended amount of salt for an adult. The toppings that consumers prefer, however (ham, sausage, bacon, etc.), naturally contain high levels of salt.

To meet the Food Standards Agency 2010 target for salt levels in foods, between 2008 and 2010, the company removed over 15% of salt across its menu.

In July 2014, delivery drivers in the United States filed a class-action lawsuit over Pizza Hut "paying delivery drivers net wages below minimum wage due to unreimbursed automobile expenses" in violation of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act. An attempt by Pizza Hut to have the case dismissed in November 2015 failed. In December 2016, the case, Linkovich v. Capital Pizza Huts, Inc., et al., was decided by arbitration, in which Pizza Hut paid damages.

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