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- George Catlin - (1896–1979) was an English political scientist and philosopher. A strong proponent of Anglo-America cooperation, he worked for many years as a professor at Cornell University.
- Ira Carmen - Co-founder of the social science subdiscipline of genetics and politics.
- Edward Hallett Carr - Noted international relations theorist.
- Alfredo Castillero Hoyos - Democracy and Human Rights. Former member of the United Nations's Human Rights Committee.
- 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
- Stephen P. Cohen - Middle East specialist
- James Smoot Coleman, early Africanist, founded the UCLA African Studies Center
- Josep 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.
- Timothy E. Cook - politics and media
- 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"
- Philip Cowley - Author of Revolts and Rebellions.
- Ralph W. Conant - Author of The Prospects for Revolution and Toward a More Perfect Union: The Governance of Metropolitan America.
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