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