Key Jr. (1957–1958)
R. Taylor Cole (1958–1959)
Carl B. Swisher (1959–1960)
Emmette Redford (1960–1961)
Charles S. Hyneman (1961–1962)
Carl Joachim Friedrich (1962–1963)
C. Herman Pritchett (1963–1964)
David Truman (1964–1965)
Gabriel Almond (1965–1966)
Robert A. Dahl (1966–1967)
Merle Fainsod (1967–1968)
David Easton (1968–1969)
Karl Deutsch (1969–1970)
Robert E. Lane (1970–1971)
Heinz Eulau (1971–1972)
Robert E. Ward (1972–1973)
Avery Leiserson (1973–1974)
J. Austin Ranney (1974–1975)
1975–2000
James MacGregor Burns (1975–1976)
Samuel Beer (1976–1977)
John Wahlke (1977–1978)
Leon Epstein (1978–1979)
Warren Miller (1979–1980)
Charles E. Lindblom (1980–1981)
Seymour Martin Lipset (1981–1982)
William H. Riker (1982–1983)
Philip Converse (1983–1984)
Richard Fenno (1984–1985)
Aaron Wildavsky (1985–1986)
Samuel P. Huntington (1986–1987)
Kenneth Waltz (1987–1988)
Lucian Pye (1988–1989)
Judith N. Shklar (1989–1990)
Theodore J. Lowi (1990–1991)
James Q. Wilson (1991–1992)
Lucius Barker (1992–1993)
Charles O. Jones (1993–1994)
Sidney Verba (1994–1995)
Arend Lijphart (1995–1996)
Elinor Ostrom (1996–1997)
M. Kent Jennings (1997–1998)
Matthew Holden (1998–1999)
Robert Keohane (1999–2000)
2000–present
Robert Jervis (2000–2001)
Robert D. Putnam (2001–2002)
Theda Skocpol (2002–2003)
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (2003–2004)
Margaret Levi (2004–2005)
Ira Katznelson (2005–2006)
Robert Axelrod (2006–2007)
Dianne Pinderhughes (2007–2008)
Peter J. Katzenstein (2008–2009)
Henry E. Brady (2009–2010)
Carole Pateman (2010–2011)
G. Bingham Powell (2011–2012)
Jane Mansbridge (2012–2013)
John Aldrich (2013–2014)
Rodney E. Hero (2014–2015)
Jennifer Hochschild (2015–2016)
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