Howard Rosenthal (political scientist)

Howard Rosenthal
Born	(1939-03-04)March 4, 1939 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died	June 28, 2022(2022-06-28) (aged 83)
Occupation(s)	Professor, academic
Academic background
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Political Science
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University (1966−1993) Princeton University (1993−2005) New York University (2005−2022)
Main interests	Political economy, American politics, political methodology, comparative politics

Howard Lewis Rosenthal (March 4, 1939 – July, 28 2022) was an American political scientist who was professor of politics at New York University. He also taught at Carnegie-Mellon University and Princeton University, where he was the Roger Williams Straus professor of social sciences.

Rosenthal is known for developing the multidimensional scaling application NOMINATE along with Keith T. Poole, a tool used by political scientists to compare the relative ideologies of current and past members of Congress. He authored numerous books and journal articles, including Partisan Politics, Divided Government, and the Economy with Alberto Alesina and Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches with Nolan McCarty and Keith T. Poole.

His main areas of interest included the study of political economy, American politics, political methodology, and comparative politics.^[1]