Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll

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Some of the public intellectuals ranked in the 2005 Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll. From left to right, top to bottom: Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, Václav Havel, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Paul Krugman.

The Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll was conducted in November 2005 and June 2008 by Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (US) on the basis of responding readers' ballot. The objective was to determine the 100 most important public intellectuals that are still alive and active in public life. As with many similar polls, little or no effort was expended to prevent people voting more than once.

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The 2005 List

Demographics

According to location of birth, roughly 40% came from USA and Canada, 25% from Europe (including Russia), 22% from Middle and Far East. The other locations received less than 5% -Latin America with 4 and Africa and Australia with 3. Only 8% are women.

Criticisms

As it happens with many free votes over the Internet, the poll may be a victim of organized voting campaigns and biases introduced by the nationality and language of the organizer. Nigeria has almost the totality of votes in the entire Africa and France is underrepresented.^[1]

The 2008 List

References

^ Global public intellectuals poll November 2005, Prospect Magazine, No. 116

External links

- The Intellectuals polls and related articles on Prospect's website
- The Global Intellectuals Poll. Prospect Magazine, November 2005.
Who are the world's leading public intellectuals? - Copy of Prospect/FP 2005 list
Call for votes, Results - 2005 Prospect/FP vote
- The 2008 Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll. Voting page and unsorted results, Prospect/FP June 2008.