The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll Totally Explained

Everything about The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll totally explained

The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll is a list of the 100 most important living public intellectuals in the world which has been compiled in November 2005 by Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (US) on the basis of a reader's ballot comprising more than 20,000 votes.

Demographics

According to location of birth, roughly 40% came from USA and Canada, 25% from Europe and 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. This may be true in the present case, since the number of Iranian intellectuals represented in the list is above that of entire Latin America, Nigeria has almost the totality of votes in the entire Africa and France is underrepresented.

The list

The following are the names of the top 100 according to its classification:

Further Information

Get more info on 'The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll'.

External Link Exchanges

Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:

<a href="http://the_2005_global_intellectuals_poll.totallyexplained.com">The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll Totally Explained</a>

Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned.