Schwarz (born October 6, 1939) is an American political scientist.
He graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A in 1961, received his Ph.D from Indiana University in 1967, and studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science and L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.
He was an economic adviser to Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana in 1963, completed work for his Ph.D in Belgium and Luxembourg in 1964-66, and then went on to teach at the University of Minnesota from 1966-1970 and the University of Arizona from 1970-2004.
In 2006, he became a distinguished senior fellow at Demos, a public policy research organization in New York City.