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Stuart S. Nagel (August 29, 1934 – November 18, 2001) was an American academic. A Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, he is notable for having coined the terms "super-optimizing" and "win-win analysis" and advancing the boundaries of policy studies.

Nagel grew up in West Rogers Park, a neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Nagel attended Senn High School and Central YMCA High School in Chicago.

He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Northwestern University, receiving a law degree in 1958 and a Ph.D. in political science in 1961.

After Nagel's death at age 67, the Policy Studies Journal^[1] published, in 2003, a series of articles about Nagel's personal and academic life, entitled "Symposium in Honor of Stuart S. Nagel".^[2]

• List of Northwestern University alumni
• List of people from Chicago
• List of University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign people

• Crotty, William (August 2003). "Memorial to Stuart S. Nagel". Policy Studies Journal. 31 (3): 465–467. doi:10.1111/1541-0072.00035.
• Rich, Paul J. (2005). "Policy Studies and Stuart Nagel". Policy Studies Organization.
• Staff (Spring 2002). "In Memoriam". Northwestern (quarterly alumni magazine of Northwestern University). Retrieved August 25, 2012.