William Chase Taubman (born November 13, 1941, in New York City) is an American political scientist.

He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and received a B.A.

He is currently Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College.

[1] Taubman is the son of Nora Stern, a teacher, and Howard Taubman, who was chief music critic and then chief theater critic for The New York Times in the 1950s and 60s.

His wife, Jane A. Taubman, was a professor of Russian, Emerita, at Amherst College.