Prof. Andrew Rudalevige

Dept. of Political Science
Dickinson College
Curriculum Vitae

I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and also teach in the college's Law and Policy program. During the academic year 2004-05 I held a fellowship as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

I received my B.A. in 1989 from the University of Chicago. From 1989-96 I worked in state and local politics -- as a staffer in the Massachusetts Senate and as an elected Town Councillor in my hometown of Watertown, Massachusetts.  On both levels I dealt with issues ranging from zoning to school construction to budget formulation, and was involved in numerous campaigns.  

Returning to academe, I received my M.A. and Ph.D. in 1997 and 2000, respectively, from Harvard University's Department of Government.  From 1996 to 1999, I served as Assistant Head Tutor in the undergraduate tutorial office for the Harvard Government Department and from 1997 to 2000 as Assistant Senior Tutor in Harvard's best undergraduate residence, Lowell House. In 2004-05, I was a visiting scholar at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. From 2007-09 I directed Dickinson's study abroad humanities program based in London and at the School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. (Go Canaries!)

My first book, Managing the President's Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formulation, examines the formulation and success of presidents' legislative programs in the postwar era from an informational transaction costs vantage. It was published by Princeton University Press and was awarded the American Political Science Association's Neustadt Prize as best book on the presidency published in 2002. The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate, published by the University of Michigan Press in 2005 (paperback ed., 2006) examines the failure of the post-Watergate reforms to rein in presidential authority. In 2007 I co-edited (with Bert Rockman and Colin Campbell) a volume of essays concerning The George W. Bush Legacy (CQ Press).

For descriptions of and links to this and other research, published and ongoing, please see here.

For a full C.V., see here.   Or you can skip to the heart of my psyche at the homepage of the Boston Red Sox , where we never again have to wait for next year.  Yankees fans are referred elsewhere.)