Randall Ripley

Professor Emeritus of Political Science

• American Politics and Public Policy
• Canadian Politics

Professor Ripley conducts research and teaches in the general area of American politics and public policy, with an added interest in Canadian politics. He has authored or co-authored a number of articles and books on various aspects of congressional behavior, bureaucratic behavior, and policy-making in the United States. His books include Party Leaders in the House of Representatives; Congress, the Bureaucracy, and Public Policy; Congress: Process and Policy; Policy Implementation and Bureaucracy; Congress Resurgent: Foreign and Defense Policy on Capitol Hill; U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War; and, most recently, American Labor Unions in the Electoral Arena. He has published articles in many journals, including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Western Political Quarterly.

Selected Publications

2001. American Labor Unions in the Electoral Arena (Rowman and Littlefield). (C0-author with Herbert B. Asher, Eric S. Heberlig, and Karen C. Snyder)

1998. "Congress and Foreign Policy," in Herbert Weisberg and Samuel C. Patterson, eds., Great Theatre: The American Congress in the 1990s (Cambridge University Press).

1993. Congress Resurgent: Foreign and Defense Policy on Capitol Hill (University of Michigan Press). Edited with James M. Lindsay, and c0-author with Lindsay of two chapters.

1992. "Constituents' Evaluations of U.S. House Members." American Politics Quarterly 20:442-56. (with Samuel C. Patterson, Lynn M. Maurer, and Stephen V. Quinlan)

My Curriculum Vita (pdf)