Randall Ripley
Office: 2116 Derby Hall
154 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210
(o): (614) 292-4392
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email: ripley.1@osu.edu
Randall Ripley
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
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)
