Andrew Rudalevige

Andrew Rudalevige is associate professor of political
science at Dickinson College. He received his B.A. from the
University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard
University. His main research interests are in the behavior
and interaction of American political institutions, with a
special focus on the executive branch and public
administration. His first book, Managing the President's
Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy
Formulation, was published in 2002 by Princeton University
Press and won the 2003 Richard E. Neustadt Award as the
best political science book written on the presidency. A
second, on the "imperial presidency" after Watergate, will
be published in 2005 by the University of Michigan Press.
Major current projects seek to explore the role of
hierarchy in the informational economics of the Executive
Office of the President and the role of the Office of
Management and Budget in the presidential management of the
wider executive branch.

From 1989-94, Rudalevige served as chief of staff to a
member of the Massachusetts State Senate and then as an
elected member of the city council in his hometown of
Watertown. He is an avid fan of baseball and politics (and
the politics of baseball) and is indoctrinating his
children in the cult of the Red Sox Nation.