Andrew Rudalevige

Andrew Rudalevige grew up in the Boston suburbs, where he learned to love the ocean, the T, and, at great cost to his emotional equilibrium, the Red Sox. He went to Watertown High School and then to the University of Chicago. After graduation he worked in the Massachusetts State Senate and on political campaigns, spending a term himself on the Watertown Town Council, before going back to do graduate work in political science at Harvard University.

After receiving his PhD in 2000, he taught at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In the fall of 2012 he joined the faculty of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he is Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government. In 2023-24 he is a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is affiliated with the Centre for U.S. Politics at University College London.

Rudalevige has served as a fellow at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and as director of Dickinson's humanities study abroad program in London and Norwich, England, as well as a visiting professor at the University of East Anglia. In fall 2011 he taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques at the University of Lyon, France. He headed the Presidents and Executive Politics section of the American Political Science Association in 2016-17.

His current research & writing projects address various aspects of the president's role as "chief executive" and their management of the executive branch. His most recent book is on how presidents use the bureaucracy (and vice versa) in the formulation of executive orders. Other projects -- on the history of the Office of Management and Budget, on the power of the presidency in the administrative state, and on political aspects of the Reagan presidency -- are in progress.