Dr. Ryan Barilleaux
Department Profile
Teaching Interests:
- American Presidency
- American Government
- Political Thinking
- Political Careers
Research Interests:
- Presidential & Executive Politics
- American Politics
- Religion & Politics
The Unitary Executive and the Modern Presidency, (ed. with C.S. Kelley). Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, 2010 (in press).
Power and Prudence: The Presidency of George H.W. Bush. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, 2004. (with M. Rozell)
Presidential Frontiers: Underexplored Issues in White House Politics, (ed.). Praeger, Westport, CT, 1998.
Leadership and the Bush Presidency, (ed. with M. Stuckey). Praeger, Westport, CT, 1992.
The President as World Leader. St. Martins, New York, 1991. (with B. Kellerman)
The Post-Modern Presidency. Praeger, New York, 1988.
The President and Foreign Affairs. Praeger, New York, 1985.
"Presidential Conduct of Foreign Policy." Congress and the Presidency 15 (Spring 1988): 1-23.
"Venture Constitutionalism and the Enlargement of the Presidency." in Executing the Constitution: Placing the Presidency in the Constitutional System. Christopher S. Kelley (ed.). SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 2006.
"The Bush Foreign Policy Legacy." in The Bush Legacy. Gary Gregg, Mark Rozell, and Gleaves Whitney (eds.). University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2010 (in press). (with D. Zellers)
Professor Barilleaux is currently writing a book on how American presidents respond to the challenge of governing in difficult situations. This book, tentatively entitled Tough Times for the President, examines presidential leadership under conditions of political adversity. He is also writing several shorter works, on executive oversight of agency rulemaking, other forms of executive unilateralism, and the limits of contemporary academic political science.
Outstanding Teacher Award, Miami University Associated Student Government
Distinguished Service Award, Miami University DisAbilities Awareness Club
Outstanding Paper Award, Southwestern Political Science Association
Who's Who in America
Salvatori Fellow, Heritage Foundation
Phi Beta Kappa Association Award, University of Southwestern Louisiana
Outstanding Graduate, University of Southwestern Louisiana