College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Political Science
Faculty and Staff
Professors
kennedy
Department of Political Science
The University of Houston
447 Philip Guthrie Hoffman Hall
Houston, TX 77204-3011
Tel: (713) 743-3890
Fax: (713) 743-3927
Ryan Kennedy
Assistant Professor
PGH 421
713-743-1663
rkennedy@uh.edu
Research Interests
Comparative political economy
Oil, Post-Communist, and Authoritarian politics
Democratization
Biographical Summary
Education
Ph.D., The Ohio State UniversityM.A., The Ohio State University
B.A., Truman State University
Selected Publications
Kennedy, Ryan. 2010. "A Quiet Revolution? Moldova's 2005 Parliamentary Elections and the Influence of the Colour Revolutions." In Donnacha O’Beachain and Abel Polese (eds.), The Colour Revolutions in the Former Soviet Republics. London: Routledge.
Kennedy, Ryan. 2010. "The Contradiction of Modernization: A Conditional Model of Endogenous Democratization." Journal of Politics, 72(3): 785-798.
Neblo, Michael A., Kevin M. Esterling, Ryan P. Kennedy, David M. Lazer, and Anand E. Sokhey. 2010. "Who Wants to Deliberate – and Why?" American Political Science Review, 104(3): 566-583.
Kennedy, Ryan. 2009. "Survival and Accountability: An Analysis of the Empirical Support for 'Selectorate Theory.'" International Studies Quarterly, 53(3): 695-714.