Biography
Professor Charles Barrilleaux taught at FSU from 1989 to 2023.
Professor Barrilleaux was the LeRoy Collins Professor of Political Science. His research and teaching focus on public policy, health policy and politics, as well as state and local politics. He is the coauthor of Democratic Policymaking (Cambridge University Press) and has authored research articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and numerous other scholarly journals and volumes. In 2022, the American Political Science Association’s State Politics and Policy Section awarded Professor Barrilleaux its Career Achievement Award.
Professor Barrilleaux served as chair of the department from 2014-2020. He was President of the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association from 2015-2017. He received is Ph.D. from State University of New York at Binghamton.
Selected Publications
Barrilleaux, C. and C. Rainey. 2014. “The Politics of Need: Examining Governors’ Decisions to Oppose the Medicaid ‘Obamacare’ Expansion.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1532440014561644
Barrilleaux, C. Reenock and M. Souva. 2017. Democratic Policymaking. Cambridge. https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/american-government-politics-and-policy/democratic-policymaking-analytic-approach?format=HB&isbn=9780521192873
Swanson, J. and C. Barrilleaux. 2018. “State Government Preemption of Local Government Decisions Through the State Courts.” Urban Affairs. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1078087418783273
