Rate My Professor Brandon Rottinghaus

Rottinghaus has authored or co-authored numerous books, including Scandal: Why Politicians Survive Controversy in a Partisan Era (Columbia University Press, forthcoming November 2025), Rick Perry: A Political Life (University of Texas Press, 2024), Inside Texas Politics: Politics, Policy and Personality in the Lone Star State, Fourth Edition (Oxford University Press, 2024), The Dual Executive: Presidential Unilateral Power in a Separated and Shared Power System (with Michelle Belco, Stanford University Press, 2016), The Institutional Effects of Executive Scandal (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and The Provisional Pulpit: Modern Presidential Leadership of Public Opinion (Texas A&M University Press, 2010). His peer-reviewed publications include articles such as “Do Scandals Matter?” (Political Research Quarterly, 2023), “Presidential Pitches and White House Pressure” (Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2021), and “Presidential Greatness in a Polarized Era” (PS: Political Science & Politics, 2020). Among his honors are the University of Houston College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award (2024) and the Patrick J. Fett Award for the Best Paper on the Scientific Study of Congress and the Presidency (2011). Rottinghaus co-directs the Presidential Greatness Project, which surveys scholars on presidential rankings, co-hosts Party Politics on Houston Public Media, serves as a political analyst for KHOU 11 News, and hosts Texperts, a political primer on Houston Public Media. He held the Pauline Yelderman Chair at the University of Houston from 2018 to 2021.