John David Rausch Jr.

John David Rausch Jr., Ph.D., is the Teel Bivins professor of political science at West Texas A&M University where he teaches American political institutions, religion and politics as well as American national government and American state and local government courses. He is co-editor of a collection of essays examining the changes to state legislatures caused by legislative term limits in “The Test of Time: Coping with Legislative Term Limits” (2002). He also co-authored the Texas edition of an American government textbook, “Government in America: People, Politics, and Policy” in 2008. Rausch is a member of the American Political Science Association, the Southwestern Political Science Association, the Research Committee of Legislative Specialists and the Oklahoma Political Science Association.