About

Ryan Kennedy is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at The Ohio State University. His areas of expertise include American Politics, International Relations, and Political Methodology. He is based in Derby Hall, Columbus, Ohio, and can be contacted via email at kennedy.310@osu.edu or by phone at (614) 292-2880. His professional focus encompasses research in political science with a particular emphasis on methodologies and topics within American politics and international relations.

Research topics

• Political science
• Medicine
• Political economy
• Process management
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Far fewer Americans support political violence than recent polls suggest

  2025-10-13

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• UTILIZING A HEALTH BEHAVIOR APPROACH TO ENCOURAGE ORGAN DONATION IN LATIN AMERICA: INSIGHTS FROM A CASE STUDY IN CHILE

  Journal Of Healthcare In Developing Countries · 2023-01-01

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  Organ transplantation presents a promising opportunity to enhance quality of life and extend life expectancy in patients with end-stage chronic organ failure. Although the societal benefits of transplantation are clear, the shortage of organs donated in Latin America poses a significant barrier to accessing this life-saving treatment, resulting in high waitlist mortality rates and prolonged time on the waitlist. To address the problem of organ donation hesitancy, we thoroughly analyzed the behavioral factors by applying concepts from the Socioecological Model, the PRECEDE/PROCEDE framework, and Health Behavior Theories. We identified various personal, interpersonal, and community factors that may explain low donation rates and hinder the effectiveness of current strategies, highlighting the lack of information, the spread of myths about donation, the emotional burden for families, and the lack of sufficient human and technical resources. We propose a 10-step evidence-based intervention recommendation that involves focusing on increasing donation rates in the population, improving knowledge about donation and its process, preparing health professionals, developing strategies to promote donation with a focus on the young adult population, implementing specialized teams in transplants and the massification of preservation technologies. In summary, developing countries or countries with low organ donation rates must design evidence-based public policies. This article provides readily accessible information for the public, decision makers and relevant stakeholders.

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• The Future of Dentistry: How AI is Transforming Dental Practices.

  PubMed · 2021-01-01 · 5 citations

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  Artificial Intelligence (AI) builds upon the digital tools the dental profession has already adopted. It promises to transform the patient journey outlined above and support the quest of the dental community to improve oral health. In this review, we will detail how AI is used today in the clinic to improve patient care and experience. The review will start with the diagnostic capabilities of AI and then move to how it can be used to support treatment planning and patient communication. It will end with a discussion of how AI quantification helps dentists monitor longitudinal outcomes for patients and across the practice.

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• AI-Driven Growth of DSOs.

  PubMed · 2021-03-01

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  DSOs have been at the forefront of adopting technology that demonstrates value-add to their businesses. Hence, DSOs have been quick to identify artificial intelligence (AI) as a transformative means to support their business and clinical processes to benefit patient care. Specifically, AI can unlock clinical insights to inform practice affiliation and post-affiliation onboarding. Next, it can help support a standard of care across practices for compliance. And finally, AI technology can improve practice performance through the use of visualization tools to support dentists with patient treatment discussions and professional development of associates.

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• LIFTING THE CURSE: DISTRIBUTION AND POWER IN PETRO-STATES

  OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network) · 2008-06-25 · 1 citations

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  While the empirical correlation between fuel exports and authoritarianism has become conventional wisdom, influencing academics and policy-makers, the answer for why fuel exporters tend to be more authoritarian has remained elusive.This study proposes a model based on the increased importance of government decision-making in determining the distribution of economic goods in societies that are dependent on fuel exports.These increases in government distribution, as a result of fuel development revenues primarily accruing to the state, take on three forms: direct payments and subsidization, government ownership of industry, and a more arbitrary enforcement of property rights.Countries are affected differently, dependent upon both their level of dependence and the size of revenues garnered from fuel exports.In countries with high per-capita fuel export income, fuel revenues are stabilizing for authoritarian regimes, as they provide the resources for maintaining support.In countries which are heavily dependent on fuel exports in the economy, but with a relatively low per-capita income from those exports, the increased importance of distribution in the economy results in greater instability in democratic regimes, as it increases the temptation for both government and opposition parties to lock in their share of relatively scarce resources through exclusionary politics.iii Utilizing a dataset covering 166 countries from 1965 to 2001, I demonstrate that there is a general correlation between fuel export dependence and the importance of government distribution.I also find that income from fuel exports is generally stabilizing, especially for authoritarian regimes, while fuel dependence is destabilizing, especially for democracies.In addition, the same patterns of accumulation that fuel government distribution and resource competition, also promote incentives towards under-provision of public goods.This study demonstrates that fuel exporting states tend to have worse socio-economic performance than would be expected from their level of income.Finally, this study uses an in-depth case comparison of politics in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova to demonstrate the causal mechanisms, and to test the dynamics of the model.Based on these findings, policy recommendations are made for methods of distribution that produce incentives more consistent with democratic governance.

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• Fragments of Economic Accountability and Trade Policy

  Foreign Policy Analysis · 2007-03-01 · 14 citations

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  While there has been a prodigious amount of literature on trade policy written in the past two decades, very little of that literature has dealt with countries in economic transition or nondemocratic regimes. There has also been a lack of work dealing with state interests in trade policy beyond realpolitik discussions of national security. This article seeks to fill some of these gaps through a study of two samples: one of liberalization in 25 post-Communist countries between the years 1991 and 1999 and the other of 124 countries from around the world in 1997. The study concludes that a key element in the choice between free trade and protectionism is the level of “fragmentation of economic accountability.” Such fragmentation consists of two major components: (1) the existence of a strong capitalist class that is independent of the government; and (2) the dispersion of political power among actors both inside and outside the government. Where the government is more accountable to a wide range of interests, policies are more likely to be aligned with market mechanisms, encouraging the adoption of reforms, including the liberalization of trade policy. This article builds on the conclusions of Frye and Mansfield in several ways: (1) it embeds political fragmentation into a larger theoretical framework of economic accountability of government institutions; (2) it introduces the importance of state ownership in shaping government interests; (3) it introduces an idea of social, not just institutional, accountability; and (4) it proposes a statist view of trade policy that is lacking in the present literature.

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• A Colorless Election: The 2005 Presidential Election in Kazakhstan, and What It Means for the Future of the Opposition

  Problems of Post-Communism · 2006-12-01 · 9 citations

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  Abstract The most surprising result of the presidential election in Kazakhstan was not Nazarbayev’s victory, but the weakness of the opposition.

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• Are performers special patients?

  PubMed · 1994-05-01

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Frequent coauthors

• Alan Carrington

  15 shared

• Chris A. Mayhew

  Universität Innsbruck

  13 shared

• Terry A. Miller

  13 shared

• Richard P. Tuckett

  University of Birmingham

  9 shared

• R. Y. L. Chim

  University of Birmingham

  7 shared

• G. K. Jarvis

  University of Birmingham

  7 shared

• Barry Kirwan

  7 shared

• Yen‐Chu Hsu

  6 shared