Faculty Affiliate Dr. Sarah Bush

Dr. Sarah Bush is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Temple University. Prior to starting at Temple, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. She received her Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University in November 2011.
Dr. Bush conducts research on international relations, democracy promotion, non-state actors in world politics, gender and human rights policy, and Middle East politics. She is the author of a recent book, The Taming of Democracy Assistance: Why Democracy Promotion Does Not Confront Dictators (Cambridge University Press, 2015), that explores how and why the United States and other developed countries turned to democracy promotion at the end of the Cold War and what the impact of doing so has been.
See Dr. Bush's website and CV.
Email: sarah.bush@temple.edu
Recent Publications:
Dr. Bush conducts research on international relations, democracy promotion, non-state actors in world politics, gender and human rights policy, and Middle East politics. She is the author of a recent book, The Taming of Democracy Assistance: Why Democracy Promotion Does Not Confront Dictators (Cambridge University Press, 2015), that explores how and why the United States and other developed countries turned to democracy promotion at the end of the Cold War and what the impact of doing so has been.
See Dr. Bush's website and CV.
Email: sarah.bush@temple.edu
Recent Publications:
- The Taming of Democracy Assistance: Why Democracy Promotion Does Not Confront Dictators, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- “International Politics and the Spread of Quotas for Women in Legislatures.” International Organization vol. 65, no.1 (2011): 103-137.
- “Anti-Americanism, Authoritarian Regimes, and Attitudes about Women in Politics: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Jordan,” with Amaney Jamal. International Studies Quarterly vol. 59, no. 1 (2015): 34-45 .
- “When and Why is Civil Society Support ‘Made-in-America’? Delegation to Non-State Actors in American Democracy Promotion.” Review of International Organizations, pp. forthcoming.
- “The Effects of Authoritarian Iconography: An Experimental Test,” with Aaron Erlich, Lauren Prather, and Yael Zeira. Comparative Political Studies, pp. forthcoming.
- “Small Tribes, Big Gains: The Strategic Uses of Gender Quotas in the Middle East,” with Eleanor Gao. Comparative Politics, pp. forthcoming.