Susan E.Scarrow
Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
PGH 416
713-743-3915
sscarrow@uh.edu
Research Interests
European politics
Comparative politics
Comparative parties
Elections
Biographical Summary
Susan Scarrow holds a Moores University Professorship in the Department of Political Science. Her teaching and scholarship focus on representation and political participation in parliamentary democracies, including political party development, comparative political finance, and the spread of direct democracy. She co-leads the multi-national Political Party Database, an NSF-funded endeavor which currently encompasses over 240 parties and over 40 countries. She co-edited Organizing Political Parties: Representation, Participation and Power, a book presenting the first analyses of this project (Oxford University Press 2017).
Education
Ph.D., Yale University
M.A., Yale University
B.A., Oberlin College
Selected Publications