Andrew Busch
Professor and Associate Director, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: American political institutions, elections, and public policy
Biography
Andrew E. Busch is Associate Director and Professor at the Institute of American Civics in the Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His teaching and research focus on American political institutions, elections, and public policy. He has authored, co-authored, or edited more than two dozen books on these topics, most recently The Comeback: The 2024 Elections and American Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025), Ronald Reagan and the Firing of the Air Traffic Controllers (University Press of Kansas, 2024), and The Elephant in the Room: Donald Trump and the Future of the Republican Party (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).
Previously, Busch served as Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College from 2005 to 2024, where he also held the roles of Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government, Chair of the Department of Government, and Associate Dean of the Faculty. He has also taught at the University of Denver and served as the Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.
Education
- B.A., Political Science and History, University of Colorado
- M.A., Government, University of Virginia
- Ph.D., Government, University of Virginia
Publications
Reagan and the Firing of the Air Traffic Controllers