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Andrew E. Busch
Adjunct Fellow

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Andrew E. Busch is an Adjunct Fellow of the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs. In addition, he is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Claremont McKenna College, where he specializes in American government and politics.

Dr. Busch is the author of Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Freedom, released in August 2001 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. He has also authored or co-authored five other books on American politics, including The Perfect Tie: The True Story of the 2000 Presidential Election (co-authored with James W. Ceaser). He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in government from the University of Virginia and his B.A. in history and political science from the University of Colorado, Boulder.


Will 2008 be a Realigning Election?
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, April 2008)

Obama: Another McGovern or Another Carter?
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, April 2008)

Voters Face Challenges Making Vote Decision
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, January 2008)

Republican Race Open, But Not Likely to Stay That Way
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, December 2007)

Is McCain the Next Kerry?
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, November 2007)

Hillary the Vincible?
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, November 2007)

Republican Tournament: Will Sweet Six Be Down to Thankful Three by January?
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, November 2007)

Ukrainian Elections Turn the Wheel Again
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, October 2007)

Thompson and Reagan
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, September 2007)

Spending Battles Give Republicans an Opportunity, but Seizing It Will Not Be Easy
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, August 2007)

The Ukrainian Crisis in Perspective
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, June 2007)

A Complicated Victory
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, May 2007)

Which Models, and Which Precedents, Will Appear on Election Day?
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, November 2006)

Midterm Elections Present Opportunities and Dangers for Democrats
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, November 2006)

The Last Three Weeks: Localize or Nationalize?
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, October 2006)

1994 Republicans End Long Journey in the Wilderness
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, October 2006)

1978 GOP Sets Stage for Reagan
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, September 2006)

1974 Midterms Bolster Liberalism in Congress
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, August 2006)

1966 Midterm Foreshadows Republican Era
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, July 2006)

1958-1962 Midterms Pave Way for Great Society
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, July 2006)

1946 Midterm Gives GOP First Majority Since 1928 Elections, Helps Ensure Truman’s Reelection
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, June 2006)

The New Deal Comes to a Screeching Halt in 1938
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, May 2006)

1930 Midterms Heralded New Deal
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, April 2006)

Democrats Put Themselves on the Road to the White House in 1910
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, March 2006)

Midterm Elections Offer a Mixed Bag
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, March 2006)

Conservatives and Martin Luther King
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, January 2006)

Singles and Doubles
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, January 2006)

’05 Elections a Mixed Bag
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, November 2005)

Miers, Bush, and a Discourse of Constitutionalism
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, October 2005)

Terrorism and the "Katrina Option"
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, September 2005)

What’s Wrong With Progressivism?
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, August 2005)

Be Careful What You Wish For...
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, August 2005)

Time to Revisit the Vietnam Analogy
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, August 2005)

Shifting the Balance
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, July 2005)

Attention: Deficit Disorder
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, June 2005)

The Popes and Modern Liberalism
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, April 2005)

Reagan, Bush, and Taxes
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, April 2005)

A Few Modest Suggestions for Tax Reform
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, March 2005)

The "No" Party May Be Miscalculating on Social Security
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, March 2005)

Psychiatric Ward
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, February 2005)

Howard Dean and the Democrats
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, February 2005)

Democrats Are Blowing Their First Chance at Recovery
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, December 2004)

Europeans See Change, But Is It True?
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, November 2004)

Presidents and Mandates
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, November 2004)

The Campaign and the Duelfer Report
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, October 2004)

The Big Picture
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, October 2004)

Who Will Go Positive?
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, October 2004)

Kerry Hangs Hopes on Debates
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, September 2004)

Rather Be Fishin’
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, September 2004)

Kerry Faces Vexing Choice on Iraq Costs
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, September 2004)

Kerry’s Moment of Peril
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, August 2004)

Democrats Have Emptied Their Six-Shooter; Now What?
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, August 2004)

It Seems to Me I’ve Heard That Song Before
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, April 2004)

Super Tuesday Sets Bush-Kerry Race, Demonstrates Flaws of Nominating System
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, March 2004)

The Return of Ralph Nader
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, February 2004)

Game Over
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, February 2004)

Left and Lefter
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, February 2004)

Iowa Caucuses Point to Fluid Democrats, But Dean Can’t Be Counted Out
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, January 2004)

Will the Facts Catch Up With the Myth?
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, January 2004)

A Prescription for Trouble
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, November 2003)

Pre-Emptive Doctrine Difficult, But Not New
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, October 2003)

Dwight David Clark?: The General Enters the Fray
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, September 2003)

Howard Dean, the Non-Fluke
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, September 2003)

Judicialism’s Cost to the Republic
  by Andrew E. Busch (On Principle, September 2003)

Two Hundred and Twenty Seven Years Later, Declaration is Still Revered—and Threatened
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, July 2003)

What We Do Know in Iraq
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, July 2003)

Don’t Judge a Nation by Its Friends
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, May 2003)

Bush Redux?: Don’t Count on It
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, April 2003)

Disarming Iraq, or Disarming Iraqis?
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, April 2003)

Euro-Democrats Show Their Hand: It Plays Well in Paris, But What About Peoria?
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, March 2003)

A Matter of Judgment
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, February 2003)

Off to the Races
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, January 2003)

Miracle on Red Square
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, December 2002)

No Easy Way Out for Democrats’ Dilemma on National Security
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, December 2002)

Penalty for Excessive Celebration
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, November 2002)

Election Shocker a Prelude? Wait and See
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, November 2002)

Midterm Elections Coming Down to the Wire
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, September 2002)

Marx and Enron
  by Andrew E. busch (Editorial, August 2002)

Two Nations Under God
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, July 2002)

Gephardt Bets the Farm on Election Futures
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, July 2002)

The Incredible Shrinking Ex-President
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, April 2002)

Liberals Have Robin Hood All Wrong
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, April 2002)

Campaign Finance Reform: Look Before You Leap
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, February 2002)

Big Government and the Return of Public Confidence
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, December 2001)

September 11 and the Return to Reality
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, October 2001)

Osama bin Laden in the Manhattan Delta
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, October 2001)

Ronald Reagan and Our War Against Terrorism
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, October 2001)

Policymakers Face Economic Challenge: Can They Learn?
  by Andrew E. Busch (Editorial, September 2001)



 


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