Susan Scarrow, Ph.D.

Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
Moores Professor, Department of Political Science
713.743.3915
402 Agnes Arnold Hall
sscarrow@central.uh.edu 

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 analysis of this project (Oxford University Press, 2017).