Andrew E. Busch is a Professor and the Associate Director of the Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His teaching and research focuses on American political institutions, elections, and public policy. He is the author or co-author of more than three dozen scholarly chapters and articles as well as more than 20 books, including Horses in Midstream: U.S. Midterm Elections and Their Consequences, 1894-1998; Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Freedom; The Front-Loading Problem in Presidential Nominations; The Constitution on the Campaign Trail: The Surprising Political Career of America’s Founding Document; Truman’s Triumphs: The 1948 Election and the Making of Postwar America; and Divided We Stand: The 2020 Elections and American Politics.

Previously, he taught at the University of Denver and at Claremont McKenna College, where he served as associate dean of the faculty and director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government. In 2009-2010 he was Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, and from 2011 to 2021 was Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at CMC.