Sarah Bush – The Conversation

People fill out their ballots during the early voting period in Cutler Bay, Fla., on Oct. 27, 2024. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

November 1, 2024

International election monitors can help boost people’s trust in the electoral process − but not all work the same way

Sarah Bush, University of Pennsylvania and Lauren Prather, University of California, San Diego

While the US supports nonpartisan election observers in other countries, the practice has a low profile in this country.

Election workers sort ballots at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center on Nov. 9, 2022, in Phoenix. John Moore/Getty Images

December 1, 2022

Healthy democracy requires trust – these 3 things could start to restore voters’ declining faith in US elections

Sarah Bush, Yale University and Lauren Prather, University of California, San Diego

Despite a midterm election largely free of controversy over its legitimacy, a large percentage of Americans distrust elections. And that’s dangerous for democracy.

The government-funded International Republican Institute, a nonprofit, supports democratic efforts like this voter education campaign in Burma. International Republican Institute

April 10, 2017

What Trump’s foreign aid cuts would mean for global democracy

Sarah Bush, Temple University

U.S. democracy assistance is not perfect. But drastic cuts to that slice of the federal budget would sever a lifeline to pro-democracy activists around the world.