Sandra Suarez 
Associate Professor
438 Gladfelter Hall
Phone: 215-204-1468
E-mail: suarez@temple.edu
Bio: Sandra L. Suárez (Ph.D., Yale University, 1994) is Associate Professor of Political Science and a Faculty Affiliate inWomen’s Studies and Latin American Studies. She specializesin the study of public policy in historical and comparative perspective. She teaches courses on the politics growth and inequality, comparative public policy, and interest groups. Currently, she is working on a number of research projects about women entrepreneurs in the developing world and theuses of new technologies by political parties in Spain. She has been awarded fellowships by the Ford Foundation, the Center for International Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School and the Institute for the Study of World Politics.
Representative Publications
Suárez, S. 2009. “Economic and Fertility Policies in an Era of Globalization: A Comparison of Ireland and Singapore.” New Global Studies (forthcoming).
“Mobile Democracy: Text Messages, Voter Turnout and the 2004 Spanish Elections” Representation.Vol. 42, Issue 2 (July 2006).
“Does English Rule? Language Instruction and Economic Growth Strategies in Singapore, Ireland, and Puerto Rico” Comparative Politics, vol. 37 no. 4 (July 2005).
“Explaining the Global Digital Divide: Economic, Political and Sociological Drivers of Cross-national Internet Use” Social Forces, vol. 94 (December 2005) (with Mauro F. Guillén).
“Political and Economic Motivations for Labor Control: A Comparison of Ireland, Puerto Rico, and Singapore.” Studies in Comparative International Development vol. 36 no. 2 (Summer 2001).
“Developing the Internet: Entrepreneurship and Public Policy in Ireland, Singapore, Argentina, and Spain” Telecommunications Policy vol. 25 no. 5 (2001) (with Mauro Guillen).
"Does Business Learn? Tax Breaks, Uncertainty, and Political Experience" (The University of Michigan Press, 2000) (Sample Chapter 1)
“Lessons Learned: Explaining the Political Behavior of Business.” Polity vol. 31 no. 1 (fall 1998): 161-186