Noam Lupu Vanderbilt University Department of Political Science Commons Center, PMB 0505 230 Appleton Place Nashville, TN 37203
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Academic Appointments Vanderbilt University Associate Professor of Political Science, 2016–present Associate Director, Latin American Public Opinion Project, 2016–present Faculty Affiliate, Center for Latin American Studies Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Univerisdad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina), Visiting Professor, 2015–present University of Wisconsin-Madison, Assistant Professor of Political Science, 2013–2016 Juan March Institute (Spain), Junior Research Fellow, 2012–2013 University of Notre Dame, Visiting Fellow, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Fall 2011
Education Ph.D. Politics, Princeton University, 2011 M.A. Politics, Princeton University, 2008 M.A. Social Science, University of Chicago, 2005 B.A. Political Science and History (Honors), Columbia University, 2002
Publications Books Party Brands in Crisis: Partisanship, Brand Dilution, and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Reviewed in Government and Opposition and Perspectives on Politics
Edited Volumes Political Parties and Uncertainty in Developing Democracies (co-edited with Rachel Beatty Riedl), special issue of Comparative Political Studies 46(11), 2013.
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Articles “Advances in Survey Methods for the Developing World” (with Kristin Michelitch), Annual Review of Political Science 21 (forthcoming). “The Legacy of Political Violence across Generations” (with Leonid Peisakhin), American Journal of Political Science 61(4): 836–851 (2017). “A New Measure of Congruence: The Earth Mover’s Distance” (with Lucía Selios and Zach Warner), Political Analysis 25(1): 95–113 (2017). “Do Voters Dislike Working-Class Candidates? Voter Biases and the Descriptive Underrepresentation of the Working Class” (with Nicholas Carnes), American Political Science Review 110(4): 832–844 (2016). “The End of the Kirchner Era,” Journal of Democracy 27(2): 35–49 (2016). “What Good is a College Degree? Education and Leader Quality Reconsidered” (with Nicholas Carnes), Journal of Politics 78(1): 35–49 (2016). “Party Polarization and Mass Partisanship: A Comparative Perspective,” Political Behavior 37(2): 331– 356 (2015). Winner of the 2015 GESIS Klingemann Prize, Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
“Rethinking the Comparative Perspective on Class and Representation: Evidence from Latin America” (with Nicholas Carnes), American Journal of Political Science 59(1): 1–18 (2015). Winner of the 2013 Sage Paper Award, Comparative Politics section of the American Political Science Association
“Brand Dilution and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America,” World Politics 66(4): 561–602 (2014). Reprinted in Spanish as “La dilución de marca y el colapso de los partidos políticos en América Latina,” in Representación política en América Latina: Partidos políticos, elecciones y reglas, ed. Fernando Tuesta Soldevilla, Lima: Jurado Nacional Electoral, pp. 33–71 (2016). Winner of the 2016 Jack Walker Award, Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2015 Alexander L. George Article Award, Qualitative and Multi-Method Research section of the American Political Science Association
“Political Parties and Uncertainty in Developing Democracies” (with Rachel Beatty Riedl), Comparative Political Studies 46(11): 1339–1365 (2013). “Party Brands and Partisanship: Theory with Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Argentina,” American Journal of Political Science 57(1): 49–64 (2013). Winner of the 2012 Best Paper Award, Political Institutions section of the Latin American Studies Association
“The Structure of Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution” (with Jonas Pontusson), American Political Science Review 105(2): 316–336 (2011). Honorable Mention, 2011 Sage Paper Award, Comparative Politics section of the American Political Science Association
“Who Votes for chavismo? Class Voting in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela,” Latin American Research Review 45(1): 7–32 (2010). “Democracy, Interrupted: Regime Change and Partisanship in Twentieth-Century Argentina” (with Susan C. Stokes), Electoral Studies 29(1): 91–104 (2010).
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“The Social Bases of Political Parties in Argentina, 1912-2003” (with Susan C. Stokes), Latin American Research Review 44(1): 58–87 (2009). Reprinted in Spanish as “Las bases sociales de los partidos políticos en Argentina, 1912-2003,” Desarrollo Económico 48(192): 515–542 (2009).
“Towards a New Articulation of Alternative Development: Lessons from Coca Supply Reduction in Bolivia,” Development Policy Review 22(4): 405–421 (2004). “Memory Vanished, Absent, and Confined: The Countermemorial Project in 1980s and 1990s Germany,” History & Memory 15(2): 130–164 (2003).
Book Chapters “Party Brands, Partisan Erosion, and Party Breakdown,” in Latin American Party Systems: Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse, edited by Scott Mainwaring. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 359–379 (2018). “Mass-Elite Congruence and Representation in Argentina” (with Zach Warner), in Malaise in Representation in Latin American Countries: Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, edited by Alfredo Joignant, Mauricio Morales, and Claudio Fuentes. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 281–302 (2017). “Building Party Brands in Argentina and Brazil,” in Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America, edited by Jorge Domínguez, Steven Levitsky, James Loxton, and Brandon Van Dyck. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 76–99 (2016). “Partisanship in Latin America,” in The Latin American Voter: Pursuing Representation and Accountability in Challenging Contexts, edited by Ryan E. Carlin, Matthew M. Singer, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 226–245 (2015). “Political Parties and Party Systems,” in Routledge Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions, edited by Jennifer Gandhi and Rubén Ruiz-Rufino. London: Routledge, pp. 128–144 (2015).
Publications in Spanish “Nacionalización e institucionalización de partidos en la Argentina del siglo XX” [Nationalization and Party Institutionalization in Twentieth-Century Argentina], in Sistemas de partidos en América Latina: Causas y consecuencias de su equilibrio inestable, ed. Mariano Torcal, Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, pp. 183–202 (2015).
Survey Studies 2015 Argentine Panel Election Study (with Carlos Gervasoni, Virginia Oliveros, and Luis Schiumerini).
Notes “Class and Representation in Latin America,” Swiss Political Science Review 21(2): 229–236 (2015). “The 2011 general elections in Peru,” Electoral Studies 31(3): 621–624 (2012). “The 2009 legislative elections in Argentina,” Electoral Studies 29(1): 174–177 (2010).
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Book Reviews Review of Masket, Seth E., The Inevitable Party: Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How they Weaken Democracy, Oxford University Press, Perspectives on Politics 15(3): 836–837 (2017). Review of Weitz-Shapiro, Rebecca, Curbing Clientelism in Argentina: Politics, Poverty, and Social Policy, Cambridge University Press, Latin American Politics and Society 57(3): 163–166 (2015). Review of Moser, Robert G. and Ethan Scheiner, Electoral Systems and Political Context: How the Effects of Rules Vary Across New and Established Democracies, Cambridge University Press, Political Science Quarterly 128(4): 794–795 (2013). Review of Kitschelt, Herbert, Kirk Hawkins, Juan Pablo Luna, Guillermo Rosas, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, Latin American Party Systems, Cambridge University Press, Comparative Political Studies 44(12): 1700–1703 (2011).
Research Reports The Effect of Corruption on Political Behavior in the Peruvian Amazon: Impact Evaluation of Informational Campaigns to Increase Awareness of Corruption in Politics. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Agency for International Development, 2017. The Political Culture of Democracy in the Americas, 2016/17: A Comparative Study of Governance and Democracy (co-edited with Mollie J. Cohen and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister). Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University, 2017. “Corruption in the Americas,” in The Political Culture of Democracy in the Americas, 2016/17: A Comparative Study of Governance and Democracy, edited by Mollie J. Cohen, Noam Lupu, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University, 2017. “European Political Parties in the Wake of Crisis: Lessons from Latin America,” APSA-CP Newsletter, Fall 2013, pp. 7–8. “How Government by the Privileged Distorts Democracies” (with Nicholas Carnes), Key Findings, Scholars Strategy Network, July 2013.
Popular Press “Did Maduro’s party really dominate Sunday’s election in Venezuela? These polls should make you skeptical.” (with Elizabeth J. Zechmeister), Monkey Cage blog at Washington Post, October 20, 2017. “Why are Crimean Tatars so hostile to Russia?” (with Leonid Peisakhin), Monkey Cage blog at Washington Post, September 5, 2017. “It’s time to bust the myth: Most Trump voters were not working class” (with Nicholas Carnes), Monkey Cage blog at Washington Post, June 5, 2017. “The rich get elected – but it’s not because voters necessarily prefer them” (with Nicholas Carnes), Democratic Audit UK, February 22, 2016. “Voters actually don’t prefer wealthy politicians” (with Nicholas Carnes), Monkey Cage blog at Washington Post, December 6, 2016. “Why We Fell Behind,” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, May 16, 2016.
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“Why Trump’s appeal is wider than you might think” (with Nicholas Carnes), MSNBC.com, April 8, 2016. “No matter what happens in Sunday’s election, Argentina will be governed by the rich. Here’s why that matters,” Monkey Cage blog at Washington Post, November 20, 2015. “Scott Walker didn’t finish college. Would that make him a bad president?” (with Nicholas Carnes), Politico, July 8, 2015. “The rich are running Latin America – and why that matters” (with Nicholas Carnes), Monkey Cage blog at Washington Post, April 8, 2014. “Cómo afecta el gobierno de los privilegiados a la democracia?” (with Nicholas Carnes), Condistintosacentos, September 15, 2013.
Research in Progress Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies: Argentina in Comparative Perspective (volume co-edited with Virginia Oliveros and Luis Schiumerini). Revise and resubmit. “Toward a Theory of Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies” (with Virginia Oliveros and Luis Schiumerini), chapter prepared for Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies: Argentina in Comparative Perspective, edited by Noam Lupu, Virginia Oliveros, and Luis Schiumerini. Revise and resubmit. “Why Does Wealth Affect Vote Choice?” chapter prepared for Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies: Argentina in Comparative Perspective, edited by Noam Lupu, Virginia Oliveros, and Luis Schiumerini. Revise and resubmit. “Blinded by Wealth? What Voters Think About the Descriptive Underrepresentation of the Working Class” (with Nicholas Carnes). Under review. “Affluence and Congruence: Unequal Representation Around the World” (with Zach Warner). Under review. “Maximizing Benefits from Survey-Based Research” (with Elizabeth J. Zechmeister). Under review. “Oil Windfalls and a Conditional Political Resource Curse: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Brazil” (with Rikhil Bhavnani). “The Structure of Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution” (with Jonas Pontusson). “Party Stability and Vote Choice in Hard Times: Evidence from Post-Crisis Elections in Latin America.” “When Do Voters Sanction Corrupt Politicians?” (with Marko Kla˘snja and Joshua Tucker). “Campaigns, Learning, and Political Knowledge” (with Luis Schiumerini). Why the Rich Govern: Elections and Biased Representation in the World’s Democracies (with Nicholas Carnes). Memory and Identity: Legacies of Political Violence Across Generations (with Leonid Peisakhin).
Dormant “Development, Democratization, and Democratic Deepening” (with Kanta Murali). “Electoral Rules, Income Inequality, and the Politics of Redistribution” (with Jonas Pontusson).
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Invited Talks Aarhus, Denmark (2017); Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (2012); Carlos III–Juan March Institute, Spain (2014); Catholic University of Córdoba, Argentina (2009); Chicago (2011, 2014); CIDE, Mexico (2015); CIDOB Foundation, Spain (2008); Claremont (2010); Columbia (2012); Costa Rica (2017); Diego Portales, Chile (2015); Duke–UNC (2014); ETH–Zurich, Switzerland (2015); FIU (2017); Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Brazil (2011); Harvard (2012, 2014); Hebrew, Israel (2013, 2017, 2018); Hertie School of Governance, Germany (2013); Geneva, Switzerland (2015, 2018); Illinois (2016); ITAM, Mexico (2015); Lund, Sweden (2014); McGill (2018); MIT (2016); Notre Dame (2011, 2014); Northwestern (2011); NYU (2011); NYU Abu Dhabi (2017, 2018); OECD (2017); Oxford, UK (2009, 2011, 2012, 2015); Pontifical Catholic University, Chile (2012, 2015); Pontifical Catholic University, Peru (2015); Princeton (2013, 2015); Reed (2018); Rochester (2010); Salamanca, Spain (2012, 2013); San Andrés, Argentina (2009); SUNY-Buffalo (2016); Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina (2006, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016); Toulouse School of Economics, France (2017); Tulane (2011); UCSD (2012); University of the Republic, Uruguay (2012, 2016); UT-Austin (2014); Vanderbilt (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015); Wash U (2018); Wisconsin (2010); Yale (2007, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2017)
Conference Presentations American Political Science Association: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Argentine Association of Political Analysis: 2009 Council for European Studies: 2008 European Political Science Association: 2013, 2014, 2017 FLACSO-ISA Joint International Conference: 2014 Latin American Studies Association: 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017 Midwest Political Science Association: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 Southern Political Science Association: 2011 WAPOR Latin America Conference: 2016
Invited presentations Peruvian Congress of Electoral Studies: 2014
Fellowships and Awards Jack Walker Award, Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political Science Association (2016) – awarded to the best article published in the previous two years on political organizations and parties Alexander L. George Article Award, Qualitative and Multi-Method Research section of the American Political Science Association (2015) – awarded to an article or chapter published in the previous year that demonstrates excellence in the development or application of qualitative methods GESIS Klingemann Prize, Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (2015) – for best scholarship published or finalized in the prior calendar year that uses CSES data
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Emerging Scholar Award, Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political Science Association (2014) – awarded annually to a scholar within five years of receiving a Ph.D. Sage Paper Award (with Nicholas Carnes), Comparative Politics section of the American Political Science Association (2013) – for best paper in comparative politics scheduled to be presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Trice Faculty Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2013–2016) Gabriel A. Almond Award, American Political Science Association (2012) – for best dissertation in comparative politics completed in the previous two years Juan Linz Prize, Comparative Democratization section of the American Political Science Association (2012) – for best dissertation in the study of democracy completed in the previous two years Best Paper Award, Political Institutions section of the Latin American Studies Association (2012) – for best paper on Latin American politics presented at the 2010 International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Sage Paper Award, Honorable Mention (with Jonas Pontusson), Comparative Politics section of the American Political Science Association (2011) – for best paper in comparative politics presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Porter Ogden Jacobus Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University (2010-2011) – awarded annually to one graduate student in social sciences Patricia Lynn Baker Prize, University of Chicago (2005) – for best graduate student paper addressing social inequality Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2004) Charles Hayden Memorial Scholarship, Columbia University (1998-1999)
Grants Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Seed Grant, Vanderbilt University (2017) Graduate School Fall Research Competition Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2013: $58,270, 2014: $33,384, 2015: $35,600) LACIS Nave Faculty Publication Supplement, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2014) Graduate Research Grant, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Princeton University (Spring 2009, Fall 2009) Graduate Research Grant, Princeton Laboratory for Experimental Social Science, Princeton University (2009) Summer Research Grant, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University (2007, 2009, 2010) Summer Research Grant, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
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Teaching Vanderbilt University Comparative Political Parties (G) – 2016-17 Democracy and Public Opinion: A Practicum in Survey Research (U) – 2016-17, 2017-18 Survey Research Methods (G) – 2016-17, 2017-18
University of Wisconsin-Madison Causal Inference and Experimental Methods (G) – 2013-14 Comparative Political Parties (G) – 2013-14, 2014-15 Comparative Political Parties (U) – 2013-14, 2014-15 Latin American Politics (U) – 2013-14
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Comparative Politics (G) – Summer 2015
Additional teaching University of the Republic of Uruguay, short course on Political Parties in Latin America – December 2016 University of the Republic of Uruguay, short course on Experimental Methods in Political Science – July 2014
Professional Service Vanderbilt University Co-Coordinator, Comparative Politics Speaker Series, 2016–17, 2017–18 Junior Advisory Review Committee, 2017–18 Department Hiring Committee, 2017–18 Department Nominations Committee, 2017–18 Department Hiring Priorities Committee, 2016–17 University Discovery Grant Review Committee (co-chair), 2017–18 University Discovery Grant Review Subcommittee, 2016–17 University Working Group on Research IT, 2016–17, 2017–18 Junior Faculty Review Committee (2), 2016–17
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Coordinator, Comparative Politics Colloquium, 2015–16 Coordinator, Political Economy Colloquium, 2014–15, 2015–16 Co-Coordinator, Experimental Politics Workshop, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16
Professional Associations Executive Council member, Political Organizations and Parties Section, American Political Science Association, 2017–19 Best Paper Award Committee, Political Organizations and Parties Section, American Political Science Association, 2018 Sage Paper Award Committee (Chair), Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association, 2014 Juan Linz Dissertation Award Committee, Comparative Democratization Section, American Political Science Association, 2014 Best Paper Award Committee, Political Institutions Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2013 Section Chair, Latin American and Caribbean Politics, Midwest Political Science Association, 2013
Editorial Boards American Journal of Political Science, 2016–present Journal of Politics, 2017–present Political Behavior, 2017–present
Other Argentina Coordinator, Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, 2014–present Co-Leader, Madison Chapter, Scholars Strategy Network, 2014–2016 Journal Referee: América Latina Hoy, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Brazilian Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Comparative European Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Economics and Politics, Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science Review, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics, Journal of Politics in Latin America, Kellogg Institute Working Paper Series, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, Política y Gobierno, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science Research and Methods, Political Studies, POSTData, Public Choice, Public Opinion Quarterly, Research and Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Social Science Research, Socio-Economic Review, Space and Culture, Studies in Comparative International Development, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, World Politics Press Referee: Cambridge University Press, Routledge
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Funding Referee: National Science Foundation, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Swiss National Science Foundation Member: American Political Science Association, European Political Science Association, Latin American Studies Association, Midwest Political Science Association, Scholars Strategy Network, World Association for Public Opinion Research
Invited Discussant American Political Science Association: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 European Political Science Association: 2014, 2017 Midwest Political Science Association: 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 Latin American Studies Association: 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 Montreal Workshop on Voting Experiments: 2014 Southeast Latin American Behavior Conference: 2017
Book Workshop Discussant Orit Kedar, One State, Many Electoral Systems: How Districts Affect Parliamentary Representation, Hebrew University, 2018 Luis Schiumerini, Blessing and Curse: Incumbency and Democratic Accountability in Latin America, University of Oxford, 2017 Scott Mainwaring, Latin American Party Systems: Institutionalization, Erosion, and Collapse, University of Notre Dame, 2015
Conferences Organized Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies: Argentina in Comparative Perspective (with Virginia Oliveros and Luis Schiumerini), Tulane University, 2016 Parties and Partisans: Explaining Continuity and Change in Party Systems, Juan March Institute, 2013 Political Parties and Uncertainty in New Democracies (with Rachel Beatty Riedl), Princeton University, 2011 Political Parties in the Developing World (with Rachel Beatty Riedl), Princeton University, 2010
Media Interviews Al-Jazeera English (2012); America (2013); Deutsche Welle (2017); Estrategia, Chile (2016); Exame, Brazil (2016); Excélsior, Mexico (2014); Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil (2017); KNRS (2015); Los Angeles Times (2012); WDEL (2015)
Consulting Freedom House (2017–2018) USAID/NORC (2014–2017)
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Non-Academic Positions Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., 2003–2004 Analyst, Silver Oak Solutions, New York, 2002–2003
Other Languages: Native fluency in Spanish and Hebrew, intermediate Portuguese Field Research Experience: Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Crimea, Guatemala, Peru, Venezuela
Last updated: January 16, 2018
