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Department of Political Science

Noam Lupu

Professor of Political Science
Director, Center for Global Democracy

Noam Lupu is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Global Democracy. He studies comparative political behavior, partisanship and political parties, class and inequality, representation, and legacies of violence. He is the author of Party Brands in Crisis(Cambridge University Press, 2016) and coeditor of Unequal Democracies (with Jonas Pontusson, Cambridge University Press, 2024) and Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies (with Virginia Oliveros and Luis Schiumerini, University of Michigan Press, 2019). His research has appeared in American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, and World Politics, among other outlets. He has also received numerous prestigious awards and fellowships.

Representative publications

  • Carnes, Nicholas, and Noam Lupu. Forthcoming. “Are There Social Class Gaps in Nascent Political Ambition? Survey Evidence from the Americas,” Journal of Politics.
  • Lupu, Noam, and Jonas Pontusson, eds. 2024. Unequal Democracies: Public Policy, Responsiveness, and Redistribution in an Era of Rising Economic Inequality. SSRC Anxieties of Democracy Series. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Carnes, Nicholas, and Noam Lupu. 2023. “The Economic Backgrounds of Politicians,” Annual Review of Political Science 26: 253-270.
  • Lupu, Noam, and Zach Warner. 2022. “Affluence and Congruence: Unequal Representation Around the World,” Journal of Politics 84(1): 276-290.
  • Lupu, Noam, Virginia Oliveros, and Luis Schiumerini, eds. 2019. Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies: Argentina in Comparative Perspective. Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Lupu, Noam, and Leonid Peisakhin. 2017. “The Legacy of Political Violence Across Generations,”American Journal of Political Science 61(4): 836-851.
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