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Dr. Noah Buckley
Assistant Professor, Political Science

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Beazer, Quintin, Noah Buckley, and Ora John Reuter, The Demand for Elections under Autocracy: Regime Approval and the Cancellation of Local Elections in Russia, 2024 Working Paper, 2024

Noah Buckley, Kyle L Marquardt, Ora John Reuter, Katerina Tertytchnaya, Endogenous popularity: How perceptions of support affect the popularity of authoritarian regimes, American Political Science Review, 2023 Journal Article, 2023 DOI

Noah Buckley and Ora John. Reuter and Michael Rochlitz and Anton Aisin, Staying Out of Trouble: Criminal Cases Against Russian Mayors, Comparative Political Studies, 2022, p001041402110473 Journal Article, 2022 DOI

McCarthy, Lauren A., Scott Gehlbach, Timothy Frye, and Noah Buckley, Who Reports Crime? Citizen Engagement with the Police in Russia and Georgia, Europe-Asia Studies, 2021 Journal Article, 2021 DOI

Buckley, Noah and Tucker, Joshua A, Staring at the West through Kremlin-tinted glasses: Russian mass and elite divergence in attitudes toward the United States, European Union, and Ukraine before and after Crimea, Post-Soviet Affairs, 35, (5-6), 2019 Journal Article, 2019

Buckley, Noah and Reuter, Ora John, Performance Incentives under Autocracy: Evidence from Russia's Regions, Comparative Politics, 51, (2), 2019 Journal Article, 2019

Buckley, Noah and Frye, Timothy and Gehlbach, Scott and McCarthy, Lauren A, Cooperating with the state: Evidence from survey experiments on policing, Journal of Experimental Political Science, 3, (2), 2016 Journal Article, 2016

Reuter, Ora John and Buckley, Noah and Shubenkova, Alexandra and Garifullina, Guzel, Local elections in authoritarian regimes: An elite-based theory with evidence from Russian mayoral elections, Comparative political studies, 49, (5), 2016 Journal Article, 2016

Buckley, Noah and Garifullina, Guzel and Reuter, Ora John and Shubenkova, Alexandra, Elections, Appointments, and Human Capital: The Case of Russian Mayors, Demokratizatsiya, 22, (1), 2014 Journal Article, 2014

Buckley, Noah and Frye, Timothy and Garifullina, Guzel and Reuter, Ora John, The political economy of Russian gubernatorial election and appointment, Europe-Asia Studies, 66, (8), 2014 Journal Article, 2014

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Noah Buckley, A Watched Pot Boiling: Street Protest and Public Opinion in Authoritarian Russia, 2024 Working Paper, 2024

Noah Buckley, Rotten Eggs or Bad Apples: Corruption Arrests and Public Opinion in Authoritarian Russia, 2024 Working Paper, 2024

Noah Buckley, Review of Global Finance, Local Control: Corruption and Wealth in Contemporary Russia, by Igor Logvinenko , The Russian Review, (October), 2022 Review, 2022

Buckley, Noah, Calculating Corruption: Political Competition and Bribery under Authoritarianism, 2017 Thesis, 2017

Research Expertise

Description

In my 11 published, peer-reviewed journal articles, 3 papers under review or prepared for submission, and 3 projects in progress, I have worked to advance our understanding of the politics of Putin-era Russia, how authoritarian government sustains itself, and how the mass public understands their authoritarian environment. My research has been centered around using cutting-edge quantitative statistical techniques and original, micro-level datasets. While this area of research has gained additional relevance since Russia"s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, my work has already contributed to topics like the roles of elections in maintaining Putin"s power and the social nature of support for authoritarian leaders like Putin. In developing my research, I have maintained a large network of intellectual collaborators. I have also participated in and presented at a notable 17 international or Ireland-based conferences or workshops in the five years I have been at Trinity. These included the foremost conferences in the field and in Europe. The next steps in the development of my research agenda include both expanding into the study of wartime public opinion in Russia"s authoritarian regime and returning to the important question of how the regime was able to reach this tragic point. One of the foundational aspects of my research has been the construction of a number of individual-level datasets that allow me to look inside public support for autocrats like Putin in an unprecedented way. I have been able to exploit these datasets to learn about how the Russian public views their government and how the elites who staff that government are composed. For example, I have collected the largest single database of individual-level public opinion survey responses of Russians and have begun using this data to answer questions about Russia"s lack of democracy, why Russians support the war in Ukraine, and other topics. In combination with new collection of experimental survey data in Russia (currently underway), and anticipated data collection in countries including China, Turkey, and Kazakhstan in a coming ERC application project, I will be able to continue contributing both theoretically and empirically to timely and important research questions.

Keywords

Comparitive political economy; Eastern Europe; Political Economy; Russian, Soviet, East and central European politics; Statistical and simulation methodologies

Recognition

Representations

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Memberships

Political Science Association of Ireland 2022 – present

American Political Science Association 2010 – present

European Political Science Association 2010 – present

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2009 – 2022

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies 2013 – 2015