Sam van Noort, Princeton University: Do American Voters Really Not Punish Overt Authoritarian Behavior at the Polls? Natural Experimental Evidence from the 2021 Insurrection of the US Capitol

Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Location: 
Virtual (Princeton faculty, fellows, grad students only). If you are not a CSDP affiliate and want to attend, please send a request for the Zoom link from your Princeton email account to csdp@princeton.edu
Audience: 
Faculty, fellows, and graduate students only
Speaker(s): 
Sam van Noort
Postdoctoral Fellow, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University
Do American Voters Really Not Punish Overt Authoritarian Behavior at the Polls? Natural Experimental Evidence from the 2021 Insurrection of the US Capitol
Sponsor(s): 
Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP)

Paper: PDF iconvan_noort_sam_2021_american_voters_do_punish_undemocratic_behavior_at_the_polls.pdf

Sam van Noort is a Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance of Princeton University. His research focuses on the causes and effects of democratization and democratic backsliding. Ongoing work examines the effect of industrialization on democracy; the conditions under which voters do and do not hold state executives electorally accountable for democratic backsliding; the effect of democratic backsliding in the US on America's soft power abroad; and whether informing voters about the content of scientific evidence can reduce political polarization on issues ranging from climate change to systemic racism. His work has been funded by a Vice-Chancellor's Award from the University of Cambridge, a Fox International Fellowship from Yale University, a Field Experiment Grant from the International Growth Centre, and a Research Grant from the Cambridge Political Economy Society.

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