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Dr. Noah Buckley

Dr. Noah Buckley

Assistant Professor, Political Science

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Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Buckley, Noah and Reuter, Ora John, Performance Incentives under Autocracy: Evidence from Russia's Regions, Comparative Politics, 51, (2), 2019Journal Article, 2019
  • 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), 2019Journal 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), 2016Journal 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), 2016Journal 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), 2014Journal 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), 2014Journal Article, 2014
  • 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, 2021Journal Article, 2021, 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, p001041402110473Journal Article, 2022, DOI
  • Beazer, Quintin, Noah Buckley, and Ora John Reuter, The Demand for Elections under Autocracy: Regime Approval and the Elimination of Local Elections in Russia, American Journal of Political Science, 2026Journal Article, 2026, DOI
  • 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, 118, (2), 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI
  • Buckley, Noah, Calculating Corruption: Political Competition and Bribery under Authoritarianism, 2017Thesis
  • Noah Buckley, A Watched Pot Boiling: Street Protest and Public Opinion in Authoritarian Russia, 2024Working Paper
  • Noah Buckley, Rotten Eggs or Bad Apples: Corruption Arrests and Public Opinion in Authoritarian Russia, 2024Working Paper
  • Noah Buckley, Review of Global Finance, Local Control: Corruption and Wealth in Contemporary Russia, by Igor Logvinenko , The Russian Review, (October), 2022Review

Research Expertise

Across ten peer-reviewed journal articles " two in the discipline"s top-three general journals, the American Political Science Review (2024) and the American Journal of Political Science (2026) " plus three papers under review and further projects in progress, I have advanced our understanding of Putin-era Russian politics, how authoritarian regimes sustain themselves, and how mass publics understand their authoritarian environment. My work pairs cutting-edge quantitative and experimental methods with original, micro-level datasets I have built myself. This agenda has only grown in relevance since Russia"s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, speaking directly to questions such as the role of elections in sustaining Putin"s power and the social foundations of authoritarian support.

In developing this agenda I have maintained a large network of collaborators and presented at 17 international or Ireland-based conferences and workshops since joining Trinity in 2019, including the foremost venues in the field and in Europe.

My next steps extend this work into wartime public opinion under authoritarianism and return to the question of how the regime reached this point. I already submitted a major external funding application in this direction (Research Ireland, 2025), and it forms the basis of a planned ERC bid.

A foundation of my research is a set of individual-level datasets that open an unprecedented window on public support for autocrats. I have assembled the largest single database of Russian public-opinion responses and use it to study Russia"s lack of democracy and support for the war in Ukraine. Combined with experimental survey data now being collected in Russia, and planned data collection in China, Turkey and Kazakhstan under the ERC project above, this positions me to keep contributing, both theoretically and empirically, to timely and important questions.

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Recognition

  • European Political Science Association present
  • American Political Science Association present
  • British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies 2015
  • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2022
  • Political Science Association of Ireland present
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