Benjamin Noble

Benjamin's research in American politics, specifically the U.S. presidency and executive-legislative separation of powers, focuses on what politicians say and how they say it. His current projects study how presidents use rhetoric to build coalitions and how presidential leadership affects congressional behavior. His work uses text-as-data methods, alongside formal theoretic models and survey experiments, to help us understand the institutional consequences of nationalization, polarization, and negative partisanship.
 
Before joining the Political Science Department at University of California San Diego, Benjamin received his PhD in Political Science and BA in History from Washington University in St. Louis.

PhD