Georgetown Democracy Initiative

Hans Noel is associate professor of government and co-director of the Georgetown Democracy Initiative. His research is on political coalitions, political parties, and ideology, with a focus on the United States. He is the author or co-author of four books: Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America (2013); Cooperating Factions: A Network Analysis of Party Divisions in U.S. Presidential Nominations (with Rachel Blum, 2024); The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform (with Martin Cohen, David Karol, and John Zaller, 2008); and Political Parties (with Seth Masket, 2021). His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics and Perspectives on Politics, among other journals. Noel has been a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at the University of Michigan, a fellow in the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and faculty-in-residence at Villa Le Balze in Fiesole, Italy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006 and a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University in 1994.