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Benjamin Noble's research centers on American politics, specifically examining the U.S. presidency and the executive-legislative separation of powers. His focus is on how politicians use rhetoric and the impact of presidential leadership on congressional behavior. His current projects study the methods presidents employ to build coalitions and their influence on nationalization, polarization, and negative partisanship in politics. Utilizing text-as-data techniques along with formal theoretical models and survey experiments, his work seeks to elucidate the institutional consequences of these dynamics. Currently, Benjamin is a member of the Political Science Department at the University of California San Diego, where he continues to develop these research interests.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).