Curriculum Vitae
Joseph Noonan
PhD Candidate · Department of Political Science, Stockholm University
Universitetsvägen 10 F, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Education
2023 – PRESENT
Doctoral Studies in Political Science Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden
2020 – 2022
Master of Science in Political Science Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden
- Thesis: “Where Did Their Tweets Go?”: A Quantitative Analysis of Parliamentarians’ “Missing Tweets” in Western Europe.
2010 – 2014
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science Sonoma State University Rohnert Park, USA
Visiting Positions
MAR – JUN 2026
Visiting Scholar European University Institute Florence, Italy
- Under the supervision of Professor Elias Dinas.
Research and Publications
Accepted
- Noonan, Joseph. The Impact of U.S. Tariffs on European Public Opinion: Evidence From a Natural Experiment. Registered Report, conditionally accepted, Journal of Experimental Political Science.
In Review
- Turnbull-Dugarte, Stuart J., Michal Grahn, Joseph Noonan & Rebecka Knudsen. Reactions to US Liberal Democratic Decay.
In Prep
- Noonan, Joseph. Who Stigmatizes the Radical Right?
- Noonan, Joseph. Disenfranchisement, Fraud, Social Norms and Secret Ballots in the Post-Reconstruction South.
- Noonan, Joseph. Bystanders and Political Conformity: Evidence From Britain.
- Noonan, Joseph. Does Democracy Foster Liberal and Egalitarian Values?
Datasets
- Noonan, Joseph and Jan Teorell. 2023. Historical Conflict Dataset (HCD), version 1.0. H-DATA.
- Teorell, Jan, Johan Hellström, Joseph Noonan and Lotta Wiechel. 2024. Historical Cabinets (H-CAB) Dataset, version 2.0. H-DATA.
- Teorell, Jan, Carl Dahlström, Mikael Holmgren and Joseph Noonan. In prep. A Complete Dataset of Roll-Call Votes in the Swedish Parliament, 1925–1993. H-DATA.
Book Reviews
- Noonan, Joseph. 2024. Review of The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand. Party Politics. doi: 10.1177/13540688241300491.
Policy Briefs
- Noonan, Joseph and Martin Brusis. 2018. Corruption and The Global State of Democracy Indices. International IDEA. doi: 10.31752/idea.2018.76.
- Noonan, Joseph. 2018. Inclusion and the Global State of Democracy Indices. International IDEA. doi: 10.31752/idea.2018.75.
- Noonan, Joseph. 2019. Political Gender Equality and the Global State of Democracy Indices. International IDEA. doi: 10.31752/idea.2019.8.
- Noonan, Joseph. 2019. Press Freedom and the Global State of Democracy Indices. International IDEA. doi: 10.31752/idea.2019.15.
Awards, Fellowships & Grants
2025
Best Paper Presented by an Early Career Scholar, Annual Meeting 2024 Swedish Political Science Association (SWEPSA) 10,000 SEK
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Travel Scholarship for Young Researchers Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien 12,900 SEK
Presentations
Conferences
- American Political Science Association: 2026.
- European Political Science Society: 2026.
- European Political Science Association: 2025.
- Swedish Political Science Association: 2024, 2025, 2026.
Workshops & Seminars
- Workshop Information from Abroad: How Citizens and Elites Respond to Foreign Information and Events, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. 2026.
- Workshop Social Norms in the Political Domain, Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos (CSIC), Madrid, Spain. 2026.
- Comparative Politics Seminar Series, Stockholm University, Sweden. 2025.
- Political Sociology and Economy Seminar Series, Uppsala University, Sweden. 2025.
Service
Peer Review
Additional Coursework
JUN 2025
Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse / Toulouse School of Economics Toulouse, France
Teaching Experience
2024 – PRESENT
Comparative Politics in English Seminar Leader Stockholm University
2025 – PRESENT
Quantitative Methods in English Seminar Leader Stockholm University
2025 – PRESENT
Independent Research Project Bachelor Thesis Supervision Stockholm University
Professional Experience
2023
Associate Researcher University of Gothenburg Gothenburg, Sweden
- Worked on the project “A Complete Dataset of Roll-Call Votes in the Swedish Parliament, 1925–1993” (Feb – Aug 2023).
- Built pipelines turning 40,000 scanned PDF pages into a dataset of over 3 million cases, using Tesseract OCR and automated transformation into tabular formats.
- Oversaw manual corrections and developed workflows for quality control and data cleaning.
2022 – 2023
Research Assistant Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden
- Worked in the H-DATA module of the Demscore project, gathering historical country-level data from 1920 back as far as the French Revolution (1789).
- Responsible for data management, recruiting external country experts, coding historical datasets, and coordinating website development.
2016 – 2025
Various Roles International IDEA Stockholm, Sweden
- Consultant (Aug 2019 – 2025): Data management and visualization for the Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Indices. Led workshops and tutorials on R and the GSoD Indices. Data analysis and management for multi-country surveys.
- Associate Programme Officer (Jan 2018 – Jul 2019): Planned and coordinated GSoD publications. Data analysis, visualization and management in R. Authored reports on corruption, the participation of marginalized groups, and women’s political representation.
- Research Assistant (Sep 2016 – Dec 2017): Prepared datasets, ran statistical analyses, and drafted data-driven reports on democracy indices.
2014 – 2016
Strategic Data Analyst EMC Research Oakland, USA
- Analyzed public opinion surveys using SPSS and R.
- Created reports and presentations for clients.
- Supported qualitative research by preparing moderator guides and taking notes during focus groups.