Sam van Noort

Sam van Noort is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge. His PhD dissertation examines the long-run relationship between industrialization, structural societal change, and democratization. Besides his interest in questions surrounding industrialization and democratization, he also has an active research interest in the determinants of populist voting in Western Europe and the United States. On the later topic he has recently published a paper in Economic Policy, which is an internationally peer-reviewed economics journal with an impact factor of 2.844. ; ; Sam holds a BSc and MSc in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam. In both degrees he graduated top of his class and with highest distinction. His master thesis received the highest grade in the history of the master program and was awarded with a university wide thesis prize. ; ; Besides his research he currently teaches economics at the Department of International Development of the University of Oxford. Previously he taught methods and statistics at the Department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam.