Book Project:
To Rig the Rules or to Break the Rules: The Politics of Electoral Manipulation in Autocracies
My book project investigates why some autocrats use extensive fraud to control election results whereas others do not. In order to answer this question, I highlight a set of domestic conditions – namely, lack of social cohesion and citizen networks – under which we expect to observe high levels of fraud. I also argue that colonial history and the need for international legitimacy matter. Where incumbents cannot employ blatant fraud due to the aforementioned domestic factors, they resort to more subtle forms of electoral manipulation: changing election rules. In other words, outright fraud and subtle manipulation operate as partial substitutes.
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
Noh, Yuree and Marwa Shalaby. 2024. “Who Supports Gender Quotas in Transitioning and Authoritarian States in the Middle East and North Africa?” OnlineFirst, Comparative Political Science.
Cheng, Chao-yo and Yuree Noh. 2024. “Electoral Institutions and Repression in Dictatorships.” Electoral Studies: 89.
Noh, Yuree, Sharan Grewal, and M. Tahir Kilavuz. 2023. “Regime Support and Gender Quotas in Autocracies.” American Political Science Review 118 (2): 706-723.
Noh, Yuree. 2023. “Public Opinion and Women’s Rights in Autocracies.” Politics & Gender 20 (1).
Cheng, Chao-yo, YuJung Julia Lee, Galen Murray, Yuree Noh, Johannes Urpelainen, and Joseph Van Horn. 2020. “Vested interests: Examining the political obstacles to power sector reform in twenty Indian states.” Energy Research & Social Science 70.
Working Papers and Projects in Progress:
Noh, Yuree. “Civil Society, Foreign Support, and Electoral Integrity in Kuwait.” Revise & Resubmit, Journal of the Middle East and Africa.
Fariss, Christopher, Nadiya Kostyuk, and Yuree Noh. “Effect of Technology on State Ability to Conduct Surveillance and Censorship.”
Noh, Yuree. “Does Social Cohesion Reduce Electoral Fraud? Evidence from Algeria.”
Noh, Yuree and Karl Kaltenthaler. “Anti-Western Sentiments and Women’s Rights.” Noh, Yuree, Tarek Masoud, and Molly Hickey. “Tax Morale in Rentier States: Evidence from a Survey Experiment.”
Noh, Yuree and Tarek Masoud. “Who Complies? Public Health Mandates andCompliance during the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
Noh, Yuree. “Why Do Dictators Bother Adopting Gender Quotas? Co-Optation of Women as an Electoral Strategy.”
Noh, Yuree and Caroline Abadeer. “Public Goods Provision in Authoritarian Regimes: Education versus Infrastructure in Postwar Algeria.”