Noam Lupu is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University and Director of the Center for Global Democracy. He is the author of Party Brands in Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and co-editor of Unequal Democracies (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies (University of Michigan Press, 2019). In addition to publishing in numerous academic journals, Lupu has written for Politico and The Washington Post, among other outlets.