My name is Noah Pruitt and I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University.
Broadly, my research is related to the fields of comparative politics and international relations, particularly democracy, attitudes towards democracy, democratic backsliding, and executive politics. More specifically, I study how political actors, institutional contexts, and perceptions of democratic performance influence citizens’ satisfaction with democracy in Latin America. Incorporating my general focus on democracy, my research also extends to the international level to investigate how international factors, such as economic sanctions, affect trends of democratic backsliding.