Noah Dasanaike

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Hi, I'm Noah. I'm a fourth-year PhD candidate and the Carl J. Friedrich Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where I also received my MA (2024) and BA (2022). In the Summer of 2025, I was a Quantitative Research Intern at Two Sigma, where I continue to work part-time during the academic year.

I'm primarily interested in the study of party system cleavages, particularly from a comparative and geographic perspective.

I am the creator of the Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Archive, a database of geocoded, small-area (usually polling-station level) election results for 110 countries. You can read more about the progress of SAGE here.

At Harvard, I have twice taught the Ph.D.-level "Math Prefresher" and GOV 2020: The Hidden Curriculum (for Gary King). I have also taught STAT 186: Causal Inference (for Susan Murphy) and GOV 97: Political Geography (instructor on record), as well as a GIS workshop for PhD students.

You can contact me by email at noahdasanaike@g.harvard.edu.

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Research

Working Papers

• Large Language Models Naively Recover Ethnicity from Individual Records [working paper]
• The Geographic Structure of Party Competition [working paper]
• Comparatively Measuring the Urban-Rural Continuum [working paper]
• The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Archive [working paper], [SAGE data archive]
• Going Glocal: A Macro-Micro Approach to Political Science. (with John Gerring) [working paper]

Publications

• Ekiert, Grzegorz and Noah Dasanaike. (2024). The Return of Dictatorship. Journal of Democracy. [article pdf], [publication page], [working paper], [interview]
• Dasanaike, Noah. (2021). Businessperson Deputies and Party Cohesion: Evidence from the Russian State Duma. Party Politics. [article pdf]

Additional Work

• Dasanaike, Noah and Grzegorz Ekiert. (2025). Autorytarne Preferencje Wyborców Jako Przyczyna Erozji Demokracji. Almanach 2025/2026, Concilium Civitas. [article pdf]