Noel, Hans, 1971-

Hans C. Noel (born November 3, 1971) is an American political scientist. He is an associate professor at Georgetown University's Department of Government. Noel graduated from Northwestern University 1994 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. He pursued graduate studies at UCLA's Department of Political Science (M.A. 1999, Ph.D. 2006). Noel was a fellow in the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2008 to 2010, Noel was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan. Noel is a part of the UCLA School of Political Parties, which holds that political parties are created by intense policy demanders, rather than by ambitious politicians.