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Zach Dickson

Thanks for stopping by! I’m a Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantitative Methods in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics. I’m also affiliated with the LSE Data Science Institute. I earned my PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2024.

My research is broadly situated in political behavior, with specific interests in right-wing populism and climate politics. I’m a big fan of research methods, and most of my work includes either computational or causal inference methods (observational and experimental). I’m also always on the prowl for new sources of data to better understand behavior, and my past work has relied on data from social media, newspapers, governments, political parties and many others. My research has been published in journals such as Political Communication, Comparative Political Studies and the American Political Science Review, among a few others.

For more on my research, check out my Research page or my Google Scholar page. My CV is also available here.