Research

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. Social Democratic Party Positions on the EU: The Case of Brexit

   Swatton, P.J. (2022)

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PhD Thesis

My PhD thesis is titled Three Essays on the Measurement of Political Ideology. It has three component papers:

1. Agree to Agree: Correcting Acquiescence Bias in the Case of Fully Unbalanced Scales with Application to UK Measurements of Political Beliefs
2. Age Isn't Just a Number: A Comparative Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Political Beliefs in Europe
3. Social Democratic Party Positions on the EU: The Case of Brexit

Preprints

1. Collected Notes on Aldrich-McKelvey Scaling

   Swatton, P.J. (2023)

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Working Papers

1. Agree to Agree: Correcting Acquiescence Bias in the Case of Fully Unbalanced Scales with Application to UK Measurements of Political Beliefs

   Swatton, P.J. (2021)

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2. Age Isn't Just a Number: A Comparative Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Political Beliefs in Europe

   Swatton, P.J. (2021)

   PDF Appendix

3. The effect of Vocational Training on Voter Choice in the Case of Germany

   Swatton, P.J. and Wagner, S. (2021)

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Work In Progress

1. How Parties Die? Political Parties Change and Mortality in Western Democracies

   Kuraishi, A., Swatton, P.J., and Zur, R.

2. Participation and Inequality in the U.S. States

   Kostelka, F., Crippa, L. and Swatton, P.J.