Publications

1. AI-Enabled Influence Operations: The Threat to the UK General Election

   Stockwell, S., Hughes, M., Swatton, P., and Bishop, K. (2024)

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

   Swatton, P. (2024)

   DOI GitHub

3. Model Similarity Phase 2: Dataset Similarity

   Swatton, P., Knight, J. and Bishop, J. (2023)

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

   Swatton, P.J. (2023)

   DOI GitHub

Preprints

1. Collected Notes on Aldrich-McKelvey Scaling

   Swatton, P.J. (2023)

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Other Writing

1. What are deepfakes and how can we detect them?: The science behind the tech that's transforming the online world

   Swatton, P., and Leblanc, M. (2024)

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Working Papers

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

   Swatton, P.J. (2021)

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2. 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.

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