Zach Dickson

Zach Dickson is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantitative Methods at the Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), with an affiliation to the LSE Data Science Institute. He earned his PhD in 2024 from the University of Glasgow, focusing on how gender and social class influence legislative behavior in the US and UK.

• Research Interests: US politics, right-wing populism, climate politics, causal inference, computational methods.
• Methodological Expertise: Applied causal inference, computational analysis using social media, government, and party data.

Recent Research Trends include:

• Examining the youth gender gap in far-right support and its implications for democratic stability.
• Analyzing how elite cues drive noncompliance with public health policies, particularly during crises like the pandemic.
• Investigating the weaponization of climate change as a wedge issue by radical right parties to polarize electorates.
• Linking public service decline to rising populist sentiment in Western democracies.
• Exploring gender dynamics in elite-voter interactions through digital platforms.

Collaborations with leading scholars like Sara B. Hobolt and Florian Foos highlight his interdisciplinary approach. His work has been published in top journals such as Political Communication, Comparative Political Studies, and American Political Science Review, with coverage in The Economist and The Guardian.