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1cture-populism/" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Bennett School (Cambridge)</a> </div> <div class="links"> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-sm-2 abbr"> </div> <div id="turnbulldugarte_accommodating_2025" class="col-sm-8"> <div class="title">Accommodating the Radical Right: The Electoral Costs for Social Democratic Parties</div> <div class="author"> Stuart J Turnbull-Dugarte, Jack Bailey, Daniel Devine, and <span class="more-authors" title="click to view 5 more authors" onclick=" var element=$(this); element.attr('title', ''); var more_authors_text=element.text() == '5 more authors' ? 'Zachary P. Dickson, Sara B Hobolt, Will Jennings, Robert Johns, Katharina Lawall' : '5 more authors'; var cursorPosition=0; var textAdder=setInterval(function(){ element.text(more_authors_text.substring(0, cursorPosition + 1)); if (++cursorPosition == more_authors_text.length){ clearInterval(textAdder); } }, '10'); ">5 more authors</span> </div> <div class="periodical"> <em></em> 2025 </div> <div class="periodical"> <strong>R&amp;R, <em>American Political Science Review</em></strong> · <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/zbmp3_v1" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Working draft</a><br><strong>Covered in:</strong> <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/09/its-official-keir-starmers-island-of-strangers-speech-has-backfired" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>The New Statesman</em></a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/26/labour-reform-uk-nigel-farage-immigration-voters" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>The Guardian</em></a> </div> <div class="links"> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-sm-2 abbr"> </div> <div id="dickson_energy_2025" class="col-sm-8"> <div class="title">Energy Bills and Manufactured Climate Backlash</div> <div class="author"> <em>Zachary P. Dickson</em> </div> <div class="periodical"> <em></em> 2025 </div> <div class="periodical"> <strong>Under review</strong> · <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/pn37c_v1" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Working draft (OSF)</a> </div> <div class="links"> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-sm-2 abbr"> </div> <div id="rodriguez_educational_2025" class="col-sm-8"> <div class="title">Educational interventions and public support for EU climate action</div> <div class="author"> <a href="https://irenerodriguezlopez.github.io/" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Irene Rodriguez</a>, <a href="https://tonirodon.cat/" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Toni Rodon</a>, and <em>Zachary P. Dickson</em> </div> <div class="periodical"> <em></em> 2025 </div> <div class="periodical"> <strong>Under review</strong> · <a href="/assets/pdf/edu_interventions_climate_action.pdf">Working paper</a> </div> <div class="links"> </div> </div> </div> </li> </ol> <h2 class="bibliography">2024</h2> <ol class="bibliography"> <li> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-sm-2 abbr"> </div> <div id="dickson_benchmarking_2024" class="col-sm-8"> <div class="title">Benchmarking Support for Climate Action in International Organizations</div> <div class="author"> <em>Zachary P. Dickson</em>, <a href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/government/people/academic-staff/sara-hobolt" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sara B Hobolt</a>, <a href="https://tonirodon.cat/" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Toni Rodon</a>, and <span class="more-authors" title="click to view 2 more authors" onclick=" var element=$(this); element.attr('title', '');

1 var more_authors_text=element.text() == '2 more authors' ? 'Heike Klüver, Theresa Kuhn' : '2 more authors'; var cursorPosition=0; var textAdder=setInterval(function(){ element.text(more_authors_text.substring(0, cursorPosition + 1)); if (++cursorPosition == more_authors_text.length){ clearInterval(textAdder); } }, '10'); ">2 more authors</span> </div> <div class="periodical"> <em></em> 2024 </div> <div class="periodical"> <strong>Working paper</strong> · <a href="https://osf.io/dvwk8" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Pre-analysis plan</a> · <a href="/assets/pdf/benchmarking_climate_support.pdf">Working draft</a> </div> <div class="links"> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-sm-2 abbr"> </div> <div id="dickson_inequality_2024" class="col-sm-8"> <div class="title">Inequality and Support for Right-wing Populism in Britain</div> <div class="author"> <em>Zachary P. Dickson</em>, and <a href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/government/people/academic-staff/sara-hobolt" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sara B Hobolt</a> </div> <div class="periodical"> <em></em> 2024 </div> <div class="periodical"> <strong>Working paper</strong> · <a href="/assets/pdf/housing_inequality.pdf">Working paper</a> </div> <div class="links"> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-sm-2 abbr"> </div> <div id="erfort_partypress_2024" class="col-sm-8"> <div class="title">The PARTYPRESS Database: Party Press Releases Across 30 European Countries, 2010–2025</div> <div class="author"> <a href="https://corneliuserfort.de/" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Cornelius Erfort</a>, and <em>Zachary P. Dickson</em> </div> <div class="periodical"> <em></em> 2024 </div> <div class="periodical"> <strong>Working paper</strong> </div> <div class="links"> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-sm-2 abbr"> </div> <div id="dickson_ai_2024" class="col-sm-8"> <div class="title">AI and Democratic Risk: Political News Customization in Conversational AI</div> <div class="author"> <em>Zachary P. Dickson</em>, Thomas Robinson, and Miriam Sorace </div> <div class="periodical"> <em></em> 2024 </div> <div class="periodical"> <strong>Working paper</strong> </div> <div class="links"> </div> </div> </div> </li> </ol> </div> </article> </div> </div> 

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