Tom Barton
MSc Student in Politics
Royal Holloway, University of London
Biography
From September I will be starting a PhD in Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. This is funded by the SeNSS DTP consortium through the ESRC and I am on a 1+3 full scholarship. My Thesis seeks to understand the impact that voter ID laws have on not only election turnout but perceptions of democratic integrity. This involves building my own dataset of voter ID laws for countries around the world. The main purpose of the PhD is to understand the different ID laws around the world.Also to move the discussion to be more comparative in nature.
More broadly my interests are in quantitative politics, especially voting behaviour, political value formation and value change. However, I also have an interest in individual testimonies of war which typically fall outside of the prevailing narrative of conflict, as they can provide a different view of what war is or can be.
Interests
- Electoral Integrity
- Voting Behaviour
- Political Values
- War Testimony
Education
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PhD in Politics, From September 2020
Royal Holloway, University of London. Thesis - The Impact of Voter ID Laws on Electoral Turnout and Perceptions of Democratic Integrity. A Comparative Study
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MSc in Elections, Campaigns and Democracy, 2019 - present
Royal Holloway, University of London. Thesis - The Mechanisms Between Liberal Values and University Attendance.
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BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations with Quantitative Research (1st Class), 2016 - 2019
University of Kent. Thesis - The Impact of Voter Identification Laws on Electoral Turnout and Perceptions of Democratic Integrity. An Comparative Study.
