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Understanding the role of information (including disinformation) and social exposure in shaping individual opinions and attitudes toward society in various contexts, such as political preferences, perceptions of migrants, child stimulation practices, and nutrition; the political economy of political cleavages and social inequality, with a focus on the geographic and socio-demographic factors influencing electoral preferences
Bridging the information divide between the people and parliament, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
Text-as-data enthusiast, studying the promises and limits of machine learning and generative AI in political communication. Research interests include (but are not limited to) populism, its measurement and trends, political sophistication at the textual level, and electoral campaigns.
Public opinion: concept, measurement, determinants; Effects of social movements, especially disruptive protests; Government and challenger party success and failure
Political Parties, election campaigns; nationalism; European Union politics; Irish politics; British politics
Personal Website: www.satjohnston.com
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Political Parties, Voting Behaviour, Electoral Campaigns, Illiberalism, Rule Of Law
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Corporate criminality and tax evasion, sociolegal research in international economic law, judicial independence and investment arbitration, and sovereign debt and human rights
Investigating the weaponisation of food and the gendered dimensions of hunger as central challenges to international security; examining how food insecurity intersects with conflict dynamics and peacebuilding in Ukraine, the Sahel, and beyond.
Other Research direction focuses on nuclear deterrence and nonproliferation, EU air and missile defense, and the strategic implications of Russian threats for European and global security.