About
Ed is an LSE Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods at the Department of Methodology. He works primarily in the fields of political behaviour and political psychology, and his current research has two main themes. First, trying to explain why distrust in democratic political institutions is so widespread, and the consequences of this political distrust for democracies. Second, trying to uncover and explain trends in social trust. He also works on several large-scale collaborative projects about the reproducibility and robustness of the social sciences.
Ed’s work mostly uses quantitative causal inference methods, with a focus on using twin and family data to explain how formative experiences affect our political attitudes. His research has been published in academic journals including Nature, the Journal of Politics and the British Journal of Political Science, and it has been mentioned in The Guardian.
Research
A complete list of Ed's published and ongoing projects can be found on his personal website.
Educational attainment and political trust (with Qinya Feng). American Journal of Political Science (conditionally accepted).
Revisiting the link between political trust and political participation (with James Tilley & Sven Oskarsson). Journal of Politics 88(3), 1048-1065.
Comparing human-only, AI-assisted, and AI-led teams on assessing research reproducibility in quantitative social science (with Abel Brodeur, David Valenta, Alexandru Marcoci, et al.).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(22), e2524747123.
Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research (with Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook, et al.). Nature 652(8108), 151-156.
Misconduct by voters’ own representatives does not affect voters’ generalized political trust (with James Tilley). British Journal of Political Science 54(4), 1496-1505.