Tom is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the ERC Consolidator Grant: “Advocacy in Digital Democracy: Use, Impact & Democratic consequences”. Previous to joining King’s he earned his PhD form Royal Holloway, University of London which looked at the impact of voter identification laws on participation and perceptions of electoral integrity.

Click here for his Google Scholar page.

Research interests

• Elections
• Public opinion
• Election law
• Interest groups
• Causal inference

Latest publications

Barton, T. (forthcoming) Understanding the Impact of the 2018 Voter ID Pilots on Turnout at the London Local Elections: A Synthetic Difference-in-Difference Approach.

Barton, T. (2022) Understanding a Key Electoral Tool: A New Dataset on the Global Distribution of Voter Identification Laws. 10.1080/00344893.2022.2113117