Edmund Kelly

PhD student
Harris Manchester College
University of Oxford
edmund.kelly[at]politics.ox.ac.uk

      CV

Thank you for visiting! I am a PhD student in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. I study public opinion and political behaviour in democracies, with a focus on political trust. I do this primarily by analysing quantitative survey data from long-run panels and family/twin studies. I also engage in methodological research about the reproducibility of the social sciences. My work has been published in the Journal of Politics and the British Journal of Political Science, and it has been mentioned in The Guardian.

Publications

1. Educational attainment and political trust (with Qinya Feng). Conditionally accepted at American Journal of Political Science (pending verification of replication files).
2. Revisiting the link between political trust and political participation (with James Tilley and Sven Oskarsson). Journal of Politics 88(3).
3. Misconduct by voters’ own representatives does not affect voters’ generalized political trust (with James Tilley). British Journal of Political Science 54(4), 1496–1505.

Working papers

• The reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science (with Abel Brodeur et al.). R&R at Nature.
• Comparing Human-Only, AI-Assisted, and AI-Led Teams on Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science (with Abel Brodeur et al.). R&R at PNAS.
• Can artificial intelligence solve strategic decision problems? (with Peter Eso, Eszter Kabos, and James Tilley).
• Personality traits do not cause political trust: Evidence from twin and cohort data.
• Mass polarization reduces political trust.
• Political distrust and preferences for regime type.