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Personal Statement
Thomas J. Scotto is a Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Strathclyde. His interests lie in the area of public opinion and applied quantitative methods (particularly structural equation and latent variable modelling). His recent ESRC and British academy funded work is in the area of cross-national public opinion on matters of foreign policy. His work on this subject appears in International Studies Quarterly, Political Behaviour, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and Canadian Foreign Policy. Professor Scotto's earlier work focused on American and Canadian voting behaviour and he co-authored the University of Toronto Press Book Making Political Choices: Canada and the United States. From 2007-2016, he was a member of the Department of Government at the University of Essex where he was the recipient of multiple teaching awards from the Essex Student Union. His consultancies include work on the development of "open government" indicators for the OECD, on "Parliamentary Strengthening" projects in Mozambique, Ukraine, and Georgia, and on survey design work in the United States and United Kingdom.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Duke University
1 Jun 2002 → 31 Dec 2012
Award Date: 31 Dec 2005
Master of Arts
15 Aug 1999 → 31 Aug 2002
Award Date: 31 Aug 2002
Bachelor of Arts, State University of New York at Binghamton
15 Aug 1995 → 31 May 1999
Award Date: 31 May 1999
Keywords
- public opinion
- foreign policy
- American Government
- Canadian Government
- Structural Equation Modelling
- Voting Behaviour
- Latent Variable Modelling
- Quantitative Methods
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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Free Speech and Civil Liberties on the British Campus: The Public Opines
1/10/18 → 1/06/19
Project: Research
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A new measure of the 'democratic peace': what country feeling thermometer data can teach us about the drivers of American and Western European foreign policy
Gries, P., Fox, A., Jing, Y., Mader, M., Scotto, T. J. & Reifler, J., 20 Feb 2020, In: Political Research Exchange. 2, 1, 13 p., 1716630 .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile7 Citations (Scopus)18 Downloads (Pure) -
Personality traits and foreign policy attitudes: a cross-national exploratory study
Gravelle, T. B., Reifler, J. & Scotto, T. J., 15 Jan 2020, In: Personality and Individual Differences . 153, 8 p., 109607.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile6 Citations (Scopus)191 Downloads (Pure)
Activities
- 2 Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Centre for Energy Policy Energy Conversations: Do we have the necessary skilled labour to enable a net zero economy?
Christian Calvillo Munoz (Organiser), Antonios Katris (Organiser), Oluwafisayo Titilope Alabi (Organiser), Thomas Scotto (Speaker), Hazel Nolan (Speaker), Roddy Scott (Speaker), Karen Turner (Speaker) & Alf Young (Chair)
27 Feb 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Energy Security Challenges: NATO's approach
Thomas Scotto (Participant)
24 Jan 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course