I have published a number of academic papers on my research. Many of these are open access and are freely available to the public. I have also authored a number of reports and research notes of interest to wider audiences.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
(by theme)


BOOKS:
  • Dommett, K., Kefford, G., and Kruschinski, S. (2024) Data-Driven Campaigning in Political Parties: Five Advanced Democracies Compared, Oxford:  Oxford University Press, available to buy here.       
  • Dommett, K. (2020) The Reimagined Party: Democracy, Change and the Public, Manchester: Manchester University Press. More details here. You can also watch a video of me speaking about the book here.
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​ ​​POLITICAL PARTIES, DATA AND DIGITAL CAMPAIGNING:
  • Dubois, E. and Dommett, K. (2025) ‘Reconceptualising political influencers: An alternative means of definition and analysis’, New Media and Society. In Press. Available here.
  • Zhu, J., Dommett, K. & Stafford, T. (2025) 'What makes online political ads unacceptable? Interrogating public attitudes to inform regulatory responses'. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12(806). Available here.
  • Dommett, K. (2025) The ‘datafication’ of campaigning in British party politics', British Politics, online first. Available here. 
  • Dommett, K., Luke, S. and Gordon, H. (2025) ‘Making elections more transparent? Lessons from the implementation of digital imprints at the 2024 UK General Election’, Policy Studies, online first. Available here.
  • Luke, S., Pattie, C., Temple, L. and Dommett, K. (2025) ‘How does Rurality affect campaigning?’ Electoral Studies, 95, online first. Available here. 
  • Dommett, K., McKelvey, F. and Kefford, G. (2024) ‘The platformisation of party politics? A comparative study of party websites’ technological infrastructures 2012-2021’, Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 4. Available here.
  • Luke, S. Bonn, E. Dommett, K., Gobson, R., Kruikemeier, S. and Lecheler, S. (2024) Editorial: Data-Driven Campaigning in a Comparative Context—Toward a 4th Era of Political Communication?  Media and Communication, Volume 12 (8520). Available here.
  • Bon, E. Dommett, K. Gibson, R., Kruikemeier, S. and Lecheler, S. (2024). Are Certain Types of Microtargeting More Acceptable? Comparing US, German, and Dutch Citizens’ Attitudes".  Media and Communication, Volume 12 (8520). Available here.
  • Dommett, K., & Power, S. (2024). The Shock of the Old? The Value of Looking Back When Studying the Mercurial World of Political Campaigning. Political Communication Report, Spring 2024, 1–8. Available here.
  • Vliegenthart, R., Vrielink, J., Dommett, K., Gibson, R.,  Bon, E., Chu, X., de Vreese, C., Lecheler, S., Matthes, J., Minihold, S., Otto, L., Stubenvoll, M., Kruikemeier, S. (2024) ‘Citizens’ acceptance of data-driven political campaigning: a 25-country cross-national vignette study’, Social Science Computer Review. Available here.
  • Dommett, K., Power, S., Barclay, A., and Macintyre, A. (2024) 'Understanding the modern election campaign: Analysing campaign eras through financial transparency disclosures at the 2019 UK general election', Government and Opposition, 1-27, Available here.
  • Barclay, A., Dommett, K., & Russmann, U. (2024). Data Driven-Campaign Infrastructures in Europe: Evidence from Austria and the UK. Journal of Political Marketing, 1–20, Available here.
  • Dommett, K.  (2024) '"I always feel like somebody’s watching me": What do the U.S. electorate know about political micro-targeting and how much do they care?', Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 4. Available here.
  • Dommett, K.  (2023) 'The 2024 Election Will Be Fought on the Ground, Not By AI', Political Insight, 14(4). Available here.
  • Dommett, K. and Zhu, Z. (2023) 'What is an online political advert? An interrogation of conceptual challenges in the formation of digital policy response', Policy and Internet, 1-18. Available here.  
  • Power, S., Dommett, K., Macintyre, A. & Barclay, A. (2023) 'Voters’ Understanding of Electoral Spending: Evaluating UK Transparency Mechanisms', Representation. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. and Power, S. (2023) ‘Monitoring digital election campaigns: Assessing the transparency ecosystem in the United Kingdom’, Politics. ​Available here.
  • Dommett, K., Barclay, A. and Gibson, R. (2023) 'Just what is data-driven campaigning? A systematic review', Information, Communication & Society. ​Available here.
  • Dommett, K., Mensah, S.a., Zhu, J., Stafford, T. & Aletras, N. (2023) 'Is There a Permanent Campaign for Online Political Advertising? Investigating Partisan and Non-Party Campaign Activity in the UK between 2018–2021', Journal of Political Marketing, DOI: 10.1080/15377857.2023.2175102. 
  • Dommett, K. and Power, S. (2022) ‘The Business of Elections: Transparency and UK Election Spending’, Political Insight, 13(3): 12-15, available here.
  • Dommett, K. and Zhu, Z. (2022) 'The Barriers to Regulating the Online World: Insights from UK Debates on Online Political Advertising', Internet and Policy, 14: 772-787. Available here.
  • Kefford, G., Dommett, K., Baldwin-Philippi, J., Bannerman, S., Dobber, T., Kruschinski, S., Kruikemeier, S. and Rzepecke, E. (2022) ‘Data-Driven Campaigning and Democratic Disruption: Evidence from Six Advanced Democracies’, Party Politics, 29(3): 448-462. Available here.  
  • Dommett, K. and Power, S. (2021) ‘Studying Digital Parties: Methods, Challenges and Responses’, in Oscar Barberà, Giulia Sandri, Patricia Correa and Juan Rodríguez-Teruel (Eds.) Digital Parties: The Challenges of Online Organisation and Participation’, London: Routledge, pp.67-83. Details here. 
  • Bakir, M. E. (2020) 'A Transparent Digital Election Campaign? The Insights and Significance of Political Advertising Archives for Debates on Electoral Regulation', Parliamentary Affairs, 73 (Supplement 1):208-224. Available here and as a book chapter in Tonge, J., Wilks-Heeg, S. and Thompson, L. (eds) Britain Votes: The 2019 General Election. Available here.
  • Dommett, K., Temple, L. and Seyd, P. (2020) 'Dynamics of Intra-Party Organisation in the Digital Age: A Grassroots Analysis of Digital Adoption', Parliamentary Affairs, 74(2): 378-397. Available here.
  • Dommett, K., Fitzpatrick, J., Mosca, L., & Gerbaudo, P. (2020). Are digital parties the future of party organization? A symposium on The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy by Paolo Gerbaudo, Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana Di Scienza Politica, 1-14. Available here.
  • Power, S. and Dommett, K. (2020) ‘From multi-speed to multi-stream? Recognising the motivations, processes and triggers behind party membership’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 22(3): 505-522. Available here.
  • Dommett, K., Kefford, G., and Power, S. (2020) 'The digital ecosystem: The new politics of party organization in parliamentary democracies', Party Politics, 27(5): 847-857. Available here. 
  • Dommett, K. (2019) 'Data-driven political campaigns in practice: understanding and regulating diverse data-driven campaigns', Internet Policy Review, 8(4), 1-18. Available here. 
  • Dommett, K. and Power, S. (2019) 'Digital campaign regulation: more urgent than ever?​', Election Analysis. Available here. 
  • Dommett, K. (2019) 'The Rise of Online Political Advertising', Political Insight, 10(4). Available here.
  • Dommett, K. and Power, S. (2019) 'The Political Economy of Facebook Advertising: Election Spending, Regulation and Targeting Online', Political Quarterly, 90: 257-265. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. and Temple, L. (2019) 'The Expert Cure? Exploring the Restorative Potential of Expertise for Public Satisfaction with Parties', Political Studies, 68(2): 332-349. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. (2018) ‘Roadblocks to Interactive Digital Adoption? Elite Perspectives of Party Practices in the UK’, Party Politics, 26(2): 165-175. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. and Temple, L. (2018) ‘Digital Campaigning: The Rise of Facebook and Satellite Campaigns’, Parliamentary Affairs, 71(1): 189-202. Available here. 
  • Dommett, K. and Rye, D. (2017) ‘Taking up the baton? New campaigning organisations and the enactment of representative functions’, Politics, 38(4): 411-427. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. (2016) ‘Post-Democratic Party Politics?’, Political Quarterly, 87(1): 86–90. Available here. 
  • Dommett, K. (2015) ‘Ideological Quietism? Ideology and Party Politics in Britain’, Political Studies, 64(1): 106-122. Available here. 
  • Dommett, K. (2015) ‘The Theory and Practice of Party Modernisation: The Conservative Party under David Cameron, 2005–2015', British Politics, 10(2): 249–266. Available here. 

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, PLATFORMS, REGULATION AND DATA ACCESS:
  • Dommett, K., Mensah, S. A., Zhu, J., & Stafford, T. (2024). Understanding the communicative strategies used in online political advertising and how the public views them. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 0(0). Available here.
  • Stafford, T., Gordon, H., Zhu, J., & Dommett, K. (2024). Online political adverts: The effect of disclosures and opportunities for clandestine campaigning. Political Psychology, 00, 1–27. Available here.
  • Barclay, A., Gibson, R., & Dommett, K. (2023) 'The regulatory ecosystem of data driven campaigning in the UK'. Frontiers in Political Science, 5. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. and Tromble, R. (2022) ‘Advocating for Platform Data Access: Challenges and opportunities for academics seeking policy change’, Politics and Governance, 10(1): 220-229. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. and Verovsek (2021) 'Promoting Democracy in the Digital Public Sphere: Applying Theoretical Ideals to Online Political Communication', Javnost- The Public, 28(4): 358-374. Available here.
  • Barrett, B., Dommett, K. and Kreiss, D. (2021) 'The capricious relationship between technology and democracy: Analyzing public policy discussions in the UK and US', Policy and Internet, 13(4): 522-543. Available here. 
  • Dommett, K. (2021) 'The inter-institutional impact of digital platform companies on democracy: A case study of the UK media's digital campaigning coverage', New Media and Society, 25(10): 2763-2780. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. (2020) 'Researching for Democracy? Data Access and the Study of Online Platforms', Political Insight, 11(3): 34-36. Available here. 
  • Dommett, K. (2020) ‘Introduction: Regulation and Oversight of Digital Campaigning – Problems and Solutions’, Political Quarterly, 91: 705-712. Available here.
  • Margetts, H and Dommett, K. (2020) ‘Four Recommendations to Improve Digital Electoral Oversight in the UK’, Political Quarterly, 91: 745-750. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. (2020) 'Regulating Digital Campaigning: The Need for Precision in Calls for Transparency', Policy and Internet, 12: 432-449. Available here. 

​POLITICS, PARLIAMENT AND PUBLIC ATTITUDES:
  • Soo, N., Weinberg, J. and Dommett, K. (2020) ‘One Moment, Please: Can The Speed And Quality Of Political Contact Affect Democratic Health?’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 22(3): 460-484. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. and Pearce, W. (2019) 'What do we know about public attitudes towards experts? Reviewing survey data in the UK and EU', Public Understanding of Science, 28(6): 669-678. Available here.
  • Boswell, J., Corbett, J., Dommett, K., Flinders, M., Jennings, W., Rhodes, R.A.W. and Wood, M. (2017) ‘What can political ethnography tell us about anti-politics and democratic disaffection?’. European Journal of Political Research, 58(1): 56-71. ​Available here. 
  • Dommett, K. (2017) ‘United Kingdom’, European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook. Available here.
  • Geddes, M., Dommett, K. and Prosser, B. (2017) ‘A Recipe for Impact? Exploring knowledge requirements in the UK Parliament and beyond’ Evidence and Policy, 14(2): 259-276. Available here. 
  • Dommett, K., Hindmoor, A., and Wood, M. (2017) ‘Who meets whom: Access and lobbying during the coalition years’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 19(2): 389-407. Available here. 
  • Dommett. K, (2015) ‘Clown Prince or Party Saviour? Exploring the Oratory of Boris Johnson’ in R. Hayton and A. Crines (eds.) Orators in Conservative Party Politics, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp.166-181.
  • Dommett. K, (2014) ‘Rhetoric and Party Politics: Looking Beyond the Leader’ in Atkins. J, Finlayson. A, Martin. J, and Turnbull. N (eds.), Rhetoric in British Politics and Society, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.73-86.
  • Flinders, M. and Dommett, K. (2013) ‘Gap Analysis:  Participatory Democracy, Public Expectations and Community Assemblies in Sheffield’, Local Government Studies, 39(4): 488-513. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. and Flinders, M. (2014) ‘The Politics and Management of Public Expectations: Gaps, Vacuums and the 2012 Mayoral Referenda’, British Politics, 9(1): 29-50. Available here.
  • Dommett. K, (2013) ‘A Miserable Little Compromise: Exploring Liberal Democrat Fortunes in the UK Coalition’, Political Quarterly, 8(2): 218-227. Available here. 

GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION:
  • Dommett, K., McCarthaigh, M., and Hardiman, N. (2016) ‘Reforming the Westminster Model of Agency Governance: Britain and Ireland after the Crisis’ Governance, 29(4): 535-552. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. and McCarthaigh, M. (2016) ‘Quango reform: the next steps?, Public Money and Management , 36(4): 249-256. Available here. 
  • Dommett, K. and Flinders, M. (2015) ‘The Centre Strikes Back: Meta-Governance, Delegation, and the Core Executive in the United Kingdom 2011-2014’, Public Administration, 93(1): 1-16. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. and Skelcher, C. (2014) ‘The Micro-Politics of Agency Survival: A Strategic-Relational Analysis of Quango Reform in UK Government’, International Public Management Journal, 17(4): 540-563. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. and Flinders, M. (2014) ‘The Politics of Quangocide’, Policy and Politics, 43(1):  3-25. Available here.
  • Dommett, K., Flinders, M., Skelcher, C. and Tonkiss, K. (2014) ‘Did they ‘Read before Burning?’ The Coalition and Quangos’, Political Quarterly, 85(2): 133–142. Available here.
  • Flinders, M., Dommett, K. and Tonkiss, K. (2014) ‘Bonfires and Barbeques: Coalition Governance and the Politics Of Quango Reform’, Contemporary British History, 28(1): 56-80. Available here. 

REPORTS AND DATASETS

  • Working for the Democracy and Digital Technology select committee in the House of Lords, I have recently compiled a spreadsheet of recommendations made by Parliamentary committees that relate digital that can be accessed here. Do please get in touch with any questions.
  • Dommett, K. and Power, S. (2020) Democracy in the Dark, Electoral Reform Society. Available here. 
  • Dommett, K. and Temple, L. (2018) What do we want from Political Parties. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. and Power, S. (2018) The Membership Journey, Sheffield Solutions Policy Brief. Available here.
  • Dommett, K., Geddes, M., and Prosser, B. (2016) A Recipe for Parliamentary Impact? Sheffield Solutions Policy Brief, University of Sheffield. Available here.
  • Dommett, K. and Flinders, M. (2015) Building Effective Democracies: The Role of UK Political Parties: A Report for the Westminster Foundation for Democracy.
  • Dommett, K. (January 2014) Triennial Reviews and Public Body Reform in the UK, Shrinking the State Website. Available here.  ​
  • Tonkiss, K. and Dommett, K. (2014) Making Connections, Shaping Debates: The Emerging Role of the Public Chairs’ Forum. Available here. 
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