Jane Green FAcSS FAAAS
Professor of Political Science and British Politics
Research interests: political accountability, understanding of political and economic and other policy shocks; survey measurement; British elections.
I am the Director of the Nuffield Politics Research Centre, Co-Director of the British Election Study, President of the British Polling Council, President of the British Politics Group of the American Political Science Association, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Elections Analyst for ITV News and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for British Politics at the University of Hull.
I am interested in supervising PhD students working with British Election Study data, other related political/attitudinal/election study data, projects on political accountability, economics and voting - in particular economic insecurity and wealth - and political attitudes, gender, and political representation and elections more broadly. I supervise comparative projects that fall into the above substantive areas. I'm particularly interested in research with a clear social benefit.
I am passionate about ensuring greater representation and providing mentoring for under-represented groups.
My research focuses on the link between what governments do (policy outcomes, the economy, political competition) and how people respond to them.
I am a co-author (with the British Election Study team), of 'Electoral Realignment: How Brexit Re-Shaped British Elections' (under contract with Oxford University Press), where we conduct an in-depth explanation of realignments and examination of the Brexit realignment in over-time context. I am also a co-author of 'Electoral Shocks: Understanding the Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World', 2020, OUP. This book explains how the British party system destabilized due to the combination of electoral shocks and over time increases in underlying electoral volatility.
With Will Jennings I authored 'The Politics of Competence: Parties, Public Opinion and Voters', CUP, 2017. There we show how shocks cause substantial changes to party policy reputations, reveal how voters generalise competence assessments across the policy agenda, and demonstrate how governments suffer costs of ruling due to predictable over-time dynamics in the attribution of blame.
I am working on a number of projects to understand the relationship between cultural and economic drivers of political attitudes, how economic insecurity and a lack of economic insurance shapes political attitudes, including across generations, and understanding education and age gaps in vote choice.
I take an active role in the analysis of British politics and elections and have served as ITV News Election Analyst in the 2015 general election, 2016 EU referendum, 2016 US presidential election, 2017 British general election, 2019 British general election and the 2020 US presidential election. I have also provided analysis for the BBC; the BBC Radio 4 2019 European Elections results programme, BBC television 2014 local elections results programme, numerous BBC Breakfast appearances, interviews for Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the World at One, the Today Programme, Westminster Hour, Woman's Hour, and the 2010 and 2005 BBC World Service radio election night programmes.
In 2023 I received (with BES colleagues) the inaugural Pippa Norris Prize from the Political Studies Association for a research team that has made an outstanding contribution to advancing knowledge in Political Studies, and I was also winner in 2023 of the Department of Politics and International Relations Impact Leader Award, recognising a significant track record of achieving impact or a commitment to collaboration and engaged research. I received the Political Studies Association ‘Research Communicator of the Year’ award in 2015.
I served on the Market Research Society and British Polling Council independent inquiry into the 2015 opinion polls and have given evidence to committees in the House of Lords and the House of Commons. I am an Affiliate at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science and an editorial member of Comparative Political Studies. I was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 2016, and at the University of California at Berkeley in 2007. I received my DPhil from Nuffield College in 2007.
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