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Jane Green (political scientist)

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Jane Green
NationalityBritish
Alma materNuffield College, Oxford
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical science
Institutions

Jane Green is a British political scientist and academic. She is Professor of Political Science and British Politics at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow of Nuffield College. She is a specialist in public opinion and electoral behaviour, and has co-directed the British Election Study. She is the president of the British Polling Council.[1]

Academic work

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Green received her PhD from Nuffield College, Oxford. She then joined the faculty at the University of Manchester, before moving to the University of Oxford.[2]

In 2017, Green coauthored the book The Politics of Competence: Parties, Public Opinion and Voters with political scientist Will Jennings. In The Politics of Competence, Green and Jennings study how voters evaluate the competence of political parties on specific issues.[3] They use data from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Germany to study three components of party issue competence: the reputation of parties on particular issues, voters' evaluations of parties on a particular issue, and how well voters think a party is performing overall.[3]

Green was a coauthor, together with the other British Election Study team members, of the 2020 book Electoral Shocks: Understanding the Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World. The book uses data from the British Election Study to examine the state of British politics, and is organised around five shocks to British elections in recent years: the economic crisis, Brexit, immigration following the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.[4]

Green has served on the editorial boards of prominent political science journals including Comparative Political Studies and Political Science Research and Methods. She has been the co-director of the British Election Study,[5] and she was a member of the inquiry established by the British Polling Council and the Market Research Society into the failings of the polling relating to the British 2015 general election.[2]

Green has provided election analysis for ITV News, including as part of their election night coverage.[6] She has also done political analysis on BBC television and radio programs.[7] She received the Research Communicator of the Year award from the Political Studies Association.[8] In 2018, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.[9]

Selected works

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  • The Politics of Competence: Parties, Public Opinion and Voters, with Will Jennings (2017)
  • Electoral Shocks: Understanding the Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World, coauthored with the British Election Study team (2020)

References

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  1. ^ admin (2024-02-12). "New President For The British Polling Council". British Polling Council. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
  2. ^ a b "Jane Elizabeth Green". Harvard University. 2017. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  3. ^ a b Green-Pedersen, Christoffer (June 2020). "Review The Politics of Competence: Parties, Public Opinion and Voters". Perspectives on Politics. 18 (2): 648–649. doi:10.1017/S1537592720000626. S2CID 225826071.
  4. ^ Green, Miranda (January 20, 2020). "Electoral Shocks: the Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World, by Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green and others". Financial Times. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Meet the BES team: Professor Jane Green". British Election Study. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  6. ^ "Jane Green part of ITV News election coverage". University of Oxford. 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  7. ^ "What does a 'majority' mean in a general election?". BBC. March 20, 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  8. ^ "The BES' Jane Green is 'Research Communicator of the Year'". University of Manchester. December 1, 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  9. ^ "Fifty-eight leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences". Academy of Social Sciences. 5 April 2018. Archived from the original on April 15, 2021.