Professor Geoffrey Evans FBA

Social class and politics in Britain; the comparative study of political cleavages, social divisions and political representation; understanding the relationships between people’s perceptions, values and political preferences
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Politics, Sociology

Current post

Professor of the Sociology of Politics, University of Oxford; Official Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford

Past appointments

University of Oxford Reader in the Sociology of Politics

LSE Lecturer in Social Psychology

Publications

The New Politics of Class: The Political Exclusion of the British Working Class

Geoffrey Evans and James Tilley - Published in 2017 by Oxford University Press

Political Choice Matters: Explaining the Strength of Class and Religious Cleavages in Cross-National Perspective

Ed. by Geoffrey Evans and Nan Dirk de Graaf - Published in 2013 by Oxford University Press

The End of Class Politics? Class Voting in Comparative Context

Ed. by Geoffrey Evans - Published in 1999 by Oxford University Press

Critical Elections: British Parties and Voters in Long-term Perspective

Ed. by Geoffrey Evans and Pippa Norris - Published in 1999 by SAGE Publications Ltd

Understanding Political Change: The British Voter 1964-1987

John Curtice, Geoffrey Evans, Julia Field, Anthony Heath, Roger Jowell and Sharon Witherspoon - Published in 1991 by Pergamon Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Harry Collins FBA

Sociology & philospophy of knowledge, expertise & science; tacit knowledge; sociology of scientific knowledge; artificial intelligence; gravitational-wave detection since 1970; imitation Game for measuring expertise; science & the good society

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Professor Colin Crouch FBA

The economic sociology of Europe, including central and eastern Europe, with particular reference to work, industrial relations, and related social policies; problems of neoliberalism and contemporary capitalism

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Professor Jane Mansbridge FBA

Democratic theory; the problem of legitimate coercion, understood through theories of negotiation, representation, deliberation and deliberative systems, participation, political equality, everyday activism, feminism, and public recognition of collective

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