Jane Green

Jane Green is a Professor of Political Science and British Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford, where she is also a professorial fellow of Nuffield College. At Oxford, Green is a co-director of the British Election Study and director of a research centre focusing on accountability, representation, British elections, and political science communication beyond academia.

Her area of research is primarily concerned with assessing the relationship between policy and performance and political attitudes and vote choice.

Green is co-author (with the British Election Study team), of Electoral Shocks: Understanding the Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World. This book explains how the British party system is destabilizing due to the combination of electoral shocks and over time increases in underlying electoral volatility. Green is also co-author, with Will Jennings, of The Politics of Competence: Parties, Public Opinion and Voters, which shows how shocks cause substantial changes to party policy reputations, how voters generalise competence assessments across the policy agenda, and how governments suffer costs of ruling due to predictable over-time dynamics in the attribution of blame.

Green is also a media commentator provided commentary and analysis on public opinion in the United Kingdom, elections in the U.S. and the U.K., and British politics.