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Geoffrey M. Evans is affiliated with the University of Newcastle Australia in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a strong emphasis on political science and international relations. The breadth of their work spans several interconnected subfields, including sociology and political science, gender studies, demography, and health.

Their main topics of study cover areas such as social policy and reform studies, electoral systems and political participation, populism and right-wing movements, intergenerational and educational inequality studies, political and economic history of the UK and US, social and cultural dynamics, as well as youth education and societal dynamics.

Evans has contributed to various academic journals and publication venues, frequently publishing in:

  • British Journal of Sociology
  • Political Studies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • West European Politics
  • PS Political Science & Politics

Among their notable recent publications are:

  • "Boris Johnson to the Rescue? How the Conservatives Won the Radical-Right Vote in the 2019 General Election," 2021, Political Studies
  • "The conditional politics of class identity: class origins, identity and political attitudes in comparative perspective," 2022, West European Politics

In addition to these, they are connected to other works including studies on social attitudes towards income inequality, electoral behavior, and political volatility. Co-authors frequently collaborating with Evans include Jane Green, Edward Fieldhouse, Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser, and Jack Bailey, together advancing research in political behavior and societal dynamics.

Evans's contributions encompass research on electoral systems and political participation, bringing insight into trends such as class identity politics, voter realignment, and the dynamics of populist movements. Their work integrates social policy considerations with empirical analysis of political events, including election outcomes and shifts in voter behavior.

Best Publications

  • The public understanding of science

    John R. Durant;Geoffrey A. Evans;Geoffrey P. Thomas

  • The End of Class Politics? : Class Voting in Comparative Context

    Geoffrey Evans

  • The Political Conditioning of Economic Perceptions

    Geoffrey Evans;Robert Andersen

  • The Politics and Economics of Democratic Commitment: Support for Democracy in Transition Societies

    Geoffrey Evans;Stephen Whitefield

  • Measuring left right and libertarian- authoritarian values in the British electorate

    Geoffrey Evans;Anthony Heath;Mansur Lalljee

  • The relationship between knowledge and attitudes in the public understanding of science in Britain

    Geoffrey Evans;John Durant

  • Identifying the Bases of Party Competition in Eastern Europe

    Geoffrey Evans;Stephen Whitefield

  • The Continued Significance of Class Voting

    Geoffrey Evans

  • The End of Class Politics

    Geoffrey Evans

  • Testing the validity of the Goldthorpe class schema

    Geoffrey Evans

  • The Measurement of Core Beliefs and Values: The Development of Balanced Socialist/Laissez Faire and Libertarian/Authoritarian Scales

    Anthony Heath;Geoffrey Evans;Jean Martin

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

    Geoffrey Evans;James Tilley

  • Extremist Outbidding in Ethnic Party Systems is Not Inevitable: Tribune Parties in Northern Ireland

    Paul Mitchell;Geoffrey Evans;Brendan O'Leary

  • Reversing the Causal Arrow: The Political Conditioning of Economic Perceptions in the 2000–2004 U.S. Presidential Election Cycle

    Geoffrey Evans;Mark Pickup

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

    Geoffrey Evans;Pippa Norris

  • Forecasting coal production until 2100

    S.H. Mohr;G.M. Evans

  • A Latent Class Analysis of the Criterion-Related and Construct Validity of the Goldthorpe Class Schema

    Geoffrey Evans;Colin Mills

  • How Parties Shape Class Politics: Explaining the Decline of the Class Basis of Party Support

    Geoffrey Evans;James Tilley

  • Improved methodology to determine the fate and transport of microplastics in a secondary wastewater treatment plant

    Subash Raju;Maddison Carbery;Aswin Kuttykattil;Kala Senthirajah

  • Endogenizing Social Trust: Democratization in East-Central Europe

    Natalia Letki;Geoffrey Evans

  • EUROPEAN PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE

    Martin Bauer;John Durant;Geoffrey Evans

  • The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies

    Geoffrey Evans;Robert Erikson;John H. Goldthorpe

Frequent Co-Authors

Nam-Trung Nguyen
Nam-Trung Nguyen Griffith University
Jan D. Miller
Jan D. Miller University of Utah
Gavin Mark Mudd
Gavin Mark Mudd RMIT University
Edward Bormashenko
Edward Bormashenko Ariel University
Bélinda Godel
Bélinda Godel Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Martin W. Bauer
Martin W. Bauer London School of Economics and Political Science
Lars Thomsen
Lars Thomsen Australian Synchrotron
George V. Franks
George V. Franks University of Melbourne
Paul C. Dastoor
Paul C. Dastoor University of Newcastle Australia
Robert Erikson
Robert Erikson Stockholm University

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