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Overview

James Tilley is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the broad domain of Social Sciences, with a strong focus on Political Science and International Relations as well as Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's recent work spans multiple topics, including Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, Social and Cultural Dynamics, Social Policy and Reform Studies, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Gender Politics and Representation, and Migration, Refugees, and Integration.

Tilley has contributed to a number of scholarly articles published in notable academic journals and venues. These include:

  • "Divided by the Vote: Affective Polarization in the Wake of the Brexit Referendum," 2020, British Journal of Political Science
  • "The Polarizing Effect of Partisan Echo Chambers," 2023, American Political Science Review
  • "Does Class-Based Campaigning Work? How Working Class Appeals Attract and Polarize Voters," 2020, Comparative Political Studies
  • "The Perception of the Legitimacy of Citizens' Assemblies in Deeply Divided Places? Evidence of Public and Elite Opinion from Consociational Northern Ireland," 2021, Government and Opposition
  • "Policy Preferences and Policy Legitimacy After Referendums: Evidence from the Brexit Negotiations," 2020, Political Behavior

Frequent co-authors collaborating with James Tilley include:

  • Sara B. Hobolt
  • Thomas J. Leeper
  • Katharina Lawall
  • Edwina Kelly
  • Joshua Robison

The scholar has been published multiple times in established venues, notably Harvard Dataverse, where they have 32 publications, British Journal of Political Science and Political Behavior with 2 publications each, as well as contributions to the American Political Science Review and Comparative Political Studies.

Best Publications

  • Fleeing the centre: the rise of challenger parties in the aftermath of the euro crisis

    Sara B. Hobolt;James Tilley

  • Measuring Subgroup Preferences in Conjoint Experiments

    Thomas J. Leeper;Sara B. Hobolt;James Tilley

  • Is the Government to Blame? An Experimental Test of How Partisanship Shapes Perceptions of Performance and Responsibility

    James Tilley;Sara B. Hobolt

  • A Vote Against Europe? Explaining Defection at the 1999 and 2004 European Parliament Elections

    Sara B. Hobolt;Jae-Jae M. Spoon;James R. Tilley

  • The New Politics of Class

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

    Geoffrey Evans;James Tilley

  • Divided by the Vote: Affective Polarization in the Wake of the Brexit Referendum

    Sara B. Hobolt;Thomas J. Leeper;James Tilley

  • Blaming Europe?: Responsibility Without Accountability in the European Union

    Sara B. Hobolt;James Tilley

  • Clarity of responsibility: How government cohesion conditions performance voting

    Sara B. Hobolt;James Tilley;Susan A. Banducci

  • Blaming Europe?

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

    Geoffrey Evans;James Tilley

  • Political Knowledge and Enlightened Preferences: Party Choice Through the Electoral Cycle

    Robert Andersen;James Tilley;Anthony F. Heath

  • Ageing and generational effects on vote choice: Combining cross-sectional and panel data to estimate APC effects

    James Tilley;Geoffrey Evans

  • The Depoliticization of Inequality and Redistribution: Explaining the Decline of Class Voting

    Geoffrey Evans;James Tilley

  • The Attribution of Credit and Blame to Governments and Its Impact on Vote Choice

    Michael Marsh;James Tilley

  • The Macroeconomic Factors Conditioning the Impact of Identity on Attitudes towards the EU

    John Garry;James Tilley

  • British National Identity and Attitudes towards Immigration

    Anthony F. Heath;James R. Tilley

  • Who’s in Charge? How Voters Attribute Responsibility in the European Union

    Sara B. Hobolt;James Tilley

  • Political generations and partisanship in the UK, 1964–1997

    James Tilley

  • The decline of British national pride.

    James Tilley;Anthony Heath

  • Research Note: Libertarian-Authoritarian Value Change in Britain, 1974–2001

    James R. Tilley

  • Listening to the Government: How Information Shapes Responsibility Attributions

    Sara B. Hobolt;James Tilley;Jill Wittrock

  • Golden halos and forked tails: The attribution of credit and blame to governments and its impact on vote choice

    Michael Marsh;James Tilley

Frequent Co-Authors

Sara B. Hobolt
Sara B. Hobolt London School of Economics and Political Science
Geoffrey M. Evans
Geoffrey M. Evans University of Newcastle Australia
Anthony Heath
Anthony Heath University of Oxford
Jae-Jae Spoon
Jae-Jae Spoon University of Pittsburgh
Susan Banducci
Susan Banducci University of Exeter
Michael Marsh
Michael Marsh Trinity College Dublin
Robert Ford
Robert Ford University of Manchester
Christopher Wlezien
Christopher Wlezien The University of Texas at Austin
David M. Farrell
David M. Farrell University College Dublin

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