Geoffrey Evans

11.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
120 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Geoffrey Evans is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Geoffrey Evans has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 72 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 14 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Geoffrey Evans's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (48 papers), Social Policy and Reform Studies (39 papers) and Social and Cultural Dynamics (26 papers). Geoffrey Evans is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (48 papers), Social Policy and Reform Studies (39 papers) and Social and Cultural Dynamics (26 papers). Geoffrey Evans collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Geoffrey Evans's co-authors include Stephen Whitefield, John Durant, Anthony Heath, Robert Andersen, Geoffrey Thomas, James Tilley, Mark Pickup, Colin Mills, Mansur Lalljee and Terry Nichols Clark and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and World Development.

In The Last Decade

Geoffrey Evans

117 papers receiving 5.1k citations

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The Brexit realignment amid electoral volatility: The role of party blocs in the 2024 General Election 2025 ·Parliamentary Affairs ·J. D. Griffiths, (unknown), Edward Fieldhouse, Christopher Prosser, Jane Green, Jonathan Mellon, (unknown), Geoffrey Evans	0
2	The changing class and educational composition of the UK political elite since 1945: implications for representation 2024 ·British Politics ·Erzsébet Bukodi, Geoffrey Evans, John H. Goldthorpe, (unknown)	5
3	The COVID-19 Pandemic in Britain: A Competence Shock and Its Electoral Consequences 2024 ·Political Studies ·Jane Green, Geoffrey Evans, (unknown)	0
4	Volatility, Realignment, and Electoral Shocks: Brexit and the UK General Election of 2019 2023 ·PS Political Science & Politics ·Edward Fieldhouse, Geoffrey Evans, Jane Green, Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser, (unknown)	6
5	Electoral Shocks 2019 ·Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Geoffrey Evans, Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser, Hermann Schmitt, Cees van der Eijk	34
6	Brexit or Corbyn? Campaign and Inter-Election Vote Switching in the 2017 UK General Election 2018 ·Parliamentary Affairs ·Jonathan Mellon, Geoffrey Evans, Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Christopher Prosser	39
7	Core Political Values and the Long-Term Shaping of Partisanship 2018 ·British Journal of Political Science ·Geoffrey Evans, Anja Neundorf	37
8	In the eye of the beholder: What determines how people sort others into social classes? 2018 ·Social Science Research ·Rune Stubager, James Tilley, Geoffrey Evans, Joshua Robison, Gitte Sommer Harrits	12
9	Secularization versus religious revival in Eastern Europe: Church institutional resilience, state repression and divergent paths 2015 ·Social Science Research ·(unknown), Geoffrey Evans	22
10	Belonging But Not Believing (Strongly): Examining the Political Implications of the Resurgence of Orthodoxy in Post-Soviet Russia 2011 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Geoffrey Evans, (unknown)	1
11	How Parties Shape Class Politics: Explaining the Decline of the Class Basis of Party Support 2011 ·British Journal of Political Science ·Geoffrey Evans, James Tilley	123
12	Political generations in Northern Ireland 2010 ·European Journal of Political Research ·James Tilley, Geoffrey Evans	25
13	Endogenizing Social Trust: Democratization in East-Central Europe 2005 ·British Journal of Political Science ·Natalia Letki, Geoffrey Evans	73
14	Who Blairs wins? Leadership and voting in the 2001 election 2003 ·Robert Andersen, Geoffrey Evans	15
15	Britain and Europe: Separate Worlds of Welfare? 1998 ·Government and Opposition ·Geoffrey Evans	12
16	Why are the Young more Postmaterialist? 1996 ·Comparative Political Studies ·Nan Dirk de Graaf, Geoffrey Evans	57
17	Is gender on the ‘new agenda’? 1993 ·European Journal of Political Research ·Geoffrey Evans	13
18	Identifying the Bases of Party Competition in Eastern Europe 1993 ·British Journal of Political Science ·Geoffrey Evans, Stephen Whitefield	180
19	A Tactical Error in the Analysis of Tactical Voting: A Response to Niemi, Whitten and Franklin 1993 ·British Journal of Political Science ·Geoffrey Evans, Anthony Heath	49
20	Planning for the old and very old 1979 ·BMJ ·David Jolley, Geoffrey Evans, (unknown), (unknown), David Wilkin	3

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