Post: University Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science, Jesus College

Appointed: 2004

College: Jesus College

Phone No: (01865) 279756 -  Contact electronically

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Research Activities and Interests:

I work primarily in the fields of public opinion and electoral behaviour, with a focus on British politics. My main research to date centres upon models of generational political and social change, and the influence of political knowledge upon vote choice. Other research interests include Northern Irish politics, class voting, European Parliament elections and the sociology of religion.

Teaching Responsibilities:

Prelims Politics (lectures and tutorials for PPE/MHP).

Political Sociology (lectures and tutorials for PPE/MHP).

Comparative Government (tutorials for PPE/MHP).

Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences (lectures for all graduate social science students).

Applied Statistics for Social Scientists (classes for graduate politics students).

Previous Posts Held:

Prize research fellow in politics at Nuffield College, Oxford (2002-2004).

Post-doctoral fellow in politics at Trinity College, Dublin (2001-2002).

Publications:

Journal articles

Michael Marsh and James Tilley (2009) 'The attribution of credit and blame to governments and its impact on vote choice', British Journal of Political Science (forthcoming).

John Garry and James Tilley (2009) 'Attitudes towards European integration: Investigating East-West heterogeneity', Journal of European Integration 31(5): 537-549.

John Garry and James Tilley (2009) 'The macro economic factors conditioning the impact of identity on attitudes towards the EU', European Union Politics 10(3): 361-379.

Sara Hobolt, Jae-Jae Spoon and James Tilley (2009) 'A vote against Europe? Explaining defection at the 1999 and 2004 European Parliament elections', British Journal of Political Science 39(1): 93-115.

James Tilley, Geoff Evans and Claire Mitchell (2008) 'Consociationalism and the evolution of political cleavages in Northern Ireland, 1989-2004', British Journal of Political Science 38(4): 699-717.

Claire Mitchell and James Tilley (2008) 'Disaggregating conservative Protestant groups in Northern Ireland: Overlapping categories and the importance of a born-again self-identification', Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47(4): 734-748. 

James Tilley, John Garry and Tessa Bold (2008), 'Perceptions and reality: Economic voting at the 2004 European Parliament elections', European Journal of Political Research 47(5): 665-686.

James Tilley and Christopher Wlezien (2008) 'Does political information matter? An experimental test relating to party positions on European integration', Political Studies 56(1): 192-214.

James Tilley and Anthony Heath (2007) 'The decline of British national pride', British Journal of Sociology 58(4): 661-678.

James Tilley (2005) 'Contracts, compacts and control: New Labour and personal responsibility', Political Quarterly 76(2): 299-301.

Robert Andersen, James Tilley and Anthony Heath (2005) 'Political knowledge and enlightened preferences: Party choice through the electoral cycle', British Journal of Political Science 35(2): 285-302.

James Tilley (2005) 'Libertarian-authoritarian value change in Britain, 1974-2001', Political Studies 53(2): 442-453.

Anthony Heath and James Tilley (2005) 'British national identity and attitudes towards immigration', International Journal on Multicultural Societies 7(2): 119-132.

Claire Mitchell and James Tilley (2004) 'The moral minority: Evangelical Protestants in Northern Ireland and their political behaviour', Political Studies 52(2): 585-602.

James Tilley (2003) 'Secularisation and ageing in Britain: Does family formation cause greater religiosity?', Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42(2): 269-278.

John Garry and James Tilley (2003) 'Fianna Fail activists: Coalition preferences and policy priorities', Irish Political Studies 18(2): 82-88.

James Tilley (2003) 'Party identification in Britain: Does length of time in the electorate affect strength of partisanship?', British Journal of Political Science 33(2): 332-344.

James Tilley (2002) 'Is youth a better predictor of socio-political values than nationality?', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 580(1): 226-256.

James Tilley (2002) 'Political generations and partisanship in the UK, 1964-1997', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) 165(1): 121-135.

 

Book chapters

John Garry and James Tilley (2007) 'Public support for integration in the newly enlarged EU', in Michael Marsh, Slava Mikhaylov and Hermann Schmitt (eds) European Elections after Eastern Enlargement. Mannheim: CONNEX.

James Tilley, Anthony Heath and Sonia Exley (2004) 'Dimensions of British identity' in Alison Park, John Curtice, Katarina Thomson, Catherine Bromley and Miranda Phillips (eds), British Social Attitudes: The 21st Report. London: Sage.