I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Nuffield Politics Research Centre at the University of Oxford.
I am interested in understanding why people think the way they do about inequality, the welfare state, immigration, the environment, and ‘wokeness’ in Britain and other advanced democracies. I do this by analysing quantitative survey and contextual data, as well as through the use of experiments.
In addition, I am also interested in explaining why and how party systems change overtime and, in particular, how we can best understand the growth of relatively 'new' political organisations, such as the Greens and modern nationalist parties.
I am currently the recipient of a British Academy-funded Fellowship that aims to understand attitudes to intergenerational inequality and age-related welfare state reforms, working alongside Professors Jane Green and Geoffrey Evans.
My work has been published in the academic journals Comparative Political Studies, Party Politics, West European Politics, and the British Journal of Political Science.
Research
My research interests include:
- British politics,
- Elections and electoral politics,
- Comparative Politics and Government,
- Elections,
- Political Parties.
Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles
Grant, Zack P. and Geoffrey Evans. 2023. 'A New Dilemma of Social Democracy? The British Labour Party, the White Working Class and Ethnic Minority Representation'. British Journal of Political Science.
Grant, Zack P. and James Tilley 2023. ‘Why the Left Has More to Lose from Ideological Convergence than the Right’. Party Politics. 29 (5): 803-816.
Grant, Zack P. 2021. ‘Crisis and Convergence: How the Combination of a Weak Economy and Mainstream Party Ideological De-Polarisation Fuels Anti-System Support’. Comparative Political Studies 54 (7): 1256-1291.
Grant, Zack P. and James Tilley. 2019. ‘Fertile Soil: Explaining Variation in the Success of Green Parties’. West European Politics 42 (3): 495-516.
Reports
Grant, Zack P., Jane Green, and Geoffrey Evans. 2023. Family Matters: How Concerns for Younger Relatives Bridge Generational Divides. London: Resolution Foundation.
Working Papers
Grant, Zack P., Jane Green, and Geoffrey Evans. 2023. `Family Matters: How Concerns about the Financial Wellbeing of Younger Relatives Shape the Political Preferences of Older Adults'.
