Geoff Evans (political scientist)

Geoffrey Evans is a University of Oxford Professor and Official Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College. Evans is a political scientist who has also held posts in psychology and sociology. An expert in elections, he is long-standing editor of the journal Electoral Studies. In 2013 he was appointed co-director of the British Election Study, the Scottish Referendum Study and the Northern Ireland Election Study. In 2016 he also became the director of the EU Referendum Study.

Selected publications

• Evans G. The End of Class Politics? Class Voting in Comparative Context, Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Evans G. & De Graaf, N.D. Political Choice Matters: Explaining the strength of class and religious cleavages in cross-national perspective, Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Evans G. & Tilley J. The New Class War: The Political Exclusion of the British Working Class, Oxford University Press, 2017.