Jane Gingrich’s research while affiliated with University of Oxford and other places

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Publications (49)


Who polarises? Who targets? Parties’ educational speech over the long run
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December 2024

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European Journal of Political Research

JANE GINGRICH

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ANJA GIUDICI

How do political parties speak about education? While struggles over education played a foundational role in structuring modern partisan cleavages, scholars debate the extent to which parties still adopt distinct rhetorical stances on education. Existing data, however, is limited to studying broad public support or opposition to educational expansion, restricting both our empirical knowledge of the politicisation of education and our ability to theorise parties’ incentives to speak publicly about it. This paper provides the first systematic examination of the post‐war evolution of partisan rhetoric about education in advanced democracies. We develop a novel dataset ( Education Politics Dataset EPD) based on hand‐coded manifesto speech of the largest centre‐left and centre‐right parties for 20 countries in Europe and beyond, from 1950 to the present. The EPD distinguishes nine educational issues, grouped under the three fundamental policy dimensions of distribution, governance and curricular content. We theorise that parties use educational speech both to signal competence to a broader electorate and to signal credibility to a narrower base. The result is three distinct patterns of speech: consensual, differentially salient and polarised. Where education policies cross‐cut existing cleavages, parties devote similar attention to issues and adopt similar stances, creating a consensual pattern. We find this pattern for issues of participation and quality in education. Where education policies are universal but offer specific benefits to a partisan base, we find patterns of differential salience: some parties devote more rhetorical attention to the issue than others, but parties adopt common stances. We find this pattern for questions of spending and access. Finally, where education policies align with broader political cleavages and provide targeted electoral benefits to partisan bases, parties adopt distinct public stances leading to more polarised rhetoric. We find this pattern for issues related to academic tracking and traditional curricular content. In developing the first multidimensional theorisation and measurement of partisan rhetoric on education, the paper provides insight into parties’ evolving approaches to an area increasingly crucial to electoral and social life.


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Do national innovation projects shape citizens' public health behaviours?
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August 2024

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Healthcare Management Forum

This article investigates whether, in the context of rising nationalism, drawing attention to national innovation strategies influences public health behaviours, particularly vaccine uptake. It draws on an original two-wave panel study of United Kingdom (UK) respondents during the COVID pandemic. The survey included an experimental design, which primed respondents with a nationalist framing of COVID-19 vaccines, drawing attention to the UK’s role in developing the AstraZeneca vaccine and in rapid approval and roll out of other vaccines. Our results show no significant impact of nationalist framing on vaccine willingness, even among those with nationalist or science-skeptical views. These findings suggest public health authorities should be cautious with nationalist framing, as it may be ineffective or counterproductive.

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Political inequality

July 2024

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Oxford Open Economics

The rise of economic inequality in the UK over the past four decades raises serious questions about the state of political equality in Britain. In this article, we analyse changes in political equality from voter participation to voting behaviour to the descriptive and substantive representativeness of Parliament. We find that voter participation in the electoral process has become substantially more unequal since the 1960s but that traditional geographic patterns of voting, where wealthier constituencies typically voted Conservative, have almost entirely vanished. Descriptively, Parliament has become more reflective in demographic and socio-economic terms of the population. In terms of substantive representation, policymaking in Britain has been more responsive to the interests of older homeowners than younger, less wealthy groups. Almost all British citizens nonetheless feel less represented by politicians and policymaking than they did several decades ago.




The Politics of Equality in Secondary Education Across Wealthy Postwar Democracies

October 2023

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The categories commonly mobilized to think about education have long been associated with the notion of the nation state and have functioned as obstacles, rather than resources, for our understanding of how globalization plays out in this particular field. In the last two decades, both social theory and comparative politics have attempted to overcome these limitations in their own way. Social theory increasingly acknowledged education as a global phenomenon. Theories have been developed to describe a global society evolving across borders. They show how, through processes that remain debated (cultural isomorphism, capitalism, functional differentiation), a number of structural and semantic evolutions have spread across education systems. Part I of this Handbook is dedicated to presenting, discussing, and comparing three such theories of globalization and their implications for our understanding of education and education policy. Comparative politics has for its part concerned itself with developing a more complex, less unified, and “transformationalist” view of the state by acknowledging the fragmentation and distribution of its functions among distinct domains and levels. Part II gravitates around this global constellation, with chapters focusing on global reforms, norms, and ideas put forward by supranational organizations, on international accountability processes and on the ways in which nation states or local actors adopt, implement, or resist global ideas and reforms. The two parts reflect these disciplinary approaches to the relation between globalization and education. Together, these two approaches seek to provide a comprehensive overview of how globalization and education interact to result in distinct and varying outcomes across world regions.



No Great Equalizer: Experimental Evidence on AI in the UK Labor Market

January 2023

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11 Citations

SSRN Electronic Journal



Education as a tool of social equality?

December 2022

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Social Policy & Administration

Do political parties approach education with different social policy aims? We argue that while parties have adopted a common language of equality as an aim of education, they draw on different conceptions of it linked to diverging social projects. To make this argument, we first normatively distinguish education as a tool for creating equal opportunity, equal outcomes, and representational diversity. We then draw on an original dataset coding the educational content in the political manifestos of the largest center‐left and center‐right party across 19 Western democracies from 1950 to present. The analysis shows that left parties emphasise more equality of outcome than rightwing parties and pay less attention to equality of opportunity, and that they associate equality‐related aims more extensively with promises of resources. These findings suggest that there remain critical differences in parties' understanding of education as a tool of social policy.


Citations (23)


... This highlights a beneficial aspect of social media: it provides an accessible information environment that allows politicians to gauge the salience of issues, particularly among citizens who follow them online. Yet, our results also highlight how social media may reinforce inequalities in representation (Ansell and Gingrich, 2024;Bartels, 2008). For instance, politicians' interpretation of public opinion can often be skewed toward the views of highly politically engaged citizens . ...

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All Talk, No Action? Politicians’ Agenda Responsiveness to Citizens’ Engagement on Social Media
Political inequality
  • Citing Article
  • July 2024

Oxford Open Economics

... There are also questions around the economics of the provision of Gen AI solutions versus the cost of the status quo. In addition, as highlighted by [7], there could be skill disparities among workers, affecting the impact of adoption and use of AI. ...

No Great Equalizer: Experimental Evidence on AI in the UK Labor Market

SSRN Electronic Journal

... Karena teori penerimaan teknologi dirancang untuk menguji kesiapan guru dan siswa untuk memasukkan media sosial ke dalam praktik belajar mengajar, tidak mengherankan jika teori-teori tersebut selaras dengan sikap terhadap media sosial sebagai alat bantu pembelajaran (Gingrich & Giudici, 2023). Namun, tampaknya penelitian akademis belum banyak mengalami kemajuan dalam hal memberikan kekuatan teoritis yang lebih baik untuk model pedagogis dan praktik pengajaran. ...

Education as a tool of social equality?

Social Policy & Administration

... Over the past 15 years, the welfare states have begun to profoundly transform through the introduction of digital technologies and infrastructures, often presented as measures to increase efficiency in public administration and increasingly considered as a governance reform (Yeung, 2018). Earlier research has addressed questions of digitalisation and welfare primarily as a challenge of how to meet new needs in highly digitised states and changing employment markets with digital automation (Busemeyer et al., 2022). This approach is complicated when the welfare state administration itself increasingly encompasses a plethora of different digital processes and technologies (Bullock, 2019). ...

Digitalization and the Welfare State
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  • March 2022

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Margarita Gelepithis

... Studies have also documented gender differences in attitudes toward free-market reforms (Mansfield et al., 2015). While a similar gender gap may exist in attitudes toward automation and AI, this possibility has not been investigated empirically (but see Gingrich and Kuo, 2022 for an analysis of how the relationship between automation risk and political preferences differs by gender). ...

Gender, Technological Risk, and Political Preferences
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  • April 2022

... The complex alignment between political parties and key stakeholders (Giudici et al., 2023) adds another layer of complexity. Formal or organic ties between the government, tasked with the implementation of reforms, and organizations representing the teaching profession are likely to condition the reception of attempted policy changes. ...

Center-Right Parties and Post-War Secondary Education
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  • January 2022

Comparative Politics

... 16 By focusing on those who develop intellectual property, this study analyzes changes in political behavior among the direct beneficiaries of the political movement to strengthen US and foreign patent law which unfolded between 1980 and 1994. 17 I argue that, irrespective of whether neoliberal policies produce ideal economic outcomes, their welldocumented (and in many cases expected) tendency to exacerbate inequality creates a special problem 13 Soskice (2022); Barnes (2022); Gingrich (2022). 14 Iversen and Soskice (2019); Short (2022). ...

Concentration and Commodification: The Political Economy of Postindustrialism in America and Beyond
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  • November 2021

... Thus, in Western Europe, identity issues have gained more prominence than before, although this shift has occurred relatively recently. Furthermore, along with the growing diversity of class-based constituencies, the education divide indicates the divergence of high-and low-educated voters' preferences across all dimensions of policy space (Ansell & Gingrich, 2021;Attewell, 2021;Beramendi et al., 2015). ...

The End of Human Capital Solidarity?
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  • July 2021

... S. Garritzmann (2020) recently extended these arguments, showing that the design of the respective education systems shapes political inequalities. Gingrich (2019) stretched the policy feedback arguments in yet another direction, studying whether education policies also affect political preferences more generally. ...

Schools and Attitudes Toward Economic Equality

Policy Studies Journal