Anthony F. Heath, FBA
Co-Director of CREST
Professor and Head
Department of Sociology, University of Oxford
Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College
Anthony Heath has been working on the establishment of
the new Department of Sociology at Oxford. This has left less time than usual for
academic research. His main research activities have been collaborative work
with Robert Andersen. They have been working on papers exploring the electoral
cycle, the contextual effects of social class, regional differences in voting
behaviour, and political knowledge. With other colleagues in CREST Anthony
Heath has also been successful in obtaining a grant from the ESRC to study
national identity and constitutional change in England (as part of the ESRC's
Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme).
Research interests
- Electoral behaviour, with a particular interest in the social bases of voting
- Sociology and politics of ethnicity and nationalism
- Social inequality
- Sociology of Education
Selected
Publications Andersen, R. and Heath, A. (in press, 2002) 'Class Matters: The Persisting Effects of Contextual Social Class on Individual Voting Behaviour in Britain, 1964-97', European Sociological Review. Andersen, R., Heath, A. and Sinnott, R. (in press, 2002) 'Political Knowledge and Electoral Choice', British Elections and Parties Review. Heath, A., Jowell, R. and Curtice, J. (2001) The Rise of New Labour: Party Policies and Voter Choices, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Heath, A., Taylor, B., Brook, L. and Park, A. (1999) ‘British national sentiment’, British Journal of Political Science.
Heath, A., Jowell, R. and Curtice, J. (eds) (1994) Labour’s Last Chance, Aldershot: Dartmouth.
De Graaf, N.D., Nieubeerta, P. and Heath, A. (1994) ‘Class mobility and political preferences: individual and contextual effects’, American Journal of Sociology, 100: 997-1027.
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Email:
anthony.heath@sociology.ox.ac.uk
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