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Dr Jack Blumenau
Room:听2.06, 36-38 Gordon Square
Email:听j.blumenau@ucl.ac.uk
Biography
I am an Associate Professor of Political Science and Quantitative Research Methods at 皇家华人, and I am also Programme Director for the MSc Data Science and Public Policy. I received my PhD from the Department of Government at London School of Economics听in 2016. I am currently a member of the UK Cabinet Office鈥檚 Trial Advice Panel, and I was previously a Data Science Advisor to YouGov.
Research
My research addresses questions about what voters want, how politicians act, and how these preferences and behaviours interact to affect electoral outcomes and political representation in democratic systems. In my research, I employ creative research designs in which I develop and apply state-of-the-art quantitative methods to answer important questions in the fields of legislative politics, electoral politics,听and public opinion.
Publications
- Journal articles
2022
- Hargrave, L. and听Blumenau, J. (2022)听鈥樷��, British Journal of Political Science, 52(4),听pp. 1584鈥�1601.
- Blumenau, J. and听Lauderdale, B. (2022)听鈥樷��,听American Journal of Political Science.
2021
- Blumenau, J., Lauderdale, B. and听Barnes, L. (2021)听鈥樷��,听American Journal of Political Science, 66(1), pp. 205鈥�221.
2020
- Blumenau, J., Lauderdale, B., Bailey, D. and听Rivers, D. (2020)听鈥樷��,听International Journal of Forecasting, 36(2), pp. 399鈥�413.
- Blumenau, J. (2020)听鈥樷��,听Legislative Studies Quarterly, 46(4), pp. 899鈥�920.
2019
- Blumenau, J. (2019)听鈥樷��,听British Journal of Political Science, 51(2), pp. 750鈥�771.
2018
- Blumenau, J. and听Lauderdale, B. (2018)听鈥樷��,听Journal of Politics, 80(2).
2017
- Blumenau, J., Eggers, A. C., Hangartner, D. and听Hix, S. (2017)听鈥樷��,听British Journal of Political Science, 47(4), pp. 809鈥�827.
- Book chapters
- Blumenau, J. and听Damiani, R. (2021) 鈥樷��, in H. B盲ck, M. Debus and J. Fernandes (eds.)听The Politics of Legislative Debate. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Teaching
At 皇家华人 I have taught a series of quantitative methods modules to our (excellent) undergraduate and postgraduate students. This includes 鈥業ntroduction to Quantitative Methods鈥�, 鈥楥ausal Inference鈥� and 鈥楺uantitative Text Analysis for Social Science'. This year I will also be teaching a module entitled 鈥楶olitical Representation鈥�.听
I am also Programme Director for the MSc Data Science and Public Policy, which is a joint degree programme delivered between the UCL Departments of Political Science and Economics. Finally, I supervise PhD students working in the areas of political behaviour and quantitative methods.