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Professor Jeffrey Karp
Professor - Comparative Politics

Marie Jahoda 214

  • Politics
  • Politics and History
  • Social and Political Sciences

Summary

Jeffrey Karp is a political scientist specialising in research on public opinion, elections, and political behaviour with over 20 years of experience in survey research. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Calfornia, Santa Barbara in 1995.

His research addresses questions about how institutions influence political attitudes and behaviour and examines such topics as electoral reform, political mobilization, gender and political leadership, popular support for direct democracy, and attitudes about European integration. He has published in nearly all of the major international journals in the discipline, including the British Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion QuarterlyJournal of Politics, Comparative Political StudiesElectoral Studies, and Political Psychology. In the late 1990s he served as a co-investigator on the to gather data to examine the effects of electoral system change after New Zealand replaced its first past the post (FPP) electoral system with a Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) system in 1996. Since then he has designed and carried out surveys in the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, and Australia. He is a member of the advisory board of the . 

He is currently a Visiting Professor at Luiss University in Rome. In 2015-16, he was a visiting fellow with the , based at the University of Sydney and carried out a three wave panel survey for the Australian Electoral Commission. are helping to inform the debate about how to modernise the electoral process and improve the voter experience in Australia.

Responsibility

Comparative Politics and Quantitative Methods

Newest selected publications

Verhulsdonk, I., Nai, A. and Karp, J. (2022) ''. Political Research Quarterly, 75 (3). pp. 720 - 737. ISSN: 1065-9129

Journal article

Nicholson, SP., Carman, C., Coe, C., Fenney, A., Feher, B., Hayes, B., et al. (2018) ''. Advances in Political Psychology, 39 (1). pp. 279 - 304. ISSN: 0162-895X

Journal article

Karp, JA., Nai, A. and Norris, P. (2018) ''. Electoral Studies, 53. pp. 11 - 19. ISSN: 0261-3794

Journal article

Donovan, T. and Karp, J. (2017) ''. European Journal of Political Research, 56 (3). pp. 469 - 486. ISSN: 0304-4130

Journal article

Karp, JA. and Lühiste, M. (2016) ''. Public Opinion Quarterly, 80 (3). pp. 666 - 693. ISSN: 0033-362X

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More publications(30)

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