Last updated: 01/01/2017

Telephone: 0044 7543125962

​james.dennison@eui.eu

James Dennison

Research Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute, Florence

Author: The Greens in British Politics: Protest, Anti-Austerity and the Divided Left​

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Publications

• Dennison, J. (2018), 'The rug pulled from under them: UKIP and the Greens in 2017' in Parliamentary Affairs
  

• ​Birch, S. & Dennison, J. (2017), 'How protest voters choose' in Party Politics
  

• Dennison, J. & Draege, J. (2017), 'Making Sense of the 2016 Italian Constitutional Referendum' in Mediterranean Politics
  

• Dennison, J. & Goodwin, M. (2018, forthcoming), ‘The Radical Right in the United Kingdom’ in eds. Rydgren, J. The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  

• Evans, G., Carl, N. and Dennison, J. (2017, forthcoming) 'Brexit: The Causes and Consequences of the UK's decision to leave the EU' in Crises of Europe

• Dennison, J (2016) ​​The Greens in British Politics: Protest, Anti-Austerity and the Divided Left, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

• Dennison, J (2015) ‘The Other Insurgency? The Greens and the Election’ in Parliamentary Affairs, 68 (1): 188-205

• Dennison, J and Goodwin, M (2015) ‘Immigration, Issue Ownership and the Rise of UKIP’ in Parliamentary Affairs, 68 (1): 168-187

Papers under review

• 'Electoral Dynamics in Singapore'
  

• 'Re-specifying the relationship between values and attitudes to immigration'
  

• 'An Explanation for Brexit' with Professor Geoff Evans and Noah Carl

• 'Resources and Within-Individual Variation in Voter Turnout'
  

• ​'Mobilisation and Within-Individual Variation in Voter Turnout'
  

• 'Socialisation and Within-Individual Variation in Voter Turnout'
  

• 'Political Psychology and Within-Individual Variation in Voter Turnout'
  

​Research in Progress

• 'Habit and Voter Turnout'

• 'The Rational Choice Model and within individual variation in voter turnout'

• ​'Terrorist attacks and attitudes to immigration'
  

• 'Attitudes to immigration in Singapore'

• 'Explaining Attitudes to Immigration in Europe' with Professor Andrew Geddes
  

• 'Europhoria, 1986 - 1992: Explaining Britain's Pro-European Moment'

Teaching

• Joint Research Centre Summer School: 'Evidence for Policy' - Lecturer, 2017

• ​Migration Policy Centre Summer School - Lecturer, 2017

• POL229 - Political Analysis: Research Design and Data Analysis, University of Sheffield, Autumn 2015

Research Projects

• ​Research Assistant, The UK in a Changing Europe, ESRC Project, Chatham House

• ​Research Assistant,  UKIP: Inside the Campaign to Redraw the Map of British Politics, British Academy funded

• UK Team Leader, EUandI

Blog posts and press​

• The Causes of Brexit - television interview for Lithuanian current affairs programme Savaite
  

• ​The Dutch aren’t turning against immigration – the salience of the immigration issue is what drives Wilders’ support, LSE Europp
  

• Italianos votam em referendo que pode levar à queda de premiê, Folha de São Paulo
  

• ​Voor betere grondwet (of tegen Renzi), De Volksrant
  

• Stemmen over wet is stemmen over Renzi, De Morgen

• La London School scommette sulla vittoria del No, La Repubblica
  

• ​Unless the Yes campaign can shift tactics, Italy’s constitutional referendum is heading for a No vote, LSE EUROPP
  

• The Ultimate Causes of Brexit: History, Culture and Geography, LSE British Politics and Policy
  

• A Long Time Coming: Brexit and What Happens Next, LSE BrexitVote
  

• What next for the Greens? The Green Party after Natalie Bennett, LSE British Politics and Policy
  

• The Green Surge and how it changed the membership of the Party, LSE British Politics and Policy
  

• ​Portugal's change of government puts the country firmly in uncharted territory, LSE EUROPP
  

• The EU Referendum in Northern Ireland: Good Europeans or sectarian politics as usual?, LSE BrexitVote
  

• How Portugal's election resembled the UK's general election and what both contests indicate about European politics, LSE EUROPP

• Populist personalities: The Big Five Personality Traits and the 2015 UK General Election, LSE British Politics and Policy

• Why preventing a Brexit is by no means a done deal, London Evening Standard

• ​From Devo-Max to West Lothian Max, LSE British Politics and Policy

• A Lib-Lab Coalition is Perfectly Possible, with the SNP as the Silent Partner, LSE General Election 2015

• The Loser Takes it All – The SNP After the Referendum, LSE General Election 2015

• Green Party Voters Look Like Lib Dems, think like Labour voters and are as dissatisfied as ‘Kippers, LSE British Politics and Policy

• UKIP- A flash-in-the-pan or a long term insurgent?  Ballots and Bullets

• An English Parliament: The Best Way to Save the UK? Open Democracy

• Though the Green Party’s popularity may continue to rise, it is too ideological to become a ‘UKIP of the left’, LSE British Politics and Policy

• Carswell’s defection to UKIP will harm Cameron because it was based on principle, but don’t expect other Eurosceptics to follow, LSE British Politics and Policy

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