Professor Jennifer Hudson

Professor of Political Behaviour & Dean, UCL Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences

Email: jennifer.hudson@ucl.ac.uk
EA: shs.dean@ucl.ac.uk 
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Biography

Jennifer Hudson is Professor of Political Behaviour, Dean for the Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences, and Acting Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion at UCL. She is also the Director of the Development Engagement Lab (DEL), a multi-country research programme working in partnership with over 30 international development NGOs and government ministries to analyse and understand public support for aid and sustainable development. 

Professor Hudson earned a PhD (MA) in Political Science from the University of California Riverside, and a MA in Social Science from California State University, San Bernardino.

Professor Hudson co-hosted our podcast "UCL Uncovering Politics" between 2020 and 2021. You can listen to her here:
S2 Ep10 | Ideas of Democracy
S2 Ep2 | Trump's Legacy and the Biden Presidency

Research

She has published on a wide range of topics analysing elite and mass political behaviour, including public opinion and engagement with development; support for foreign aid; and parliamentary campaigns and elections. Jennifer’s research has been funded by the Gates Foundation, Economic and Social Research Council, Danish Council for Independent Research, Nuffield Foundation and Leverhulme Trust.

Publications

Journal articles

• 2021. 'Human Rights Violations, Political Conditionality and Public Attitudes to Foreign Aid: Evidence from Survey Experiments' Political Studies
• 2020. 'A Populist Paradox? How Brexit Softened Anti-Immigration Attitudes.' British Journal of Political Science.
• 2020. 'Not one, but many publics: Public engagement with global development.' Development in Practice. 
• 2019. 'Making and unmaking cosmopolitans: An experimental test of the mediating role of emotions in international development appeals.' Social Science Quarterly.
• 2019. 'Two Strategies for Building a Personal Vote: Personalized representation in the UK and Denmark.' Electoral Studies. 
• 2019. 'Which personality fits personalised representation?' Party Politics.
• 2017. 'All change in the House? The profile of candidates and MPs in the 2015 British general election.' Parliamentary Affairs: devoted to all aspects of parliamentary democracy. 
• 2017. 'We Spend How Much? Misperceptions, Innumeracy, and Support for the Foreign Aid in the United States and Great Britain.' Journal of Experimental Political Science. 
• 2015. 'Tweeting Alone? An Analysis of Bridging and Bonding Social Capital in Online Networks.' American Politics Research., 43 (4), 708-738. 
• 2013. 'Parties heed (with caution): Public knowledge of and attitudes towards party finance in Britain.' Party Politics, 19 (1), 41-60.
• 2012. ‘Parties Heed (with caution): Public Knowledge of and Attitudes towards Party Finance in Britain’ (with Justin Fisher). Party Politics.
• 2012. ‘A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep’: A Review and Critique of Extant Surveys on Public Opinion and Development (with D Hudson). International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning (4: 1):  5-23. 
• 2011. Newspaper Reporting and Public Perceptions of Party Finance in Britain: Knows Little, Learns Something? Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 21(4): 473-496.
• 2011. ‘The Americanization of British Politics? Trends in Negative Advertising, 1964-2005’. British Politics 6(1): 52-77.
• 2011. ‘Why Both Theory and Empirics Suggest there is More than One Form of Trust: A Reply to Hooghe’ (with Justin Fisher & Andrew Tucker). British Journal of Politics and International Relations 13(2): 276-281.
• 2010. ‘Does one Trust Judgement Fit All? Linking Theory and Empirics’ (with Justin Fisher & Andrew Tucker). British Journal of Politics and International Relations 12(2): 161-188.
• 2010. ‘The Influence of Promotional Activity and Different Electoral Systems on Voter Turnout: A Study of the UK and German Euro Elections’ (with Amy Whitelock & Jeryl Whitelock). European Journal of Marketing 44(3/4): 401-420. 
• 2009. ‘The Righteous Considereth the Cause of the Poor’? Public Attitudes towards Poverty in Developing Countries’ (with David Hudson). Political Studies 58(3): 389-409.
• 2007. ‘Parties in an Anti-Party State: The Case of California’. (with Shaun Bowler) Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties 17(2): 143-163.
• 2006. ‘Barriers to Participation, Voter Sophistication, and Candidate Spending Choices in U.S. Senate Elections’ (with Martin Johnson & Shaun Bowler). British Journal of Political Science 36(4): 745-758.

Book chapters

• 2019. 'International Development NGOs, Fundraising Appeals, and Public Attitudes of UK-Africa Relations.' In D. Beswick, J. Fisher, G. Harrison (Eds.), Britain and Africa in the 21st Century: Between Ambition and Pragmatism. Manchester University Press.
• 2018. 'Political knowledge: Measurement, misinformation and turnout.' In J. Fisher,, E. Fieldhouse, M. Franklin, R. Gibson, M. Cantijoch, C. Wlezien (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion (pp. 369-382). Routledge.
• 2018. 'Political Recruitment Under Pressure: MPs and candidates.' In P. Cowley, D. Kavanagh (Eds.), The British General Election of 2017. Basingstoke: Palgrave. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95936-8
• 2014. 'Conclusions: A very British episode?' The Political Costs of the 2009 British MPs' Expenses Scandal (pp. 196-203). doi:10.1057/9781137034557_10
• 2014. 'Information matters: Public support for overseas aid.' In P. Cowley, R. Ford (Eds.), Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box (pp. 29-32). Biteback.
• 2014. 'Should i stay or should i go? The impact of the expenses scandal on MPs’ decisions to stand down.' The Political Costs of the 2009 British MPs' Expenses Scandal (pp. 62-87). doi:10.1057/9781137034557_4
• 2014. 'The 2009 British MPs’ expenses scandal: Origins, evolution and consequences.' The Political Costs of the 2009 British MPs' Expenses Scandal (pp. 1-26). doi:10.1057/9781137034557_1
• 2011. ‘Playing by the Rules: The 2009 MPs’ Expenses Scandal’. In Dominic Wring, Roger Mortimore and Simon Atkinson, eds., Political Communication in Britain: The Leader Debates, the Campaign and the Media in the 2010 General Election (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan), pp. 241-260.
• 2010. ‘Campaign Advertising’, in The Encyclopedia of Political Science, George Thomas Kurian, James E. Alt, Simone Chambers, Geoffrey Garrett, Margaret Levi, and Paula D. McClain (eds). Washington, DC: CQ Press.
• 2007. ‘Party Advertising in the 2005 British General Election’. In Dominic Wring, Jane Green, Roger Mortimore, and Simon Atkinson (eds.) Political Communications. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 65-78. [ISBN: 978-0-230-00130-5]
• 2005. ‘The Politics of Electoral Systems: The United States’. (with Shaun Bowler & Todd Donovan). In Michael Gallagher and Paul Mitchell (eds.) The Politics of Electoral Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 185-205.

Book

• 2014. 'The political costs of the 2009 British MPs’ expenses scandal.' Palgrave Macmillan, London