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Biography

Will Jennings is ESRC / Hallsworth Research Fellow in Politics/IPEG. Before joining Manchester he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, working on government and public opinion, and completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford on the politics and administration of public celebrations. His current research considers governmental and organizational responses to risk in bidding for, planning and staging of the Olympic Games, for an ESRC Research Fellowship “Going for Gold: The Olympics, Risk and Risk Management”, as well as agenda-setting dynamics, as co-investigator on the ESRC-funded research project ‘Legislative Agendas in the UK’ (see www.policyagendas.org.uk).

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Research Interests

Research interests:

• macro-politics and responsiveness of government to public opinion
• bureaucratic control
  
• agenda-setting dynamics
• blame avoidance by public officeholders
• the politics and management of risk in mega-projects and mega-events
• political methodology (time series analysis in particular)

Current research projects

• ESRC Research Fellowship: “Going for Gold: The Olympics, Risk and Risk Management”
• ESRC Grant: “Legislative Agendas in the UK” (see www.policyagendas.org.uk) 

Recent and forthcoming publications

Will Jennings, 2008, ‘London 2012: Olympic Risk, Risk Management, and Olymponomics’, John Liner Review, 22(2): 39-45.

Will Jennings, ‘The Public Thermostat, Political Responsiveness and Error-Correction: Border Control and Asylum in Britain, 1994-2007’, forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science. 

Christopher Hood, Will Jennings, Brian Hogwood and Ruth Dixon (with Craig Beeston), ‘Testing Times: Exploring Staged Responses and the Impact of Blame Management Strategies in two Exam Fiasco cases’, forthcoming in the European Journal of Political Research. 

Peter John and Will Jennings, ‘Punctuations and Turning points in British Politics: the Policy Agenda of the Queen’s Speech, 1940-2005’, forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science. 

Will Jennings and Peter John, 2009, ‘The dynamics of political attention: public opinion and the Queen’s Speech in the United Kingdom’, forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science (October 2009), 53(4).

Sebastiaan Princen, Sylvain Brouard, Laura Chaques, Christoffer Green Pedersen, Will Jennings, and Peter John, n.d., ‘Multilevel Agenda Dynamics in EU Environmental Policy’, article forthcoming for the special issue ‘The Comparative Agendas Project: a new perspective for comparative politics’, Revue International de Politique Comparée.

Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Peter B. Mortensen, Gerard Breeman, Laura Chaques, Will Jennings, Peter John, Ana Palau, Arco Timmermans, n.d., ‘Comparing the government’s agenda: the Executive speeches in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Denmark, and Spain’, article forthcoming for the special issue ‘The Comparative Agendas Project: a new perspective for comparative politics’, Revue International de Politique Comparée.

Sylvain Brouard, Frank Baumgartner, Gerard Breeman, Christian Breunig, Laura Chaques, Martial Foucault, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Will Jennings, Peter John, Arco Timmermans, Frederic Varone, Stefaan Walgrave, John Wilkerson, Bryan Jones, n.d., ‘Studying Parliaments by their outputs: law production, institutional rules and parliamentary coalition’, article forthcoming for the special issue ‘The Comparative Agendas Project: a new perspective for comparative politics’, Revue International de Politique Comparée.

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