Professor Jane Gingrich

Background

I hold a BA from Queen’s University, in Kingston Ontario and a MA and PhD from the University of California Berkeley. Before joining Magdalen College, I taught at the University of Minnesota.

Undergraduate Teaching

I teach courses in comparative politics, political sociology, European politics, and social policy.

Research Interests

My main research interests involve comparative political economy and comparative social policy. In particular, I am interested in contemporary restructuring of the welfare state, and the politics of institutional change more broadly. I am currently working on a project examining how the introduction of market-oriented reforms in state services has altered citizen and group attitudes towards government.

Selected Publications

• 2016 – Jane Gingrich and Sara Watson. Privatizing Participation? The Impact of Private Welfare Provision on Democratic Accountability.” Politics and Society.
• 2015 – Jane Gingrich and Silja Häusermann. ‘The decline of the working-class vote, the reconfiguration of the welfare support coalition and consequences for the welfare state.’ Journal of European Social Policy. 25: 50-75.
• 2015 – Jane Gingrich. ‘Varying Costs to Change? Institutional Change in the Public Sector.’ Governance. 28, 1: 41-60.
• 2015 – Jane Gingrich. ‘Coalitions, Policies and Distribution: Esping-Andersen’s Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism.’ in Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis. Editors: James Mahoney and Kathleen Thelen. Cambridge University Press.
• 2015 – Ben Ansell and Jane Gingrich. ‘The dynamics of social investment: human capital, activation, and care.’ in The Politics of Advanced Capitalism. Editors: Pablo Beramendi, Silja
• 2014 – Jane Gingrich. ‘Visibility, Values, and Voters: The Informational Role of the Welfare State.’ Journal of Politics. 76, 2: 565-580.
• 2014 – Ben Ansell and Jane Gingrich. ‘Sorting for schools: housing, education and inequality.’ Socio-Economic Review. 12, 2: 329-351.
• 2014 – Jane Gingrich . ‘Structuring the Vote, Welfare Institutions and Value Based Vote Choices.’ in How Welfare States Shape Democratic Publics. Editors: Staffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann. Edwin Elgar.
• 2013 – Ben Ansell and Jane Gingrich. ‘A Tale of Two Trilemmas: Varieties of Higher Education and the Service Economy.’ in Political Economy of the Service Transition. Editor: Anne Wren. Oxford University Press.
• 2012 – Jane Gingrich and Ben Ansell. ‘Preferences in Context Micro Preferences, Macro Contexts, and the Demand for Social Policy.’ Comparative Political Studies. 45, 12: 1624-1654
• 2011 – Making Markets in the Welfare State: The politics of varying market reforms. Cambridge University Press.
• 2011 – Co-Edited, Social Policy in the Smaller European Unions States. Berghahn Books. With Gary Cohen, Ben Ansell and Robert Cox.