Colin Jennings obtained his PhD from Southampton University, his M.A. from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario and his BSc (Econ) from Queen's University, Belfast.
After completing his PhD in 2002, Colin was College Lecturer at The Queen's College, University of Oxford until his arrival at Strathclyde in 2007. His research area is Political Economics. Within this broad area his work splits into two branches. The first looks at conflict and the second at political competition and voting behaviour in stable constitutional democracies. Themes in his work are a) the sources of individual motivation (for example instrumental or expressive) in collective action, b) the heterogeneity of preferences (for example moderate or extreme) that are typically available when determining the political position taken by groups c) how motivation and heterogeneity of political preferences interact under different institutional arrangements and the implications of this for social welfare. |
