Dr. Shaun Bevan

former staff
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
 
 

Research Interests

  • Substantive: Agenda-setting, public policy, interest groups, public opinion, political behavior, political dynamics, foreign policy
  • Methods: Statistics, time series analysis, event history analysis, panel data, formal modeling, measurement

Publications

(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)

Monographs

John, Peter, Anthony Bertelli, Will Jennings and Shaun Bevan (2013): Policy Agendas in British Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Comparative Studies of Political Agendas] more

Journal Articles

Bevan, Shaun, and Zachary Greene (2016): Looking for the Party? Partisan Effects on Issue Attention in UK Acts of Parliament. European Political Science Review, 8, issue 1, pp. 49-72. more
Bevan, Shaun, and Peter John (2016): Policy Representation by Party Leaders and Followers: What drives UK Prime Minister’s Questions?. Government and Opposition: an International Journal of Comparative Politics, 51, issue 1, pp. 59-83. more
Bevan, Shaun (2015): Bureaucratic Responsiveness: The Effects of Government, Public and European Attention on the UK Bureaucracy. Public Administration, 93, issue 1, pp. 139-158. more
Lovett, John, Shaun Bevan and Frank R. Baumgartner (2015): Popular Presidents Can Affect Congressional Attention, for a Little While. Policy Studies Journal, 43, issue 1, pp. 22-43. more
Bevan, Shaun, and Will Jennings (2014): Representation, Agendas and Institutions. European Journal of Political Research, 53, issue 1, pp. 37-56. more
Boydstun, Amber E., Shaun Bevan and Herschel F. Thomas III (2014): The Importance of Attention Diversity and How to Measure It. Policy Studies Journal, 42, issue 2, pp. 173-196. more
Bevan, Shaun (2013): Continuing the Collective Action Dilemma: The Survival of Voluntary Associations in the United States. Political Research Quarterly, 66, issue 3, pp. 545-558. more
Bevan, Shaun, Frank R. Baumgartner, Erik Johnson and John McCarthy (2013): Understanding Selection Bias, Time-Lags and Measurement Bias in Secondary Data Sources: Putting the Encyclopedia of Associations Database in Broader Context. Social Science Research, 42, issue 6, pp. 1750-1764. more
Jennings, Will, Stephen Farrall and Shaun Bevan (2012): The Economy, Crime and Time: an analysis of recorded property crime in England & Wales 1961-2006. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 40, issue 3, pp. 192-210. more
John, Peter, and Shaun Bevan (2012): What Are Policy Punctuations? Large Changes in the Legislative Agenda of the UK Government, 1911–2008. Policy Studies Journal, 40, issue 1, pp. 89-108. more

Conference Presentations

Atkinson, Mary Layton, Shaun Bevan and Laura Chaqués-Bonafont (2014): Gender and Issue Attention: Comparing Spain the United Kingdom and the United States. [72. Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., April 03rd to April 06th, 2014] more
Bevan, Shaun, Will Jennings and Mark Pickup (2014): Agendas and Representation in Oversight: an Analysis of Parliamentary Select Committees in Britain. [4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Edinburgh, June 19th to June 21st, 2014] more
Bevan, Shaun, Will Jennings and Christopher Wlezien (2014): An Analysis of the Public’s Personal, National and EU Priorities. [Annual Conference of the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP), Edinburgh, September 12th to September 14th, 2014] more
Bevan, Shaun (2014): Gone Fishing: the Creation of the Comparative Agendas Project Master Codebook. [ European Consortium of Political Research General Conference, Glasgow, September 03rd to September 06th, 2014] more
Bevan, Shaun, and Zachary Greene (2014): Shifting Issues or a Shuffled Organisation: The Effect of Partisan Transition on UK Statutory Instruments. [Political Science Association 64th Annual International Conference, Manchester, April 14th to April 16th, 2014] more
Greene, Zachary, Caterina Froio and Shaun Bevan (2014): The Electoral Consequences of Government Accountability. [110th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 28th to August 31st, 2014] more
Bevan, Shaun (2013): Bureaucratic Responsiveness: The Effects of Government, Public and European Attention on the UK Bureaucracy. [7th ECPR General Conference, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, September 04th to September 07th, 2013] more
Bevan, Shaun, and Will Jennings (2013): Dynamic Agenda Representation in Comparative Perspective. [3rd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Barcelona, June 20th to June 22nd, 2013] more
Bevan, Shaun, and Zachary Greene (2013): Maintaining Attention: Partisan Effects on Attention in UK Acts of Parliament. [Political Studies Association Conference, Cardiff, April 03rd, 2013] more
Bevan, Shaun, and Mona Krewel (2013): Responsive Elections: The Effect of Public Opinion on Political Campaigns. [Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 11th to April 14th, 2013] more
Bevan, Shaun (2013): Secondary Government Attention: UK Bureaucracy and Its European Focus. [Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 11th to April 14th, 2013] more
Froio, Caterina, Shaun Bevan and Will Jennings (2013): Party Mandates and the Politics of Attention: Party Platforms and the Policy Agenda in the UK. [Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) Annual Meeting, University of Antwerp, June 27th to June 29th, 2013] more
Greene, Zachary, and Shaun Bevan (2013): How Many Parties? A More Sensitive Approach to Measuring the Effective Number of Parties. [Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) Conference, Lancaster University, September 13th to September 15th, 2013] more
Krewel, Mona, and Shaun Bevan (2013): Responsive Elections: The Effect of Public Opinion on Political Campaigns. [66th Annual Conference “Revolutions in the Measurement of World Public Opinion” - World Association of Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), Boston, May 14th to May 16th, 2013] more
Krewel, Mona, and Shaun Bevan (2013): Responsive Elections: The Effect of Public Opinion on Political Campaigns. [6th Annual Conference of the Comparative Policy Agendas Project (CAP), Antwerpen, June 27th to June 29th, 2013] more
Bevan, Shaun, Enrico Borghetto and Marcello Carammia (2012): Changing the Transmission Belt: The Programme-to-Policy Link in Italy between the First and Second Republic. [Società Italiana di Scienza Politica Conference, Rome, September 13th to September 15th, 2012] more
Bevan, Shaun, and Peter John (2012): Policy representation and Prime Minister's Questions: institutional rules and party politics in the United Kingdom.. [Annual European Political Science Association Conference, Berlin, June 14th to June 16th, 2012] more
Bevan, Shaun, and Will Jennings (2012): Representation, Agendas and Institutions. [Annual Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Conference, Oxford, September 07th to September 09th, 2012] more
John, Peter, Anthony Bertelli, Will Jennings and Shaun Bevan (2012): Policy Agendas in British Politics. [Annual Political Studies Association Conference, Belfast, UK, April 03rd to April 05th, 2012] more
Krewel, Mona, and Shaun Bevan (2012): CAPing the GLES. [5th Annual Conference of the Comparative Policy Agendas Project (CAP), Reims, June 14th to June 16th, 2012] more