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JOWELL, Roger


Curriculum

Roger Jowell is the Director of National Social Research Centre, Britain's largest Not For Profit social research institute, which he co-founded as Social Community and Planning Research (SCPR) in 1969. SCPR changed names in 1999. Roger is also Visiting Professor of Social Research at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

The National Social Research Centre undertakes both academic social science research and a range of major government survey programs (such as the Health Survey for England, the British Crime Survey and the Survey of English Housing). Roger Jowell himself specializes in academic studies of voting behavior and attitude change (such as the British Election Studies, the British Social Attitudes series and the International Social Survey Program).

Roger Jowell lectures, broadcasts and writes widely in the field of socio-political studies and survey methods, having edited or written 20 books in as many years, among them well-known titles such as 'How Britain Votes', 'Labour's Last Chance?' and 'Survey Research Practice'.

He was co-responsible, with James Fishkin, for the first ever Deliberative Poll® in Britain in May 1994, and for the four subsequent British Deliberative Polls® that have taken place annually since then.

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Measuring the Emotional Economy in Europe

Is Social Capital trully a Weapon of Mass Construction?

Roger Jowell talked about social capital in his interesting paper. He argued that while the beneficial nature of accumulating social capital is almost taken as granted, there are types of accumulated trust that are not virtuous, but -- citing the Italian mafia -- are the "dark side" of social trust. He called the two types as "bridging" and "bonding" social capital. He suggested that there might be an intervening variable which could be referred to as "system sophistication" which in practice helps to determine the potential social and individual yield can be extracted acquired social capital.

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Selected Publications

Heath, A., Jowell, R. and Curtice, J. (1985) How Britain Votes, Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Heath, A., Jowell, R., Curtice, J., Evans, G., Field, J. and Witherspoon, S. (1991) Understanding Political Change, Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Heath, A., Jowell, R. and Curtice, J. (eds) (1994) Labour's Last Chance, Aldershot: Dartmouth.
Curtice, J. and Jowell, R. (1995) 'The sceptical electorate' in Jowell, R., Curtice, J., Park, A., Brook, L., Ahrendt, D. British Social Attitudes: the 12th Report, Aldershot: Dartmouth.

Halsey A H, Jowell R and Taylor B. (eds) (1995) The quality of life in London, Aldershot: Dartmouth
Jowell, R. and Park, A. (1996) 'Questioning British Attitudes' in Taylor, B. and Thomson, K. (eds) Understanding Change in Social Attitudes, Aldershot: Dartmouth.

Jowell, R., Curtice, J., Park, A., Brook, L., Thomson, K., Bryson C. (eds) British Social Attitudes: the 14th Report, Aldershot: Ashgate

Curtice, J. and Jowell, R. (1997) 'Trust in the political system' in Jowell, R., Curtice, J., Park, A., Brook, L. Thomson, K. and Bryson, C . British Social Attitudes: the 14th Report - The end of Conservative values?, Aldershot: Ashgate.

R Jowell, J. Curtice, A Park, L Brook, K Thomson, C Bryson (eds) (1998), British - and European - Social Attitudes: the 15th BSA Report - How Britain Differs, Aldershot: Ashgate.

R. Jowell, J. Curtice, A. Park and K. Thomson (eds) (1999 forthcoming), British Social Attitudes: the 16th report - Who Shares New Labour Values?, Aldershot: Ashgate.