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M. Kent Jennings

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of North Carolina

Department of Political Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
805-893-4260
jennings@polsci.ucsb.edu

Research Interests:

Jennings, now at U.C. Santa Barbara, was a member of the Political Science Department and the Institute for Social Research from 1963 to 1981 and then from 1984 to 1996, during which time he held a joint faculty appointment at U.C. Santa Barbara. He specializes in the areas of political socialization, gender and politics, political participation, and research design and data collection.  Jennings is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and served as president of the American Political Science Association and of the International Society of Political Psychology.  His publications as author or co-author include: Community Influentials, The Image of the Federal Service, The Political Character of Adolescence, Governing American Schools, Generations and Politics, Parties in Transition, and Continuities in Political Action.

Selected Publications

  • “Of Time and the Development of Partisan Polarization” (with Laura Stoker), American Journal of Political Science 52 (July 2008): 619-35.
  • “Perceptions of Injustice in the Chinese Countryside” (with Kuang-hui Chen), Journal of Contemporary China 17 (May 2008): 319-37. 
  • “The Gender Gap in Attitudes and Beliefs about the Place of Women in American Political Life: A Longitudinal, Cross-Generational Analysis,” Politics & Gender 2 (June 2006): 193-219.
  • “Political Similarity and Influence between Husbands and Wives” (with Laura Stoker) in Alan Zuckerman (ed.), The Social Logic of Politics.  Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2005, pp. 51-74.
  • “Generations, Political Status, and Collective Memories in the Chinese Countryside” (with Ning Zhang), Journal of Politics 67 (November 2005): 1164-89.
  • “Social Trust and Civic Engagement across Time and Generations” (with Laura Stoker), Acta Politica 39 (December 2004): 342-79.
  • “The Importance of Social and Political Context: The Case of AIDS” (with Ellen Andersen), Political Behavior 25 (June 2003): 177-99.
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