Department of Political Science
Matthew Wall
Ph.D Candidate
Matthew Wall
Contact Details
Address: Dept. of Political Science, 2-3 College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
Telephone: 00353 (0)1 896 3484; 00353 (0)85 385
Email: wallmt@tcd.ie or matthewtwall@gmail.com
Links: http://www.politicalreform.ie
Research Interests
Electoral systems and party systems, African politics, the internet and political communication, online campaigns, quantitative methods, voting advice application websites, institutional design and reform.
Publications
- Maria Laura Sudulich and Matthew Wall, ‘Keeping up with Murphys? Candidate cyber-campaigning in the 2007 Irish General Election’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 62, No. 3, 2009, pp. 456-475
Hyperlink: http://pa.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/62/3/456
- Matthew Wall, Conor Little, Maria Laura Sudulich, Ireland, in ‘European Parliament Elections 2009’, E-Book, forthcoming, September 2009.
Under Review
- Matthew Wall, Maria Laura Sudulich, Rory Costello and Enrique Leon, ‘Public opinion and the use of political websites: an analysis of political attitudes online and offline in Ireland’, accepted for publication with minor revisions, currently at final review stage: Information Polity.
- Maria Laura Sudulich and Matthew Wall, ‘"Every little helps". Cyber campaigning in the 2007 Irish General Election’, under revision, at third phase of revisions: Journal of Information Technology and Politics.
- Matthew Wall and Maria Laura Sudulich, ‘Matrix Revolutions? An analysis of party organization and ICT’, accepted for publication with minor revisions, currently at final review stage: Information, Communication and Society.
- Maria Laura Sudulich and Matthew Wall, ‘Research Note: Affective Perceptions of Left and Right in Irish Politics’, under review: Irish political Studies.
Working Papers
- Matthew Wall and Shane Mac Giollabhui, ‘Can Duverger’s Law Travel to Africa? A comparative study of the roles of social and institutional factors in African party system fragmentation.’
- Matthew Wall and Maria Laura Sudulich, ‘Research Note – Analysing Opposition Party Fragmentation in Africa’s Multiparty Democracies’
Professional Development
- June 2009 – Present: Dáil Eireann (Irish Parliament), All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution.
Rapporteur to the Committee for module on electoral system reform for Irish parliamentary elections.
- October 2007 – Present: Trinity College Dublin.
Lecturer: ‘Introduction to the Social Sciences (Political Science Module)’
- From October 2009: Trinity College Dublin.
Seminar convenor and website administrator: ‘Introduction to Political Science, Broad Curriculum’
- October 2005 – July 2009: Trinity College Dublin.
Teaching Assistant – Introduction to Political Science; Contemporary Political Theories
- December 2008 – June 2009: Kieskompas.
Member of the Irish team of ‘EU Profiler’ project, coding Irish party positions for voting advice application/party profiling website for the 2009 European Elections online at: http://euprofiler.eu/
- June 2007 – November 2007: Trinity College Dublin.
Irish Candidate Survey project coordinator in the Comparative Candidate Studies Project (CCSP). Survey design, implementation, distribution and coding. Principal Investigator - Professor Michael Marsh, TCD.
- May 2007 – October 2007: Research Assistant to Professor Michael Marsh.
Building and annotating a bibliography in EndNote format for ‘Living Review in EU Governance’; resulting in paper: ‘European parliament elections as second order national elections: a review of the evidence’
- May 2007 – July 2007: Co-creator of ‘pickyourparty.ie’:
The first voter assistance application site in the Republic of Ireland.
- January 2006 – July 2007: Research Assistant to Dr. Robert Thomson:
Funded by the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) research involved constructing original datasets on compliance of EU member states with a series of directives and on the negotiating positions of member states in Council discussions of a subset of those directives.
- November 2006 -December 2006: Research Assistant to Professor Kenneth Benoit. Compiling an annotated Endnote library on all publications pertaining to Duverger’s Law.
Professional Service
- Conference Organiser (with Jane Suiter and Elaine Byrne) and web administrator for:
Are Our Institutions Fit for Purpose? Political Reform in the Republic of Ireland. Conference held in Trinity College Dublin, June 22nd, 2009.
Conference website: politicalreform.ie
- Co-Convenor of the Political Studies Association of Ireland Specialist Group on Institutional Reform.
- Presenter on ‘Political Parties and Elections 1’ and ‘Political Parties and Elections 2’ panels at 2008 Political Studies Association of Ireland conference, Galway, Ireland, 17-19 October 2008.
- ECPR Joint Sessions, workshop on ‘The Numbers we use, the World we See’: Evaluating Cross-National Datasets in Comparative Politics’, Rennes, France, 11–16 April 2008:
Presenter: ‘A look at the “Grande Dame” of cross-national surveys – An assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Values Survey and World Values Survey datasets’
- Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, April 12-15, 2007
Panel Chair and Discussant: ‘Electoral Systems and Public Policy’ panel
Presenter on ‘Electoral Systems and Party Systems’ panel
- Reviewer: Journal of Legislative Studies.
Languages
- English: Native Speaker
- French: Fluent speaking and written.
- Italian: Functional speaking and writing (was minor language in college)
- Irish: Functional speaking and written (leaving certificate level)
Last updated
10 August, 2009 3:15 PM
