PhD Programme
Current Students
Name of student |
Title of Doctoral Thesis |
Supervisor |
| Mirjam Allik | Women’s representation: the case of Estonia | Prof Michael Marsh |
| Donata-Katharina Brunelli | European Common Security and Defence Policy |
Dr Robert Thomson |
| Adriana Bunea | Explaining interest group influence in EU policymaking. A network approach | Dr Robert Thomson/ Dr Gail McElroy |
| Mark Canavan | The Impact of Localism on Public Goods and Services Provision | Prof Michael Gallagher |
| Mark Carpenter | Understanding Irish Lobbying: A Comparative Case Study |
Dr Raj Chari |
| Ed Coughlan | Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: 1997 – 2010 |
Dr Clionadh Raleigh |
| Michael Courtney | The Attitudes and Social Background of Parliamentarians | Prof Michael Gallagher |
| Kevin Cunningham | Explaining Variation in Support for the Extreme Right: A Two-Stage Approach |
Prof Michael Marsh |
| Sander Ensink | Differential Responsiveness: A First Cross-National Analysis | Dr Raj Chari |
| Stephen Erskine | Explaining Extreme Right Success and Failure Using External Supply-Side Approaches |
Dr Gail McElroy |
| Henrik Hermansson | Environmental policy in the EU: position formation and policy outcomes. | Dr Robert Thomson |
| Denise Carolin Huebner | The use of group litigation under EU law |
Dr William Phelan |
| Raimondas Ibenskas | Factors of Party System Institutionalization in European Democracies. | Dr Gail McElroy |
| Justin Leinaweaver | Explaining the Variation in State Commitment to Environmental Treaties | Dr Robert Thomson |
| Caroline McEvoy | The Effect of Policy Congruence between Citizens and Political Elites in Europe on Satisfaction with Democracy | Dr Gail McElroy |
| Shqipe Mjekiqi | The impact of electoral systems on the behaviour of MPs in newly-democratised countries | Prof Michael Gallagher |
| Meghan Morris | Government Decentralization in Africa: Have the Majority Poor been ‘Empowered’ to Play a Significant Role in their Own Development? |
Dr Gail McElroy |
| Carolina Plescia | Split ticket voting: a theoretical and methodological investigation in three countries | Prof Michael Marsh |
Post-conflict governments 1975-2004: measuring and explaining performance |
Prof Kenneth Benoit |
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| Kristin Semancik | The Effects of European Integration on National Healthcare Systems |
Dr Raj Chari |
| Laura Schwirz | The impact of party leadership evaluations on vote choice: a comparative analysis |
Prof Michael Marsh |
| Marta Smolen | Networks in the Council of Ministers of the European Union Before and After Enlargement |
Dr Robert Thomson |
| Magdalena Staniek | Long Live the Party? A Cross - National Analysis of Legislative Party Failure in Emerging and Established Democracies. | Prof Kenneth Benoit |
| Patrick Theiner | The Politics of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria | Dr William Phelan |
The potential for party switching among the electorate |
Prof Michael Marsh |