Michael Gallagher
(BA, MSc, MSc, PhD)

Contact details

Room 5.06
Department of Political Science
Trinity College Dublin
2–3 College Green
Dublin 2, Ireland

tel: +353 1 896 1891
fax: +353 1 677 0546

Email: mgllgher (add @tcd.ie to username)

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Head of Department (2005–08, 2010–). Professor of Comparative Politics (2006–), Department of Political Science, Trinity College, University of Dublin.

• How Ireland Voted 2011: the full story of Ireland's earthquake election (2011) NEW
• Representative Government in Modern Europe 5th edition (2011) NEW
• Comparative electoral systems (see expanded electoral systems page) UPDATED
• Ireland election 25 February 2011 (page)
• Irish politics ('should the Irish electoral system be changed?' page; also 5th edition of Politics in the Republic of Ireland)
• Political parties
• Backgrounds, attitudes and activism of party members
• click here for contributions to Irish political reform site
• How Ireland Voted 2007
• Ireland election 24 May 2007 (results)
• Ireland EP election 5 June 2009 (results)
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• Irish politics
• Political parties
• Comparative political institutions
• Supervision of 10 completed PhD theses (Dr Gerard McElroy, Dr Yvonne Galligan, Dr Frances Gardiner, Dr Mary-Clare O'Sullivan, Dr Eoin O'Malley (thesis awarded inaugural PSAI prize 2006 for best politics thesis submitted to an Irish university in 2005), Dr Brighid Brooks Kelly (thesis awarded PSAI prize 2008 for best politics thesis submitted to an Irish university in 2007), Dr Liam Weeks, Dr Shane MacGiollabhuí, Dr Maria Laura Sudulich, Dr Séin Ó Muineacháin)
• Supervision of MPhil dissertation: Ronan J Murphy, 'Public funding for Irish political parties: cartelisation or competition?' (2005)

• Visiting Professor, Sciences-Po Lille, February 2007
• Visiting Professor, Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong, Jan–March 2001
• Visiting Professor, Center for European Studies and Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, Sept–Dec 1997
• Associate professor, Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, 1998–2006
• Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, 1979–98
• Research fellow, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast, 1977–79

• Author, co-author or co-editor of several books, including:
  • How Ireland Voted 2011: the full story of Ireland's earthquake election (Basingstoke, 2011)
  • Representative Government in Modern Europe, 5th ed (Maidenhead, 2011)
  • Politics in the Republic of Ireland, 5th ed (London, 2010)
  • Irish Elections 1948–77: results and analysis (Routledge and PSAI Press, 2009)
  • The Politics of Electoral Systems, paperback edition (Oxford, 2008)
  • How Ireland Voted 2007 (Basingstoke, 2008); including chapter on betting and the election
  • Representative Government in Modern Europe, 4th ed (New York and London, 2006)
  • Politics in the Republic of Ireland, 4th ed (Abingdon, 2005)
  • How Ireland Voted 2002 (Basingstoke, 2003)
  • Days of Blue Loyalty (Dublin, 2002)
  • The Referendum Experience in Europe (Basingstoke, 1996)
  • Irish Elections 1922–44: results and analysis (PSAI Press, 1993)
  • How Ireland Voted 1992 (Dublin, 1993)
  • How Ireland Voted 1989 (Galway, 1990)
  • Candidate Selection in Comparative Perspective (London, 1988)
  • Political Parties in the Republic of Ireland (Manchester, 1985)
  • The Irish Labour Party in Transition, 1957-82 (Manchester, 1982)
• See books in pictures

• Around 70 book chapters and journal articles, including:
  • 'Proportionality, disproportionality and electoral systems' (Electoral Studies 10, 1991)
  • 'Comparing proportional representation electoral systems' (British Journal of Political Science 22, 1992)
  • 'Do Ulster Unionists have a right to self-determination?' (Irish Political Studies 5, 1990)
  • 'How many nations are there in Ireland?' (Ethnic and Racial Studies 18, 1995)
  • 'The pact general election of 1922' (Irish Historical Studies 21:84, 1981)
  • 'The Japanese House of Councillors election 1998 in comparative perspective' (Leviathan, Japanese Journal of Political Science 29 (2001)
  • 'Politics in Laois-Offaly 1922-92' in Laois: history and society (1999)

• Has presented papers at around 30 conferences in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, Spain, Suomi / Finland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, the USA.
• Director of two workshops at Joint Sessions of European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR)

• Presentation to Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Constitution, November 2009, on whether the Irish electoral system causes TDs to focus on constituency work (presentation)
• President of Political Studies Association of Ireland 1994-96
• Member of Editorial Boards of the journals Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Irish Political Studies, Party Politics
• See also Political Reform site.