Michael Courtney
Personal Information
Personal webpage URL: http://irchss.academia.edu/MichaelCourtney
Discipline: Political Science
Nationality: Irish
Qualifications: B.A. in Economics, Politics and Law from Dublin City University
Funding grant(s) (if any): IRCHSS scholar (2010-2013)
Date of registration: October 2009
Research topic : The Attitudes and Social Background of Parliamentarians
My research aims to identify the division of attitudes within European legislatures and the extent to which these divisions are shaped by the social characteristics of the individual members. In addition to the traditional independent variables of similar studies such as gender, age and occupation, my project focuses on legislators who have some element of migration in their socialisation experience; whether they personally immigrated to the host country or were born in the host country to immigrant parents.
Publications:
Non peer reviewed – (Forthcoming March 2011)
‘Ireland, But Not As We Knew It: Migration, Identity and Citizenship’ in Next Generation Ireland edited by Edward Burke and Ronan Lyons. Published by Blackhall, Ireland.
Working papers:
The Political Attitudes of Immigrant Legislators in European States, Presented to the European Consortium for Political Research Postgraduate Conference, Dublin City University, September 2010
Investigating the Link between the Social Background and Attitudes of Irish TDs – Research Design and Initial Results from an Analysis of the 1995 Divorce Referendum Debate, Presented to the Political Studies Association of Ireland Postgraduate conference, Queens University, Belfast, September 2010
The Substantive Representation of Immigrants in Europe, Department of Political Science Friday Seminar Presentation, Institute of International Integration Studies, April, 2010
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