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Dr Iain McMenamin

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Dr Iain McMenamin

Biographical Details:

Iain McMenamin is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and an associate of the Centre for International Studies. He studied at University College Dublin, Nuffield College, Oxford and the London School of Economics. He is interested in most areas of comparative politics, including business-government relations and Poland. He is currently concentrating on studying how different political structures influence the credibility of states as debtors. He has taught a wide range of courses on comparative politics, European studies and research methods at BA, MA and PhD levels.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

  • Michael Breen and Iain McMenamin. 2014. Political Institutions, Credible Commitment, and Sovereign Debt in Advanced Economics. International Studies Quarterly,
  • Iain McMenamin, Roderick Flynn, Eoin O'Malley, and Kevin Rafter,. 2013. Commercialism and Election Framing: A content analysis of twelve newspapers in the 2011 Irish general election. International Journal Of Press/politics,
  • Iain McMenamin. 2012. Business Financing of Politics in Ireland: Theory, Evidence and Reform. Irish Political Studies,
  • Iain McMenamin. 2012. If Money Talks, What Does It Say? Varieties of Capitalism and Business Financing of Parties. World Politics, 64, 1, pp1-38.
  • Iain McMenamin. 2011. Liberal Market Economies, Business, and Political Finance: Britain under New Labour. West European Politics, 34, 5, pp1023-1045.
  • Iain McMenamin and Anna Gwiazda. 2011. Three roads to institutionalisation: vote-, office- and policy-seeking explanations of party switching in Poland. European Journal Of Political Research, 50, 6, pp838-866.
  • Robert Elgie and Iain McMenamin. 2011. Explaining the Onset of Cohabitation under Semi-presidentialism. Political Studies, 59, 3
  • Iain McMenamin. 2008. Business, Politics, and Money in Australia: Testing Economic, Political, and Ideological Explanations. Australian Journal Of Political Science, 44, 3, pp377-393.
  • Robert Elgie and Iain McMenamin. 2008. Political Fragmentation, fiscal deficits and political institutionalisation. Public Choice, 136, , pp255-267.
  • Robert Elgie and Iain McMenamin. 2008. Semi-presidentialism and democratic performance. Japanese Journal Of Political Science, 9, 3, pp323-340.
  • Robert Elgie and Iain McMenamin. 2008. Journal publications from politics departments in the Republic of Ireland: an update using the Hix method. European Political Science,
  • Iain McMenamin and Roger Schoenman. 2007. Together Forever? Explaining Exclusivity in Party-Firm Relations. Political Studies, 55, 1, pp153-173.
  • Iain McMenamin. 2006. Process and Text: Teaching Students to Review the Literature. Ps: Political Science And Politics, 39, 1, pp133-135.
  • Robert Elgie and Iain McMenamin. 2005. Credible commitment, political uncertainty, or policy complexity? Explaining the discretion granted to Independent Administrative Authorities in France. British Journal Of Political Science, 35, , pp531-548.
  • Iain McMenamin. 2004. Varieties of Capitalist Democracy: What Difference Does East-Central Europe Make?. Journal Of Public Policy, 24, 3, pp259-274.
  • Iain McMenamin. 2004. Parties, Promiscuity and Politicisation: Business-Political Networks in Poland. European Journal Of Political Research, 43, 4, pp657-676.
  • Virpi Timonen and Iain McMenamin. 2002. Future of Care Services in Ireland: Old Answers to New Challenges?. Social Policy And Administration, 36, 1, pp20-36.
  • Iain McMenamin. 2002. Poland's Business Associations: Flattened Civil Society or Super Lobbies?. Business And Politics, 4, 3, pp299-315.
  • Iain McMenamin and Virpi Timonen. 2002. Poland's Health Reform: Politics, Markets and Informal Payments. Journal Of Social Policy, 31, 1, pp103-118.
  • Iain McMenamin. 1997. Self-Choosing and Right-Acting in the Nationalism of Giuseppe Mazzini. History Of European Ideas, 23, 5-6, pp221-234.

Selected Books

  • Iain McMenamin. If Money Talks, What Does It Say? Corruption and Business Financing of Political Parties , Oxford University Press, 2012.

Selected Chapters

Reviews

  • Iain McMenamin. 2012. The Politics of Party Funding: State Funding to Political Parties and Party Competition in Western Europe by Michael Koss. West European Politics,
  • Iain McMenamin. 2006. Ireland by Gustave de Beaumont. Political Studies Review, 5, pp105-106.
  • Iain McMenamin. 2002. Post-Communism: The Emerging Engima by Jadwiga Staniszkis. East European Politics And Societies, 15, pp732-735.
  • Iain McMenamin. 1998. Private Desires, Political Action: An Invitation to the Politics of Rational Choice by Michael Laver. Irish Political Studies, *,

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

  • Iain McMenamin. 2006. Ireland by Gustave de Beaumont. Sunday Business Post,
  • Iain McMenamin. 2004. Poland, the Brussels débâcle, and the European Interest. VIA-Europa, 14, pp23-25.
  • Iain McMenamin. 2001. Incoming Polish Government Faces Financial Crisis. Sunday Business Post, *,
  • Iain McMenamin. 2001. Poland's Reaction to the Irish Rejection of the Nice Treaty. Sunday Business Post, *,
  • Iain McMenamin. 1999. The Serbs: History, Myth and the Death of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah. Sunday Business Post, *,
  • Iain McMenamin. 1999. Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael Ignatieff. Sunday Business Post, *,
  • Iain McMenamin. 1998. The History of Government by S E Finer. Irish Times, *,
  • Iain McMenamin, If money talks, what does it say? Political finance and business lobbying in Canada and Australia, Interest Groups and Lobbying, 23-APR-10 - 23-APR-10, DCU
  • Iain McMenamin, Ideology, Pragmatism and Strategy in Party-Firm Relations: Quantitative Studies of Australia, Canada and Germany, Congress of the International Political Science Association, 16-JUL-09 - 20-JUL-09, Santiago, Chile
  • Iain McMenamin, Ideology, Pragmatism and Strategy in Party-Firm Relations: Quantitative Studies of Australia, Canada and Germany, Joint Sessions of the European Consortium of Political Research, 14-APR-09 - 19-APR-09, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Iain McMenamin, Semi-presidentialism and democratisation in Poland, In: Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup and Yu-Shan Wu ed.Semi-presidentialism: Institutional Choice, Evolution and Performance, 17-OCT-08 - 18-OCT-08, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Iain McMenamin, Business, Politics and Money in Parliamentary Regimes, Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association of Ireland, 19-OCT-07 - 21-OCT-07, Dublin
  • Robert Elgie and Iain McMenamin, Premier-presidential and president-parliamentary regimes: cohabitation, cabinet stability and non-partisan prime ministers, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 30-AUG-07 - 02-SEP-07, Chicago, IL
  • Robert Elgie and Iain McMenamin, Semi-presidentialism and democratic survival: Assessing the performance of a common regime type, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 31-AUG-06 - 03-SEP-06, Philadelphia
  • Iain McMenamin, Semi-presidentialism and democratisation in Poland, Annual Meeting of the Irish Association for Russian and East European Studies, 11-MAY-06 - 13-MAY-06, University College Dublin
  • Robert Elgie and Iain McMenamin, Political Fragmentation and Budget Deficits in Non-OECD countries, Development Studies Conference, 23-MAR-06 - 24-MAR-06, Dublin City University
  • Iain McMenamin and Roger Schoenman, Secrets About Firms Every Party Should Know: Party-Firm Relations in Corrupt Parliamentary Democracies, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 01-SEP-04 - 05-SEP-04, Chicago, IL
  • Robert Elgie and Iain McMenamin, Credible commitment, political uncertainty, or policy complexity? Explaining the discretion granted to Independent Administrative Authorities in France, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 01-SEP-04 - 05-SEP-04, Chicago, IL
  • Iain McMenamin, Business-Government Relations in Poland: Associations, Parties, or Personalism?, Industrial Relations Research Seminar, 26-FEB-04 - 26-FEB-04, University College Dublin
  • Iain McMenamin, Is there an East-Central European Variety of Democratic Capitalism, Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 17-OCT-03 - 19-OCT-03, Dublin
  • Iain McMenamin, Is there an East-Central European Variety of Democratic Capitalism?, American Political Science Association Annual Meetin, 28-AUG-03 - 02-SEP-03, Philadelphia
  • Robert Elgie and Iain McMenamin, Explaining the Independence of Independent Administrative Authorities in France, European Consortium of Political Research Joint Sessions, 28-MAR-03 - 02-APR-03, Edinburgh
  • Iain McMenamin, Pure Personalism: Networks of Businesspeople and Politicians in Poland, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 28-AUG-02 - 01-SEP-02, Boston
  • Iain McMenamin, Networks of Businesspeople and Politicians in Poland, UK Political Studies Association, Annual Conference, 05-APR-02 - 08-APR-02, Aberdeen
  • Iain McMenamin, Business-Government Relations: Hard, Soft and Privatised States, Politics Research Seminar, 18-JAN-02 - 18-JAN-02, University College Dublin
  • McMenamin, Iain, Four Types of Business Representation in Poland, European Consortium of Political Research General Conference, 06-SEP-01 - 10-SEP-01, University of Kent, Canterbury
  • McMenamin, Iain, How 'Post-Communist' are Business Interest Associations in Poland?, British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies, 02-APR-00 - 04-APR-00, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
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