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Dr Eoin O'Malley

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Dr Eoin O'Malley

Dr Eoin O'Malley

Biographical Details:

Dr. Eoin O'Malley is a lecturer in political science in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. His research is mainly on Irish politics and particularly on cabinet government in Ireland, though he also does work on the Irish party system, media coverage of Irish elections and as a member of the academic team of We the Citizens, an Atlantic Philanthropies-sponsored pilot citizens' assembly, he is also interested in deliberative democracy. He has recently conducted research which included experiments on the impact of information on opinion change. Eoin wrote a textbook, Contemporary Ireland (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), and co-edited two other books on Irish politics. He is a former co-editor of Irish Political Studies. Eoin is a frequent contributor to national debates on political reform.

Research Interests:

Prime ministerial power in parliamentary democracies; Political elites; Campaign and electoral effects of leadership; Taoisigh and cabinet government in Ireland; Policy making in Ireland; Political parties in Ireland;

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

Selected Books

Selected Chapters

Reviews

  • Eoin O'Malley. 2009. Review of Politics in Ireland by Maura Adshead and Jon Tonge. Studies, 98,
  • Dr. Eoin O'Malley. 2007. Review of 'Irish Social and political attitudes'. Irish University Review, 37, pp261-266.
  • O'Malley, Eoin. 2006. Presidents, Prime ministers and Chancellors The Presidentialisation of Politics. Political Studies Review, 4, pp111-112.

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

  • Dr. Eoin O'Malley. 2012. Fiscal Pact may need a referendum. Sunday Business Post,
  • Eoin O'Malley. 2011. The Great Unloved - the reputation of Bertie Ahern. The Dublin Review of Books,
  • ELAINE BYRNE, DAVID FARRELL, EOIN O'MALLEY, JANE SUITER and MATTHEW WALL. 2011. New coalition must make political reform a priority. The Irish Times,
  • Eoin O'Malley. 2011. Labour's Dilemma. Sunday Business Post,
  • Eoin O'Malley. 2011. Can Fine Gael and Labour work together in government?. Sunday Business Post,
  • Eoin O'Malley, Jane Suiter, David Farrell, Elaine Byrne and Matt Wall. 2010. Path to Rebuilding Republic should start with a Citizens' Assembly. The Irish Times,
  • Eoin O'Malley. 2010. Is Cowen an unlucky general?. Sunday Business Post,
  • Eoin O'Malley. 2010. Government system, not electoral process, at fault. The Irish Times,
  • Eoin O'Malley. 2010. LibDems can do well in coalition negotiations. Sunday Business Post,
  • Eoin O'Malley. 2009. They took the blows: political leadership in modern Ireland. The Dublin Review of Books,
  • Eoin O'Malley. 2009. Policy oversight required. The Irish Times,
  • Eoin O'Malley. 2003. A voting system that works against the centre parties. The Irish Times,
  • Eoin O'Malley Stephen Quinlam Peter Mair, Party Patronage in Ireland: Limited but controversial, In: Peter Mair Petr Kopecky ed.Party Patronage in Europe, 03-NOV-09 - 06-NOV-09, University of Leiden, Netherlands
  • Kevin Byrne Eoin O'Malley, Politics with Hidden Bases: Unearthing party system's deep roots, Political Studies Association of Ireland, 09-OCT-09 - 11-OCT-09, Liverpool Hope University
  • Eoin O'Malley, Does size matter? The impact of small parties in Government, ECPR Joint Sessions: Party Government panel, 05-APR-09 - 09-APR-09, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Eoin O'Malley, Politics with Tribal bases: A theory of the Irish party system, Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 19-OCT-08 - 21-OCT-08, NUI, Galway
  • Jos Elkink Adrian Kavanagh Eoin O'Malley Liam Weeks, 'It makes sense to vote local': Geographic voting in Ireland, Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 19-OCT-08 - 21-OCT-08, NUI, Galway
  • Richard Heffernan Eoin O'Malley, , ECPR Joint Sessions: panel Political Power in Parliamentary Executives, 03-MAY-07 - 09-MAY-07, Helsinki, Finland
  • O'Malley, Eoin, Populist Nationalist: Sin Fein and redefining the extreme right, Elections Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP), 09-SEP-06 - 09-NOV-06, Nottingham UK
  • O'Malley, Eoin Murphy, Gary, Matching rewards in a booming economy- RHPOs in Ireland, ECPR Joint Sessions, 05-APR-06 - 12-APR-06, Nicosia, Cyprus
  • Eoin O'Malley, The explanatory power of Veto Player Theory on Prime Ministerial Power, Political Studies Association, UK, 04-APR-06 - 06-JUN-06, University of Reading, UK
  • O'Malley, Eoin, How Rational Choice Theory can contribute to an understanding of Irish politics, Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, 21-OCT-05 - 23-OCT-05, Queen's University Belfast
  • O'Malley, Eoin, `Primus sine paribus? Providing a theoretical framework to explain prime ministerial power¿, Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, 17-OCT-05 - 19-OCT-05, Trinity College Dublin
  • O'Malley, Eoin, Ministerial selection in Ireland: limited choice in a political village, European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions, 14-APR-05 - 19-APR-05, University of Granada, Spain
  • O'Malley, Eoin, Tune in, Turn Out and Throw Out- the effects of changes in turnout on election results in Europe, Department of Political Studies, American University of Beirut seminar series, 20-MAR-03 - , American University, Beirut, Lebanon
  • O'Malley, Eoin Kerby, Matthew, Fine Gael in 2002: Chronicle of a Death Foretold?, Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, 19-OCT-02 - 20-OCT-02, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • O'Malley, Eoin, My Way or the Highway: some institutional bases of prime ministerial power, ECPR General Conference (Institutional Models of Governance panel), 05-SEP-01 - 09-SEP-01, University of Kent, UK