Law & Government

Biographical Details:

Dr. Shane Martin is Lecturer in Comparative Government and Director of the Centre for International Studies at Dublin City University. He currently serves as Chair of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments. He has previously taught at the Pennsylvania State University and the University of California,San Diego.

Research Interests:

Legislative Studies, Comparative Political Institutions, American Politics

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Martin, Shane. 2013. Is All Politics Local? The Role-Orientation of Irish Parliamentarians toward Foreign Policy. Irish Political Studies, forthcoming,
• Martin, Shane. 2013. Why Electoral Systems Don't Always Matter: The Impact of Mega-seats on Legislative Behavior in Ireland. Party Politics, forthcoming,
• Martin, Shane. 2011. Using Parliamentary Questions to Measure Constituency Focus: An Application to the Irish Case. Political Studies, 59, 2, pp472-488.
• Martin, Shane. 2011. Parliamentary Questions, the Behaviour of Legislators, and the Function of Legislatures: An Introduction. Journal Of Legislative Studies, 17, 3, pp259-270.
• Martin, Shane & Rozenberg, Olivier. 2011. Questioning Parliamentary Questions. Journal Of Legislative Studies, 17, 3, pp394-404.
• Martin, Shane. 2011. Electoral Institutions, the Personal Vote and Legislative Organization. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 36, 3, pp339-361.
• Martin, Shane. 2010. Electoral Rewards for Personal Vote Cultivation under PR-STV. West European Politics, 33, 2, pp369-380.
• Martin, Shane. 2009. The Congressional Representation of Muslim-American Constituents. Politics And Religion, 2, 2, pp230-246.
• Martin, Shane. 2008. Two Houses: Legislative Studies and the Atlantic Divide. Ps: Political Science And Politics, 41, 3, pp557-565.

Selected Books

• Martin, Shane, Thomas Saalfeld & Kaare Strøm, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Martin, Shane & Olivier Rozenberg, eds. The Roles and Function of Parliamentary Questions, Routledge, 2012.

Selected Chapters

• Shane Martin. 2011. "Monitoring Irish Government" in Eoin O'Malley and Muiris MacCarthaigh (ed.). Governing Ireland: From Core Executive to Delegated Governance
• Martin, Shane. 2010. "The Committee System" in Muiris MacCarthaigh and Maurice Manning (eds). The Houses of the Oireachtas: Parliament in Ireland, pp285-302.
• Shane Martin (with Eoin O'Malley). 2009. "The Government and the Taoiseach" in John Coakley and Michael Gallagher (eds). Politics in the Republic of Ireland., pp295-326.
• Shane Martin (with Sam Depauw). 2009. "Legislative Party Discipline and Cohesion in Comparative Perspective" in Daniela Giannetti and Kenneth Benoit (eds.). Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Government, pp. 103-120.

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• Martin, Shane, Why Electoral Systems Don't Always Matter: The Impact of Mega-seats on Legislative Behaviour, European Consortium for Political Research Biannual General Conference, 25-AUG-11 - 28-AUG-11, Reykjavik, Iceland
• Martin, Shane, The Vote of Investiture: The Irish Case, European Consortium for Political Research Biannual General Conference, 25-AUG-11 - 28-AUG-11, Reykjavik, Iceland
• Martin, Shane, Explaining the Emergence of a Party-Centred Legislature in a Candidate-Centred Electoral Environment: The Puzzling Case of Ireland, European Consortium for Political Research Workshops, 12-APR-11 - 17-APR-11, St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Martin, Shane, Explaining Variation in Committee Organization, Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, USA, 31-MAR-11 - 03-APR-11, Chicago, USA
• Martin, Shane, MP-Constituency Congruence and the Representation of British Muslims, Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, 22-APR-10 - 25-APR-10, Chicago, USA
• Martin, Shane (with Sam Depauw), Legislative Committees and Multiparty Government, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 02-SEP-09 - 05-SEP-09, Totonto
• Martin, Shane, Foreign Policy and the Congressional Representation of Muslim-Americans, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 02-SEP-09 - 05-SEP-09, Toronto
• Martin, Shane, Parliamentary Accountability and Parliamentary Questions: A Framework for Analysis, ECPR Conference on Parliamentary Accountability, 12-MAR-09 - 14-MAR-09, Science Po, Paris
• Martin, Shane, "Parliamentary Accountability and Multiparty Government: Exploring chains of delegation", ECPR Conference on Parliamentary Accountability, 14-FEB-08 - 16-FEB-08, Madrid