Law & Government

Biographical Details:

Dr. Eileen Connolly is a senior lecturer in politics in Dublin City University. Her research interests include Gender and Politics, Politics of Development and the relationship between States and Civil Society. Dr. Connolly has led a number of research projects for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, official development agency ¿ Irish Aid, including a major study of local civil society organisations in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Central America. Dr. Connolly was previously Director of DCUs Centre for International Studies and she has recently completed a six year term on the fifteen person Executive Committee of the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research), which is the major professional organisation for this field in Europe, with over 400 European institutional members and associate members in over 50 countries.

Research Interests:

Gender and Politics. Politics of Development and the relationship between States and Civil Society

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Connolly, Eileen. 2013. Gender and the Allocation of Political Portfolios in Ireland: Cabinet Ministers, Ministers Of State and Parliamentary Committee Chairs. Irish Political Studies, 28,
• Connolly, Eileen and Aurelie Sicard. 2012. Responding to China: Changing Donor Discourse and Perspectives on Africa?. Irish Studies In International Affairs, 23,, pp111-124.
• Eileen Connolly and John Doyle. 2010. La política exterior irlandesa a l'ONU i a la UE: Influència i participació (in Catalan) [Irish foreign policy in the United Nations and European Union: influence and participation]. Dcidob, 2010, 111, pp11-27.
• Eileen Connolly, John Doyle and Fiona Dwyer. 2008. Public Opinion and Development Issues: a survey of Irish university student opinions. Irish Studies In International Affairs, 19,, pp155-172.
• Morina O Neill and Eileen Connolly. 2007. International Campaigns on Gender in a Development Context. Development Review, , pp79-91.
• Connolly, Eileen and Lorna Gold. 2006. Development and the United Nations: Achievements and Challenges for the Future. Irish Studies In International Affairs, 17, 1, pp61-75.
• Eileen Connolly. 2003. Durability and change in state gender systems: Ireland in the 1950s. European Journal Of Women's Studies, 10-4,, pp65-86*.
• Eileen Connolly and John Doyle. 2002. US power after Sept 11th: increasing international insecurity?. Development Review, *,, pp31-50.
• Eileen Connolly and John Doyle. 2002. Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics: a study of the 2002 election in the Republic of Ireland. Irish Studies In International Affairs, 13,, pp151-166*.

Selected Books

• Eileen Connolly. Engagement with Civil Society for Poverty Reduction, Advisory Board for Irish Aid (Irish Dept of Foreign Affairs), 2007.

Selected Chapters

• Connolly, Eileen. 2012. The Evolution and Ambition of Irelands Development Aid Policy . , pp152-168.
• Connolly, Eileen and John Doyle. 2005. The place of the United Nations in contemporary Irish foreign policy¿,. Obligations and Responsibilities: Ireland and the United Nations: 1955-2005, pp362-383.
• Connolly, Eileen. 2004. Entries on Gender and the state. Everything Irish - an enclopedia of Irish politics and culture, (revised and updated edition)edited by Ruckenstein, Lelia & James O¿Malley. Mercier Press.
• Connolly, Eileen. 2004. The Government and the Governmental System. Politics in the Republic of Ireland (4th edition), edited by John Coakley and Michael Gallagher. Routledge, 2004, pp328-351.
• Connolly, Eileen. 2003. Entries on Gender and the State. EVERYTHING IRISH. edited by Ruckenstein, Lelia & James O¿Malley. (Ballantine, New York)
• Connolly, Eileen and Eunan O'Halpin. 1999. The Government and Governmental System. Politics in the Republic of Ireland. Edited by John Coakley and Michael Gallagher. Published by Routledge., pp249-270.
• Connolly, Eileen and Eunan O'Halpin. 1999. Parliaments and Pressure Groups: The Irish Experience of Change. Parliaments and Pressure Groups in Western Europe, edited by Philip Norton. Published by Frank Cass., pp124-144.
• Connolly, Eileen. 1998. Women and Public Policy: : Ireland's Equality Contract. Women and Politics in Ireland. Edited by Yvonne Galligan, Eilis Ward and Rick Wilford. Published by Westview Press., pp74-89.
• Connolly, Eileen. 1996. The Gendered State: the Role of Changing Gender Values in the Construction of Public Policy in Ireland, 1957-1977. In from the Shadows. Edited by Ronit Lentin. Published by University of Limerick, pp121-128.

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• Connolly, Eileen, Women in Parliament and Substantive Representation - a Cautionary Tale?, MOVING IN FROM THE MARGINS: WOMEN¿S POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN IRELAND, 17-SEP-10 - 18-SEP-10, University College Cork
• Connolly, Eileen, ¿Tanzanian 'civil society' - between co-operation and opposition¿., European Consortium for Political Research, general conference, 08-SEP-05 - 10-SEP-05, Budapest, Hungary
• Connolly, Eileen, Women¿s representation in national parliaments in Sub-Saharan Africa: an ideational framework for investigation, International Studies Association, annual convention, 16-MAR-04 - 20-MAR-04, Montreal, Canada
• Connolly, Eileen, Gender Equality Strategies and the Impact of Institutionalised Ideas , European Consortium for Political Research, general conference, 18-SEP-03 - 20-SEP-03, Marburg, Germany
• Connolly, Eileen, The role of ideas in the re-negotiation of gender regimes: actors, institutions and outcomes, European Consortium for Political Research, Joint Sessions, 28-MAR-03 - 02-APR-03, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Connolly, Eileen, The Role of Ideas in the Construction of Gendered Policy Regimes: the relationship between the national and the international, International Studies Association Annual Convention, 25-FEB-03 - 02-MAR-03, Portland Oregon, USA
• Connolly, Eileen, Women's Organisations, social partners and the state: negotiating Ireland's gender bargain - an application of Blyth's model of ideational change., Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 02-NOV-01 - 04-NOV-01, Galway
• Connolly, Eileen and Emer O Hagen, Between gobalisation and partnership: the role of employers' organisations as political actors., Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 13-OCT-00 - 15-OCT-00, Cork
• Connolly, Eileen, Succession, Gender and Property rights., Annual Women's Studies Conference, Queen's University Belfast, 08-JAN-98 - 09-JAN-98, Belfast
• Connolly, Eileen, Gender and Political Culture, Changing Gender Relations in Ireland., Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 17-OCT-97 - 19-OCT-97, Waterford
• Connolly, Eileen, Gender and Public Policy in Ireland 1957-1972; Placing the Process of Change in a European Context., Annual Women and Politics Conference, Political Studies Association of Ireland, 23-MAR-96 - 23-MAR-96, Trinity College Dublin