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Personal Information
College Photo Name Mc Elroy, Gail
Main Department Political Science
College Title Lecturer
E-mail mcelroy@tcd.ie
College Tel +353 1 896 1029
Web http://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/staff/gail_mcelroy.php
Fax +353 1 667 0546
 
Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies
Details Date From Date To
American Political Science Association 1998 Present
Midwest Political Science Association 1998 Present
European Union Studies Association 2006 Present
International Political Science Association 2006 Present
 
Languages
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
French Medium Medium Medium
 
Expertise Ireland Description of Research Interests
European Union Politics, European Parliament, European Political Parties, Electoral Politics
 
Research Interests
Comparative Government EU Politics EUROPEAN ELECTIONS EUROPEAN UNION
Electoral Systems LEGISLATION LEGISLATIVE REFORM Political Methodology
Political Parties Qualitative research methods
 
Research Projects
Project title Representation in Europe: Policy Congruence between Citizens and Elites
Summary
Funding Agency European Science Foundation/IRCHSS
Programme Eurocores
Type of Project
Date from 1st May 2008
Date to 30 April 2011
Person Months 36
Project title The Globalisation of Party Competition
Summary This programme ocuses on the globalisation of political parties and party competition, with particular reference to the European Union. This project studies the effects of the European Parliament election on political competition at both the national and supra-national level and the interaction between these two domains.
Funding Agency Institute for International Integration Studies
Programme
Type of Project
Date from 2004
Date to 2006
Person Months
Project title Legislative Party Switching
Summary
Funding Agency National Science Foundation
Programme Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models
Type of Project
Date from 2004
Date to 2006
Person Months
 
Publications
Peer Reviewed
Gail McElroy & Kenneth Benoit, Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament, British Journal of Political Science
McElroy, G & Benoit, K, Party Groups and Policy Positions in the European Parliament, Party Politics, 13, (1), 2007, p5 - 28
Gail McElroy, Legislative Politics as Normal? Voting Behaviour and Beyond in the European Parliament, European Union Politics, 8, (3), 2007, p433 - 448
Legislative Politics in, editor(s)Knud Erik Jorgensen, Mark Pollack, Ben J Rosamond. , Handbook of European Union Politics, SAGE, 2007, pp175 - 194, [Gail McElroy]
Gail McElroy, Committee Representation in the European Parliament, European Union Politics, 7, (1), 2006, p5 - 29
Why the Opinion Polls Got it Wrong in, editor(s)Michael Gallagher, Michael Marsh and Paul Mitchell. , How Ireland Voted 2002, Basingstoke , Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp159 - 176, [Gail McElroy & Michael Marsh]
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