| Project title |
Where are all the Women? The Political Ambition Gap in the Republic of Ireland |
| Summary |
In spite of significant social change, the use of a proportional electoral system and no obvious voter bias, the number of Irish female legislators (TDs) remains low by international standards. The evidence to date suggests that, all else equal, women have as good a chance of getting elected as men and the real difficulties in achieving equitable representation lie in the candidate emergence and nomination stages. This project moves current research beyond the study of electoral results and voter data to examine the pool of potential candidates, exploring why qualified women do not put themselves forward for election. |
| Funding Agency |
IRCHSS |
| Programme |
Collaborative Research Projects |
| Type of Project |
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| Date from |
Oct 2012 |
| Date to |
Sept 2013 |
| Person Months |
12 |
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| Project title |
Representation in Europe: Policy Congruence between Citizens and Elites |
| Summary |
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| Funding Agency |
European Science Foundation/IRCHSS |
| Programme |
Eurocores |
| Type of Project |
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| Date from |
1st May 2008 |
| Date to |
30 April 2011 |
| Person Months |
36 |
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| 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.
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| Funding Agency |
Institute for International Integration Studies |
| Programme |
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| Type of Project |
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| Date from |
2004 |
| Date to |
2006 |
| Person Months |
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| Project title |
Legislative Party Switching |
| Summary |
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| Funding Agency |
National Science Foundation |
| Programme |
Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models |
| Type of Project |
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| Date from |
2004 |
| Date to |
2006 |
| Person Months |
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| Gail McElroy and Kenneth Benoit, Policy Positioning in the European Parliament, European Union Politics, 13, (1), 2012, p150 - 167 |
| Gail McElroy & Kenneth Benoit, Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament, British Journal of Political Science, 40, (2), 2010, p377 - 398 TARA - Full Text |
| Antoine Yoshinaka, Gail McElroy, Shaun Bowler, The
Appointment
of Rapporteurs
in
the
European
Parliament
, Legislative Studies Quarterly, 35, (4), 2010, p457 - 486 |
| McElroy, G & Benoit, K, Party Groups and Policy Positions in the European Parliament, Party Politics, 13, (1), 2007, p5 - 28 |
| Gail McElroy, Committee Representation in the European Parliament, European Union Politics, 7, (1), 2006, p5 - 29 |
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