Michael Gallagher
Professor
Political Science
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Michael Gallagher is a Professor in the Department of Political Science (Associate Professor 1998-2006) and is currently in his eighth year as Head of Department. He was a Lecturer (since 2012 this grade has been titled assistant professor) in the department 1979-1998. He was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2013. He was a Visiting Professor in the Center for European Studies and Ireland House, New York University, 1997, a Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, City University, Hong Kong, 2001, and a Visiting Professor at Sciences-Po Lille in February 2007. He did two degrees (a first degree and a masters) in Computer Science, emphasising the area of artificial intelligence and using in particular the specialist language POP-2, before switching to Political Science in the mid-1970s. His main areas of expertise are comparative electoral systems, political institutions, political parties, and Irish politics.
Research Interest
His main specialism in a comparative context is electoral systems, which could be very broadly defined as the set of rules that structure the way in which votes at elections are cast and then convert these votes into seats. He maintains an electoral systems web site at https://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/Staff/michael_gallagher/ElSystems/index.php He is also interested in the role of political institutions generally. For a number of years he has worked on political parties, especially their internal organisation and the role of members within them. He has undertaken research on many aspects of Irish politics, and on a number of aspects of comparative European politics.
Publications
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Michael Gallagher, Parties and referendums in Ireland 1937-2011, Irish Political Studies, 26, (4), 2011, p535 - 544
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Michael Gallagher and Michael Marsh eds, How Ireland voted 2011: the full story of Irelands earthquake election, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2011, 326pp
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Michael Gallagher, Michael Laver and Peter Mair, Representative Government in Modern Europe, 5, Maidenhead and New York, McGraw-Hill, 2011, 507 pp
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Michael Gallagher, The political role of the president of Ireland, Irish Political Studies, 27, (4), 2012, p522 - 538
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Michael Courtney, Michael Gallagher , The parliamentary election in Ireland, February 2011, Electoral Studies, 31, (1), 2012, p231 - 234
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The political role of the president in, editor(s)John Coakley & Kevin Rafter , The Irish presidency: power, ceremony and politics, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2013, pp40 - 59, [Michael Gallagher]
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Legislators constituency orientation in, editor(s)Kris Deschouwer and Sam Depauw , Representing the People: a survey among members of statewide and sub-state parliaments, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp166 - 187, [Audrey André, Michael Gallagher and Giulia Sandri]
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Electoral institutions and representation in, editor(s)Lawrence LeDuc, Richard G Niemi, Pippa Norris , Comparing Democracies, London and Los Angeles, Sage, 2014, pp11 - 31, [Michael Gallagher]
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Politics in Mayo 1922 to 2013 in, editor(s)Gerard Moran and Nollaig Ó MuraÃle , Mayo: history and society, Dublin, Geography Publications, 2014, pp757 - 780, [Michael Gallagher]
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Shqipe Mjekiqi and Michael Gallagher, The parliamentary elections in Kosovo, June 2014, Electoral Studies, 38, 2015, p106 - 109
