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ProfessorDavid Farrell

Full Professor of Politics

School of Politics and International Relations

Orcid identifier0000-0002-0528-4335 (opens in a new tab)⁠
  • Full Professor of Politics
    School of Politics and International Relations
  • 01 716 8136
  • University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations, Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Common Ground: Shaping Regions Across Borders (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Apr 2022
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Creating Our Future (opens in a new tab)⁠
    30 Jul 2021 - 1 Apr 2022
    Member
  • CONSULTING / ADVISORY
    Irish Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality, 2020-21, Department of the Taoiseach/Irish Research Council (opens in a new tab)⁠
    3 Aug 2020 - 2 Aug 2021
    An independent evaluation of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality (Evaluation team: Jane Suiter, Kirsty Park, Yvonne Galligan, David Farrell)
  • CONSULTING / ADVISORY
    The UK Climate Assembly, 2020, UK Parliament (opens in a new tab)⁠
    5 Jan 2020 - 30 Sep 2022
    An independent evaluation of the UK Climate Assembly (evaluation team: Stephen Elstub, David Farrell, Jayne Carrick, Patricia Mockler)
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Stewarding Group of the Scottish Citizens' Assembly on the Future of Scotland, 2019-21 (opens in a new tab)⁠
    3 Nov 2019 - 23 Nov 2021
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Expert review of electronic voting in the Dáil chamber
    1 Nov 2019 - 5 Mar 2020
    Chair
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Forum on Parliamentary Discipline (Dáil Éireann)
    1 Aug 2017 - 30 Nov 2017
    Chair
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    European Consortium for Political Research
    30 Sep 2013 - 30 Sep 2016
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Royal Irish Academy
    1 Jan 2013
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    GESIS Klingemann Prize for the Best CSES Scholarship
    1 Jan 2012
    The prize is awarded each year for the best scholarship using Comparative Studies of Electoral Systems (CSES) data published in the calendar year prior to the award, and named in honour of Professor Hans-Dieter Klingemann, an internationally renowned political scientist, major contributor to comparative research, and co-founder of the CSES project. The prize was for the book: Russell Dalton, David Farrell and Ian McAllister, published by Oxford University Press in 2011
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Leon Weaver Award
    1 Jan 2012
    This award is for the best paper presented in a panel organised by this section at the 2011 APSA convention. The paper was: Russell Dalton, David Farrell and Ian McAllister, 'The Dynamics of Democratic Representation: How Democracy Works'.
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    The Brian Farrell book prize (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2012
    The PSAI awards an annual prize for the best book published in political science by a member of the Political Studies Association of Ireland (the Brian Farrell book prize). The prize was awarded for the following book: Russell J. Dalton, David M. Farrell and Ian McAllister, Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy , Oxford University Press, 2011
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Union Democracy Observatory on Political Parties and Representation (OPPR)
    1 Sep 2009
  • PROFESSIONAL IMPACT
    Including citizens in constitutional reform (opens in a new tab)⁠
    The genesis of this project was Ireland’s 2008/2009 financial and economic meltdown and the resulting anger over failings in our political system. I led a group of political scientists who proposed that citizens should be brought into the heart of debates over constitutional reforms to improve how our representative system of democracy operates. Our modus operandi was to seek to persuade the newly elected government in 2011 to establish a citizens’ forum. We established ‘We the Citizens’, whose year-long activity of work culminated in Ireland’s first national citizens’ assembly in June 2011. T
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    International Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Member of the Advisory Board of the ProQuest/CSA Political Science and Government Abstracts
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Member of the Advisory Council of the F. Clifton White Resource Center
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Member of the international scientific advisory board of the Making Electoral Democracy Project
  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Party Politics
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Welsh Assembly Expert Panel on Electoral Reform
    Member
  • PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
    Co-editor of the political science journal, Party Politics
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    Membership of Journal editorial boards: Administration, Journal of Political Marketing, Irish Political Studies, Parliamentary Affairs