2026 Brendan O'Leary: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	45	353	315	204	173	227	9305

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Brendan O'Leary is a researcher affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their academic work spans across social sciences with a notable emphasis on political science and international relations, as well as interdisciplinary connections to sociology and political science.

Their research primarily focuses on Irish and British studies, electoral systems and political participation, migration and integration issues, and political systems and governance. Additionally, O'Leary has contributed to fields related to European and international law, as well as orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation, reflecting a diverse scholarly interest.

Frequent co-authors include:

John Garry
James Pow
S. M. Thomas
William T. Kent
John Coakley

O'Leary's publication record features several papers in notable venues. Selected works include:

The Perception of the Legitimacy of Citizens' Assemblies in Deeply Divided Places? Evidence of Public and Elite Opinion from Consociational Northern Ireland (2021), Government and Opposition
Public attitudes to different possible models of a United Ireland: evidence from a citizens' assembly in Northern Ireland (2020), Irish Political Studies
The future of Northern Ireland: border anxieties and support for Irish reunification under varieties of UKexit (2020), Regional Studies
Getting Ready: The Need to Prepare for a Referendum on Reunification (2021), Irish Studies in International Affairs
Public Attitudes to Irish Unification: Evidence on Models and Process from a Deliberative Forum in Ireland (2022), Irish Studies in International Affairs

Frequent publication venues for O'Leary include:

Irish Studies in International Affairs
European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology
Irish Political Studies
Government and Opposition
Regional Studies

The researcher has been recognized as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy since 2016.

Best Publications

Theories of the State: The Politics of Liberal Democracy

Patrick Dunleavy;Brendan O'Leary

1348
Citations
Explaining Northern Ireland: Broken Images

John McGarry;Brendan O'Leary

1059
Citations
The Politics of Antagonism: Understanding Northern Ireland

Brendan O'Leary;John McGarry

698
Citations
The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation: Case Studies of Protracted Ethnic Conflicts

John McGarry;Brendan O'Leary

631
Citations
The Northern Ireland Conflict: Consociational Engagements

John McGarry;Brendan O'Leary

477
Citations
Theories of the State

Patrick Dunleavy;Brendan O’Leary

401
Citations
Extremist Outbidding in Ethnic Party Systems is Not Inevitable: Tribune Parties in Northern Ireland

Paul Mitchell;Geoffrey Evans;Brendan O'Leary

352
Citations
Consociational Theory, Northern Ireland's Conflict, and its Agreement. Part 1: What Consociationalists Can Learn from Northern Ireland

John McGarry;Brendan O'Leary

319
Citations
Iraq's Constitution of 2005: Liberal consociation as political prescription

John McGarry;Brendan O'Leary

304
Citations
The Northern Ireland Conflict

John McGarry;Brendan O'Leary

221
Citations
Must Pluri-national Federations Fail?

John McGarry;Brendan O'Leary

208
Citations
Consociational Theory, Northern Ireland's Conflict, and its Agreement 2. What Critics of Consociation Can Learn from Northern Ireland

John McGarry;Brendan O'Leary

202
Citations
The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq

Brendan O'Leary;John McGarry;Khaled Salih

172
Citations
Courts and Consociations: Human Rights versus Power-Sharing

Christopher McCrudden;Brendan O'Leary

123
Citations
Right-sizing the state : the politics of moving borders

Brendan O'Leary;Ian Lustick;Thomas M. Callaghy

118
Citations
Integration or accommodation? The enduring debate in conflict regulation

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115
Citations
Debating Consociational Politics: Normative and Explanatory Arguments<sup>1</sup>

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114
Citations
The Danish Cartoon Affair: Free Speech, Racism, Islamism, and Integration

Tariq Modood;Randall Hansen;Erik Bleich;Brendan O'Leary

111
Citations
An iron law of nationalism and federation?: A (neo‐Diceyian) theory of the necessity of a federal Staatsvolk, and of consociational rescue

Brendan O'leary

107
Citations
Divisor Methods for Sequential Portfolio Allocation in Multi-Party Executive Bodies: Evidence from Northern Ireland and Denmark

Brendan O'Leary;Bernard Grofman;Jorgen Elklit

103
Citations
Policing Northern Ireland: proposals for a new start

Brendan O'Leary;John McGarry

102
Citations
On the Nature of Nationalism: An Appraisal of Ernest Gellner's Writings on Nationalism

Brendan O'leary

92
Citations
Power shared after the deaths of thousands

Brendan O'Leary

65
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher McCrudden Queen's University Belfast

Geoffrey M. Evans University of Newcastle Australia

Patrick Dunleavy London School of Economics and Political Science

Ian S. Lustick University of Pennsylvania

Bernard Grofman University of California, Irvine

Tariq Modood University of Bristol

Erik Bleich Middlebury College

Nicholas Sambanis Yale University

Fred Halliday London School of Economics and Political Science

Christopher Clapham University of Cambridge

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