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Overview

Darren Halpin is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research focuses primarily on social sciences and business, management, and accounting, with a particular emphasis on strategy and management, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, communication, and public administration.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism

Their recent published papers cover various aspects of political and social engagement. These include:

  • Which Audiences Engage With Advocacy Groups on Twitter? Explaining the Online Engagement of Elite, Peer, and Mass Audiences With Advocacy Groups, 2020, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • Agenda-setting instruments: means and strategies for the management of policy demands, 2021, Policy and Society
  • From Policy Interest to Media Appearance: Interest Group Activity and Media Bias, 2020, The International Journal of Press/Politics
  • Why do interest groups prioritise some policy issues over others? Explaining variation in the drivers of policy agendas, 2020, Journal of Public Policy
  • Dark money and opaque politics: making sense of contributions to Australian political parties, 2021, Australian Journal of Political Science

Darren Halpin has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Oxford University Press:

  • The New Entrepreneurial Advocacy, 2021

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Anthony J. Nownes
  • Bert Fraussen
  • Max Grömping
  • Michael Vaughan
  • Ariadne Vromen

Publications have appeared in a variety of venues, with multiple works featured in:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Political Studies
  • Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • Policy and Society
  • The International Journal of Press/Politics

Best Publications

  • The 'Conventionalisation' thesis reconsidered: structural and ideological transformation of Australian organic agriculture

    Stewart Lockie;Darren Halpin

  • Defining Interests: Disambiguation and the Need for New Distinctions?

    Grant Jordan;Darren Halpin;William Maloney

  • Analysis of the European Market for Organic Food

    Ulrich Hamm;Friederike Gronefeld;Darren Halpin

  • THE PARTICIPATORY AND DEMOCRATIC POTENTIAL AND PRACTICE OF INTEREST GROUPS: BETWEEN SOLIDARITY AND REPRESENTATION

    Darren R. Halpin

  • Neoliberal governance and ‘responsibilization’ of agents: reassessing the mechanisms of responsibility-shift in neoliberal discursive environments

    Jarkko Pyysiäinen;Darren Halpin;Andrew Guilfoyle

  • Going Organic: Mobilising Networks for Environmentally Responsible Food Production

    Stewart Lockie;Kristen Lyons;Geoffrey Lawrence;Darren Halpin

  • The Political Costs of Policy Coherence: Constructing a Rural Policy for Scotland

    Grant Jordan;Darren Halpin

  • Think tanks and strategic policy-making: the contribution of think tanks to policy advisory systems

    Bert Fraussen;Darren Halpin

  • Deliberative Drift: The Emergence of Deliberation in the Policy Process

    Peter Mclaverty;Darren Halpin

  • Diversity in the news? A study of interest groups in the media in the UK, Spain and Denmark

    Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz;Laura Chaqués Bonafont;Darren R. Halpin

  • Images of an unbiased interest system

    David Lowery;Frank R. Baumgartner;Joost Berkhout;Jeffrey M. Berry

  • Who Gives Evidence to Parliamentary Committees? A Comparative Investigation of Parliamentary Committees and their Constituencies

    Helene Helboe Pedersen;Darren Halpin;Anne Rasmussen

  • Explaining breadth of policy engagement: Patterns of interest group mobilization in public policy

    Darren R. Halpin;Anne S. Binderkrantz

  • Conceptualising the policy engagement of interest groups: Involvement, access and prominence

    Darren R. Halpin;Bert Fraussen

  • Political Parties and Interest Organizations at the Crossroads: Perspectives on the Transformation of Political Organizations:

    Bert Fraussen;Darren R Halpin

  • The Organization of Political Interest Groups

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  • Interpreting Environments: Interest Group Response to Population Ecology Pressures

    Darren Halpin;Grant Jordan

  • Explaining Policy Bandwagons: Organized Interest Mobilization and Cascades of Attention

    Darren Halpin

  • The Organization of Political Interest Groups: Designing advocacy

    Darren R. Halpin

  • The scale of interest organization in democratic politics : data and research methods

    Darren Halpin;Grant Jordan

  • EVALUATING THE BREADTH OF POLICY ENGAGEMENT BY ORGANIZED INTERESTS

    Darren Halpin;Herschel Thomas

  • Interest group survival: Explaining sources of mortality anxiety

    Darren R Halpin;Herschel F Thomas

  • Interest-group capacities and infant industry development: State-sponsored growth in organic farming:

    Darren Halpin;Carsten Daugbjerg;Yonatan Yonatan Schvartzman

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten Daugbjerg
Carsten Daugbjerg University of Copenhagen
David Lowery
David Lowery Pennsylvania State University
Virginia Gray
Virginia Gray University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stewart Lockie
Stewart Lockie James Cook University
Jeremy Richardson
Jeremy Richardson University of Oxford
Anne Rasmussen
Anne Rasmussen King's College London
Frank R. Baumgartner
Frank R. Baumgartner University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ulrich Hamm
Ulrich Hamm University of Kassel
Beate Kohler-Koch
Beate Kohler-Koch University of Mannheim
Geoffrey Lawrence
Geoffrey Lawrence University of Queensland

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