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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2013 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

David M. Farrell is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland. Their research spans topics related to political science, particularly focusing on deliberative democracy, electoral systems, and public participation.

The scientist has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • When Mini-Publics and Maxi-Publics Coincide: Ireland's National Debate on Abortion (2020), published in Representation
  • The death of conservative Ireland? The 2018 abortion referendum (2020), published in Electoral Studies
  • The Scope of Climate Assemblies: Lessons from the Climate Assembly UK (2021), published in Sustainability
  • Scaling up Deliberation: Testing the Potential of Mini-Publics to Enhance the Deliberative Capacity of Citizens (2020), published in Swiss Political Science Review
  • The Perception of the Legitimacy of Citizens' Assemblies in Deeply Divided Places? Evidence of Public and Elite Opinion from Consociational Northern Ireland (2021), published in Government and Opposition

Their frequent co-authors include Jane Suiter, Hongjin Zheng, Nicole Curato, Brigitte Geißel, and Jean-Benoît Pilet.

Within book publications, David M. Farrell has a presence in multiple publishers, with works including:

  • Deliberative Mini-Publics (2021) published by Bristol University Press eBooks
  • Deliberative Mini-Publics: Core Design Features (2021) published by KU Leuven
  • Reimagining Democracy: Lessons in Deliberative Democracy from the Irish Front Line (2021) published by Cornell University Library
  • PARTY DISCIPLINE AND PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT (2020) published by Ohio State University Press
  • Deliberative Mini-Publics (2021) published by Policy Press

David M. Farrell's work covers several fields and subfields:

  • Geophysics
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Communication
  • Sociology and Political Science

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Irish and British Studies
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements

Publications by David M. Farrell have appeared frequently in venues such as OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), Harvard Dataverse, Bristol University Press eBooks, Irish Political Studies, and UNC Libraries.

David M. Farrell was named a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Electoral Systems: A Comparative Introduction

    David M. Farrell

  • Political Parties as Campaign Organizations

    David Farrell;Paul Webb

  • Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy

    Russell J. Dalton;David M. Farrell;Ian McAllister

  • Campaign Strategies and Tactics

    D M. Farrell;L. LeDuc;R. Niemi;P. Norris

  • Political Parties and Democratic Linkage

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  • The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation.

    John S. Dryzek;André Bächtiger;Simone Chambers;Joshua Cohen

  • Political parties in advanced industrial democracies

    Paul Webb;David M Farrell;Ian Holliday

  • From Social Integration to Electoral Contestation

    Susan E. Scarrow;Paul Webb;David M. Farrell

  • Electoral strategies and political marketing

    Shaun Bowler;David M. Farrell

  • Comparing Electoral Systems

    David M. Farrell

  • The membership of political parties in European democracies, 1960-1990

    Richard S. Katz;Peter Mair;Luciano Bardi;Lars Bille

  • The Organizing of the European Parliament: Committees, Specialization and Co-ordination

    Shaun Bowler;David M. Farrell

  • Legislator Shirking and Voter Monitoring: Impacts of European Parliament Electoral Systems upon Legislator‐Voter Relationships

    Shaun Bowler;David M. Farrell

  • Do political campaigns matter? : campaign effects in elections and referendums

    David M. Farrell;Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck

  • Party rules, party resources and the politics of parliamentary democracies How parties organize in the 21st century

    Thomas Poguntke;Susan E Scarrow;Paul D Webb;Elin H Allern

  • Representing Europe's Citizens?: Electoral Institutions and the Failure of Parliamentary Representation

    David M. Farrell;Roger Scully

  • Voter satisfaction and electoral systems: Does preferential voting in candidate-centred systems make a difference?

    David M. Farrell;Ian Mcallister

  • ‘Systematizing’ constitutional deliberation: the 2016–18 citizens’ assembly in Ireland

    David M. Farrell;Jane Suiter;Clodagh Harris

  • Parties and campaign professionals in a digital age: Political consultants in the United States and their counterparts overseas

    David M. Farrell;Robin Kolodny;Stephen Medvic

  • The Australian Electoral System: Origins, Variations and Consequences

    David M. Farrell;Ian McAllister

  • From Social Integration to Electoral Contestation: The Changing Distribution of Power Within Political Parties

    D M. Farrell;S. Scarrow;P. Webb;R. Dalton

  • Party organization and party unity

    Conor Little;David M. Farrell

  • Electoral Systems

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  • The Membership of Political Parties in European Democracies

    R. Katz;J. Pierre;T. Poguntke;J. Sundberg

  • Global Political Campaigning: A Worldwide Analysis of Campaign Professionals and Their Practicesby Fritz Plasser with Gunda Plasser

    David M. Farrell

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaun Bowler
Shaun Bowler University of California, Riverside
Ian McAllister
Ian McAllister Australian National University
Roger Scully
Roger Scully Hong Kong Baptist University
Russell J. Dalton
Russell J. Dalton University of California, Irvine
Paul Webb
Paul Webb University of Sussex
Richard S. Katz
Richard S. Katz Johns Hopkins University
Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck
Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck University of Mannheim
Matthew Soberg Shugart
Matthew Soberg Shugart University of California, Davis
Peter Mair
Peter Mair European University Institute
Piero Ignazi
Piero Ignazi University of Bologna

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