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Ireland
2023
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Political Science
Ireland
2023

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Political Science

D-Index
34
Citations
5972
World Ranking
841
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 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

Overview

Robert Elgie was affiliated with Dublin City University in Ireland. Their academic contributions primarily centered on the social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations.

Their research spanned multiple main fields of study, including:

  • Social Sciences
  • Business, Management and Accounting

Within these broader fields, their subfields of study included:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Strategy and Management
  • Law

The key topics that formed the core of their work were diverse and included:

  • Political Systems and Governance
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Politics and Society in Latin America
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies

They collaborated frequently with several scholars in their field, including:

  • Gianluca Passarelli
  • Rudy B. Andeweg
  • Ludger Helms
  • Juliet Kaarbo
  • Ferdinand Müller-Rommel

While no specific details are available on Robert Elgie's recent papers or particular book publications, their interdisciplinary approach combined political science with aspects of business and law, reflecting an engagement with strategy and governance in both academic and practical contexts.

Elgie's work was situated at the intersection of political systems analysis and corporate strategies, examining how governance frameworks influenced social policies and electoral processes. They also extended their research to the study of European Union governance structures and political dynamics within Latin America.

Best Publications

  • The politics of semi-presidentialism.

    Robert Elgie

  • Semi-presidentialism in Europe

    Robert Elgie

  • Political leadership in liberal democracies

    Robert Elgie

  • The Effect of Increased Women's Representation in Parliament: The Case of Rwanda

    Claire Devlin;Robert Elgie

  • Semi-Presidentialism: Sub-Types and Democratic Performance

    Robert Elgie

  • Variations on a Theme

    Robert Elgie

  • The classification of democratic regime types: conceptual ambiguity and contestable assumptions

    Robert Elgie

  • Semi-Presidentialism: Concepts, Consequences and Contesting Explanations

    Robert Elgie

  • The politics of the European Central Bank: principal-agent theory and the democratic deficit

    Robert Elgie

  • Models of Executive Politics: a Framework for the Study of Executive Power Relations in Parliamentary and Semi–presidential Regimes

    Robert Elgie

  • Credible Commitment, Political Uncertainty or Policy Complexity? Explaining Variations in the Independence of Non-majoritarian Institutions in France

    Robert Elgie;Iain McMENAMIN

  • CORE EXECUTIVE STUDIES TWO DECADES ON

    Robert Elgie

  • Semi-presidentialism in Central and Eastern Europe

    Robert Elgie;Sophia Moestrup

  • Democratic accountability and central bank independence: Historical and contemporary, national and European perspectives

    Robert Elgie

  • Semi-presidentialism outside Europe : a comparative study

    Robert Elgie;Sophia Moestrup

  • From Linz to Tsebelis: three waves of presidential/parliamentary studies?

    Robert Elgie

  • Maximizing the reliability of cross-national measures of presidential power

    David Doyle;Robert Elgie

  • The politics of central banks

    Robert Elgie;Helen Thompson

  • Divided Government in Comparative Perspective

    Robert Elgie

  • Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy

    Robert Elgie;Sophia Moestrup;Yushan Wu

  • What Is Divided Government

    Robert Elgie

  • The Role of the Prime Minister in France, 1981-91

    Robert Elgie

Frequent Co-Authors

Juliet Kaarbo
Juliet Kaarbo University of St Andrews
Francesco Cavatorta
Francesco Cavatorta Université Laval
Rudy B. Andeweg
Rudy B. Andeweg Leiden University
Patrick Dunleavy
Patrick Dunleavy London School of Economics and Political Science
Jan Zielonka
Jan Zielonka University of Oxford

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