Undergraduate

Introduction to Political Science (1st year)

European Union Politics (2nd and 3rd year)

Government & Politics of the US and Canada (3rd year)

European Union Public Policy (4th year)

Transparency Policies in Modern Democracies (4th year)

Single Honours Political Science Research Methods (4th year)

Masters

EU Public Policy and EU Institutions

Domestic and Supranational Policy Making in Europe

PhD

Research Design

PhD students

• L. Rice, How and Why does Sentencing Policy Strictness Vary in the United States, Ireland, and Canada? (in progress)

• J. O´Neill, Investigating the Lobbying Strategies and Influence of Multinational Corporations in the EU and the US  (in progress)

• G. Saydon, Fossil Fuel Interests in Environmental and Climate Policy: Evidence of Influence and Institutionalised Participation (2023)

• K. Semancik, Europeanising Healthcare: The Effects of European Integration on Domestic Systems (2022)

• M. Schito, State-business relations and the politics of state aid in the European Union: a multi-method approach to explaining aid allocations among member states (2021)

• M. Crepaz, Investigating the introduction and the robustness of lobbying laws (2017)

• M. Carpenter, Interest group access to key policymakers a comparative analysis (2015)

• N. Grenham, The Politics of Financial Services Regulation: Designs and Trends in a Footloose World (2009)

• E. Shea, European Merger Policy: Private Interests, Policy Communities and Entrepreneurship (2005). 

Master’s students

• C. O’Donohoe, ‘Under the Influence: Explaining the Enactment of the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill in Ireland, 2018’ (2019)

• H. C Savaş, Understanding Causes of Differences in Immigration Policies of the EU Member States (2019)

• L. Montenegro, Environmental Policy Innovation Analysis (2018)

• C. P. McGinn. The United Kingdom: Explaining the Vote for Brexit (2017)

• D. Bujari, What are the Factors that Determine the Density and Diversity of Interest Groups' Access in the European Parliament?’ (2015)

• V. Caruso, ‘EU Trade Policies and the role of business interests’ (2015)

• T. Morrow, ‘Counting the Cost of Education: A Comparative Case Study of University Tuition Fees in the United Kingdom and Ireland’ (2015)

• C. Sweeney, ‘The Impact of the EU on Domestic Healthcare Policies’ (2014)

• M. Di Chiro, ‘A Comparative Analysis of Attempts to Regulate Lobbying in the UK and Italy’ (2014)

• E O’Leary, ‘A Common Policy in the Mediterranean: Identity, Role and the Europeanization of French and Spanish Foreign Policy’ (2013)

• M. Salendre, ‘An Analysis of European Unity Through the European Development Aid Platform: Cohesion or Dispersion? (2013)

• J. O’Donnell, ‘How Effective is US Governmental Lobbying? A Case Study of the US Involvement in the REACH Directive’ (2013)

• D. Chicon, ‘Globalization and Trade Unionism in the Developing World’ (2013)

• B. Cogan, ‘Lobbying Regulation in Ireland: Delays and Incentives’ (2012)

• A.M. Pollack, ‘Polls Apart: Europe’s Tilt to the Right’ (2012)

• E.J. Ledford, ‘Agricultural Biotechnology: Explaining the Differences Between US and EU Policies’ (2010)

• G.M Dunne, ‘Why Does a More Viable Language Policy Exist in Catalonia and the Basque Country than in Valencia?’ (2010)

• T. Gill, "New Labour and Devolution in Scotland and Wales" (2004)

Postdoctoral researchers

•  J. Westrup, Project ‘Public Policies and Multi-Level Regulatory Structures,’ 2006-7

•  J. Hogan, Project ‘Regulation of Lobbying Activity in Canada, the USA, Germany and the EU’, 2005-6.

• C. Nitoiu, Project ‘The European Commission’s role in multi-level financial management in the EU’, 2014-15.

Undergraduate dissertations

• C Mäenpää, ‘Explaining the variation in the number of lobbyists registered under systems of mandatory registration,’ BA Single Honours Politics (Winner of the Patrick Keatinge Prize for Best Performing Single Honours Politics Student, 2013)

• M.G Paulsrud, ‘Why are French lobbying rules so weak compared to other countries?’ BA European Studies, TCD (2012)

• J. Schachter 'Smoke Free Back Rooms: Tobacco Control Policy in Canada and Ireland', BA Single Honours Politics, TCD (2006)

• S. Trommer, ‘Policy Overlap, Venue-Shopping, Policy Community or Ideological Mission? Explaining NGO Behaviour at the Council of Europe.’ BA European Studies Programme, TCD (2004)

• M. Murphy, "Turkey and the EU: Structural Adjustments in Turkey in the Wake of the Ankara Agreement, the Custom's Union and Evaluation under the Copenhagen Criteria," BA Contemporary European Integration, TCD (2002)

• O. Fuchs, "The Dynamics of the EU Environmental Policy-Making Process: The Role of Green States," BA European Studies, TCD (2002)

• S. Iltanen, "Explaining the Northern League's Views towards European Integration", BA European Studies Programme, TCD (2001)