Inclusive Society

UCD boasts some of the world's leading, pioneering researchers in the fields of political science, economics and social justice, combined with numerous other disciplines that deal with every aspect of society. Explore the breadth of their work which reimagines democracy, scrutinises political economy and drives change towards equality and sustainability.  

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Citizens Assemblies are an inclusive solution for democracies in deep crisis

  - Prof David Farrell, Chair of Politics at UCD

€3m

Public trust in expert opinion is being put to the test as a part of a €3 million Horizon 2020 project

2019

Professor David Farrell received the ‘Impact Award’ at the 2019 IRC Researcher of the Year awards

€2m

€2m ERC Consolidator grant for MISFIRES - The aim of the project is to make healthcare markets more participatory and to innovate together for better markets

Public Policy

UCD Geary Institute's PublicPolicy.ie is the leading online platform for informing and debating public policy in Ireland

Research Units and Programmes

UCD Connected Politics Lab

Interdisciplinary hub for researchers using computational methods to study politics and society, hosted by UCD College of Social Sciences and Law.

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New Political Economy of Europe

UCD Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the Dublin European Institute, dedicated to advancing new teaching and research in European political economy.

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UCD Centre for Sustainable Development Studies

Interdisciplinary platform promoting and fostering research, education and policy outreach on sustainable development, with UN Economic and Social Council status.

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PERITIA: Policy, Expertise and Trust

Interdisciplinary ERC project helping citizens and policymakers learn to trust trustworthy expertise, to enhance trust in a better democratic governance for the future of Europe. Led by UCD School of Philosophy.

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UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy

World-class expertise in a wide-ranging set of disciplines across Social Sciences and Law, Health and Agricultural Sciences and Business.

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UCD SPIRe Working Papers Series

Access pre-publication versions of academic articles or book chapters from UCD School of Politics and International Relations.

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UCD RePEc Archive Collection

Full text open access versions of journal articles, conference papers, working papers and other UCD research outputs in the global Research Papers in Economics archive.

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UCD Behavioural Science and Public Policy

Centre for research and collaboration on integrating behaviourally-informed ideas into public policy, located in the UCD Geary Institute.

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Labour Politics and the EU's New Economic Governance (NEG) Regime

ERC project to assess the impact of NEG on employment relations and the provision of healthcare, water, and transport services, as well as the feedback effects on NEG caused by countervailing collective action of labour movements.

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MISFIRES

EU H2020 ERC project on market failures in healthcare, seeking to make healthcare markets more participatory and to innovate together for better markets, led from UCD College of Business.

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UCD Centre for Human Rights

Bringing together the disciplines of law, political science, social justice, education, sociology and the humanities to provide a unique interdisciplinary environment for research collaboration and public outreach.

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Environmental Regulation Research Group

ENVREG seeks to stimulate and support research into and critical debate on environmental regulation and governance at national, European and international levels.

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UCD Centre for Gender, Feminisms and Sexualities

Interdisciplinary platform spanning Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences to foster and facilitate multi-disciplinary research and collaboration focused on the changing construction of gender and gender relations and theories of power, identities and sexualities.

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PROPERTY [IN]JUSTICE

Land, Property and Spatial Justice in International Law (PROPERTY[IN]JUSTICE) investigates the role of international law in creating spatial justice and injustice through its conception of property rights in land.  

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Impact

Prof Michelle Norris: Funding Social Housing for Low Income Households After Ireland's Economic Crisis

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Prof Gavin Barrett: Democracy in the European Union – getting it right

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Prof David Farrell: Including citizens in discussions over constitutional reform

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Featured Researchers

Assoc Prof Aidan Regan

Expert of UCD SPIRe and director of UCD's Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in the New Political Economy of Europe, focused on  political economy from the comparative politics tradition.

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Prof David Farrell

Chair of Politics and Head of UCD School of Politics and international Relations, specialised in democratic innovtion (elections, electoral systems), political parties, deliberation, the representative role of members of parliament.

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Prof Maria Baghramian

Head of UCD School of Philosophy, specialised in the philosophy of language, contemporary American philosophy, relativism and rationality, pragmatism, philosophy of the mind and cognitive science.

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Prof Susi Geiger

Full Professor of Marketing and Market Studies at UCD College of Business, specialised in complex regulated markets, especially technology and healthcare markets. 

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When one side stays home: A joint model of turnout and vote choice

  • Assoc Prof Johan A Elkink, Dr Sarah Parlane, Prof Thomas Sattler

A theoretical model considering referendums and voter turnout predicts that voters who generally prefer one of the two possible referendum outcomes, but who are relatively uncertain about the consequences of their preferred option, tend to abstain from voting. 

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Publications

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July 2016

European Monetary Integration and the Incompatibility of National Varieties of Capitalism

Journal of Common Market Studies

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September 2016

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

Party Politics

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March 2019

The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation

Science

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February 2019

Housing prices and wealth inequality in Western Europe

West European Politics

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