Position: Distinguished Professor
School and/or Centres: School of Politics & International Relations
Position: Associate
School and/or Centres: The Australian Politics Studies Centre
Email: Ian.McAllister@anu.edu.au
Location: Level 3, RSSS Building, 146 Ellery Crescent
Qualification: <p>BA (CNAA) MSc PhD (Strath) FASSA FRSE</p>
Researcher profile: https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/ian-mcallister
Website: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/mcallister-i
Ian McAllister is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The Australian National University, and from 1997 until 2004 was Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU. He has previously held chairs at the University of New South Wales and the University of Manchester and has held other academic appointments at The Queen’s University of Belfast and the University of Strathclyde. He was President of the British Politics Group 2001-2002, has edited the Australian Journal of Political Science since 2004, and was chair of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems project from 2003 to 2008.
Responsibilities
Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen; 2011-Associate editor, Parliamentary Affairs. 2010-Member, editorial board, West European Politics. 2010-Chair, Australian Electoral Commission Research Advisory Board 2009-Chair of the Advisory Board, Leverhulme-funded project ‘Compromise After Conflict’,University of Aberdeen. 2009-Member, British Election Study Advisory Board. 2008-Member, editorial board, Journal of Politics. 2007-Member, editorial board, Electoral Studies. 2006-10,Chair, ARK Advisory Board, University of Ulster. 2008-09, Chair, International Conflict Research Advisory Board, University of Ulster. 2004-Member, editorial board, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 2004-11,OzReader, Australian Research Council 2003-10, Editor, Australian Journal of Political Science. 2003-09, Chair, planning committee, Comparative Study of Electoral Systems 2002-Member, editorial board, Irish Political Studies. 2000-Member, editorial board, European Journal of Political Research. 2000-02, President, British Politics Group, American Political Science Association. 1998-Member, executive committee, International Committee for Research on Elections. 1998-00, Member, executive committee, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association. 1997-2008, Member, technical advisory committee, National Drug Strategy Household Survey, Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services. 1996-97, Member, steering committee, 1998 Northern Ireland Election Survey, UK Economic and Social Research Council. 1995-99, Member, editorial board, Australian Journal of Political Science. 1995-00, 04-06, Member, executive committee, British Politics Group, American Political Science Association. 1994- Member, editorial board, Party Politics. 1994-95, 00-09 Member, advisory committee, National Drug Strategy Household Survey, Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services. 1989-95, Editor, Australian Journal of Political Science. 1987-Director, Australian Election Study. 1985-89, Member, editorial board, Politics.
Comparative political behaviour, elections and party systems. Australian, British, Northern Ireland and postcommunist politics. Survey and quantitative methodology
Ian McAllister has four main current research projects. First, his work on Australian politics involves co-directing the Australian Election Study, a national survey of political opinion conducted after each federal election since 1987. The next survey, funded by the ARC, is due after the 2010 federal election. He is also involved in a major ARC-funded study of Australian public opinion towards defence and foreign policy. (2) Postcommunist politics and the problems of democratization is a collaborative project with Stephen White (University of Glasgow), and is funded by the ARC. A book length monograph on Russian political opinion, tentatively titled The Russian Voter, is in preparation. (3) His interests in Northern Ireland politics involve examining trends in public opinion and the relationship between social divisions and political cleavages. A book length study (with Bernadette Hayes, University of Aberdeen) is nearing completion. (4) The study of comparative political behavior involves examining such issues as how accountability and representation are structured by political institutions, and as part of this work, he has edited special issues of the journals Electoral Studies and Party Politics. He is also completing a book length study on parties and party government with Russell J Dalton (University of California Irvine) and David M. Farrell (University College Dublin) to be published by Cambridge University Press.
2011 Lifetime Member, Australasian Political Studies Association. 2011 Leon Weaver Award for Best Paper in Comparative Politics, American Political Science Association. 2006 Honorary Professor, University of Aberdeen 2004 Winner, Australian Publishers’ Association Award for Best Scholarly Reference Book for Ian McAllister, Steve Dowrick and Riaz Hassan, The Cambridge Handbook of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.