Dr Shane Martin

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Dr. Shane Martin,
School of Law and Government,
DCU, Dublin 9, Ireland
E-mail: shane.martin@dcu.ie
Web: sgmartin.org

About to be published/recently published work

Journal/Book Projects:

Shane Martin, Thomas Saalfeld, and Kaare Strøm (2013) The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press (under contract).

Martin, Shane and Olivier Rozenberg, eds. (2012) The Roles and Function of Parliamentary Questions. London: Routledge.

Guest Editor (with Olivier Rozenberg) The Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. 17, No 3, September 2011

Refereed Publications :

Martin, Shane (forthcoming) "Why Electoral Systems Don’t Always Matter: The Impact of “Mega-seats” on Legislative Behavior in Ireland." Party Politics, Online First, March 2012.

Martin, Shane (2011) "Electoral Institutions, the Personal Vote and Legislative Organization." Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol 36, No 3, pp. 339-361.

Martin, Shane (2011) "Using Parliamentary Questions to Measure Constituency Focus: An Application to the Irish Case." Political Studies, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 472-488.

Martin, Shane (2011) "Parliamentary Questions, the Behaviour of Legislators, and the Function of Legislatures: An Introduction " The Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp.259-270.

Rozenberg, Olivier and Shane Martin (2011) "The Role and Function of Parliamentary Questions: An Assessment" The Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 394-404.

Martin, Shane (2010) "Electoral Rewards for Personal Vote Cultivation under PR-STV." West European Politics, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 369-380.

Martin, Shane (2009) "The Congressional Representation of Muslim-American Constituents." Politics and Religion, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 230-246.

Martin, Shane (2008) "Two Houses: Legislative Studies and the Atlantic Divide." PS: Political Science & Politics, 41, pp 557-565. Click here for the data used in this paper.

Book Chapters :

Martin, Shane (2011) "Monitoring Irish Government" in Eoin O'Malley and Muiris MacCarthaigh (ed.) Governing Ireland. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration.

Martin, Shane (2010) "The Committee S ystem" in Muiris MacCarthaigh and Maurice Manning (eds). In The Houses of the Oireachtas: Parliament in Ireland. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration.

O'Malley, Eoin and Shane Martin (2009) "The Government and the Taoiseach" in John Coakley and Michael Gallagher, eds. Politics in the Republic of Ireland, 5th edition. London: Routledge and PSAI Press.

Depauw, Sam and Shane Martin (2009) "Legislative Party Discipline and Cohesion in Comparative Perspective" in Giannetti, Daniela and Kenneth Benoit, eds. Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments in Parliamentary Democracies. London: Routledge.

Working Papers

Martin, Shane and Sam Sam Depauw (2011) 'The Impact of Multiparty Government on the Internal Organization of Legislatures.' Paper prepared for presentation at the 69th Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, March 31-April 3, 2011.

Martin, Shane (2011)The Parliamentary Representation of British Muslims.