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Dr Richard Dunphy

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Email: r.a.g.dunphy@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: + 44 (0) 1382 384590

Dr Richard Dunphy teaches courses on Contemporary Irish politics and Gender, Power and Sexuality at Honours level, and is available for supervision of undergraduate dissertations in contemporary sexual politics and in Irish politics. He was born in Omagh, Northern Ireland in 1960. In 1982 he graduated with a BA Hons degree in politics and economics from Trinity College, University of Dublin. He then took an MA in political philosophy from the National University of Ireland (1983) and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (1987). He was Lecturer in Modern History at University College, Cork, from 1987 to 1990. He joined the Department of Politics at Dundee University as Lecturer in 1990 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1996.

Richard Dunphy's principal research interests are in Irish politics, the European Left, and sexual politics. More information on his publications and books can be found below.

Teaching

Undergraduate Modules

Research

Richard Dunphy's main areas of past and on-going research lie in the fields of Irish politics (mainly the Republic of Ireland- both the study of political parties and the study of gender relations); Sexual Politics; and the impact of processes of European Integration and globalisation on parties of the European Left.  In recent years, he has been engaged in collaborative research projects (with Professor Tim Bale, Sussex University) on the experiences of small left-wing parties in coalition governments, and (with Dr Luke March, Edinburgh University) on the transnational European Left Party. He has signed a contract with Manchester University Press to write a book (co-authored with Luke March) on the European Left Party. Dr March and Dr Dunphy are planning a series of articles on left party cooperation in Europe and have applied for several research grants to help launch a network of scholars working on the European Left, supported by a web site.

Publications

Books

The European Left Party: A Case Study in Transnational Party-building, with Luke March (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013) [forthcoming]

The European Mosaic, ed. with David Gowland and Charlotte Lythe, 3rd edn (London: Pearson, 2006)

Contesting Capitalism? Left Parties and European Integration (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004)

Globalisation, Sustainability and the European Union, ed. with John Barry and Brian Baxter (London: Routledge, 2004)

Sexual Politics, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000)

The Making of Fianna Fáil Power in Ireland, 1923-48 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)

Selected articles/chapters

'Ireland', in The Routledge Handbook of European Elections, ed. by Donatella Viola  (London: Routledge, 2013) [forthcoming]

`De Parias a participants’, in Les Partis de la Gauche anticapitaliste en Europe, ed. By Jean-Michel De Waele and Daniel-Louis Seiler (Paris: Editions Economica, 2012) [Co-authored with Tim Bale]

'The Radical Left in Coalition Government: Towards a comparative measurement of success and failure', Party Politics, 17: 4 (2011), 488-504 [Co-authored with Tim Bale]

'In from the cold? Left Parties decide and Government Involvement', Comparative European Politics, 9 (2011) 269-291 [Co-authored with Tim Bale]

'A Poisoned Chalice? The Finnish Left Alliance and the Experience of Government Office, in Left Parties in National Governments, ed. by Jonathan Olsen, Daniel Hough and Michael Hoss (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

'Red Flag Still Flying: Explaining AKEL - Europe's Most Successful Communist Party', Party Politics, 13:3 (2007), 287-304 [Co-authored with Tim Bale]

'In search of an identity: Finland's Left Alliance and the experience of coalition government', Contemporary Politics, 13:1 (2007), 37-55

'Fianna Fáil and the Working Class', in Politics and the Irish Working Class 1830-1945, ed. by Fintan Lane and Donal O'Drisceoil (London: Routledge, 2004)

'Sexual Politics Revisited', Sexualities, 7:4 (2004), 502-8

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