Fiona Buckley

Dr Fiona Buckley is a lecturer in the Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork, Ireland specialising in gender politics. Fiona is a graduate of Queen's University Belfast being conferred with a Phd in Political Science in 2016. Fiona's research is largely focused on gender and cabinet government, women’s political candidacy, and gender quotas, but she has also published on Irish politics, electoral administration and voting behaviour. Fiona's work has been published in a number of leading political science journals, and she is the editor of three books Politics and Gender in Ireland: The Quest for Political Agency (with Yvonne Galligan, published be Routledge in 2015); Electoral Management; Institutions and Practices in an Established Democracy (with Theresa Reidy, published be Routledge in 2017); and The Road to 5050: Gender Quotas for Ireland (with Edel Clancy, Colette Finn and Margaret O'Keeffe, published in 2012). In 2018, Fiona will be a Visiting Research Fellow on the Electoral Integrity Project in the University of Sydney.

Selected publications:

Fiona Buckley and Yvonne Galligan (2018) 'Women in Politics' in John Coakley and Michael Gallagher (eds.) Politics in the Republic of Ireland, Routledge/Taylor and Francis.

Fiona Buckley and Mary Brennan (2017) 'The Irish Legislative Gender Quota: The First Election', Administration, 65 (2) pp. 15 – 35

Fiona Buckley, Yvonne Galligan and Claire McGing (2016) 'Women and the Election: Assessing the impact of Gender Quotas' in Michael Gallagher and Michael Marsh (eds.) How Ireland Voted 2016: The Election that Nobody Won, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan