• Going alone and taking the independent route: new insights on female candidate emergence 

  Buckley, Fiona (Bristol University Press, 2020-05-26)

  Using a novel approach - examining independent women and comparing them with their party counterparts - this article offers new insights on candidate emergence, recruitment and election of women, within and beyond political ...
• Women and politics in Ireland: The road to sex quotas 

  Buckley, Fiona (Taylor & Francis Group, 2013-09-10)

  This article tells the story of how and why legislative candidate sex quotas, more commonly known as gender quotas, were adopted by the Irish Parliament in July 2012. In so doing, it reviews both internal party equality ...
• Will legislative gender quotas increase female representation in Ireland? A feminist institutionalism analysis 

  Buckley, Fiona; Mariani, Mack; White, Timothy J. (Taylor & Francis Group, 2014-12-13)

  Informed by insights from feminist institutionalism, this article considers the effect of various aspects of the Irish political system on women’s candidate selection and election, and discusses the extent to which the new ...
• Is local office a springboard for women to Dáil Éireann? 

  Buckley, Fiona; Mariani, Mack; McGing, Claire; White, Timothy (Taylor & Francis Group, 2015-08-11)

  Previous research has found the single transferable vote electoral system is relatively friendly to women candidates. Despite this, female representation in the Irish Parliament remains substantially lower than in most ...
• Ballot paper design: evidence from an experimental study at the 2009 local elections 

  Reidy, Theresa; Buckley, Fiona (Taylor & Francis Group, 2015-10-30)

  The overriding principle of ballot design is that it should not confer any a priori advantage to one candidate over another. Ballot format should not determine or condition an election outcome. Yet, there is a sizeable ...

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