Samuel A. T. Johnston
I am currently an ERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin, having completed my PhD in Trinity College Dublin in April 2023. My research is in the field of comparative politics, focusing on parties and political behaviour in advanced industrialised democracies. More specifically, I use cutting-edge survey experiments, quantitative text analysis, and elite interviews to examine how the decision-making of politicians and parties is shaped by their institutional environment (especially the EU) and social norms. This research has been published in a variety of academic journals, including West European Politics, Party Politics, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Irish Political Studies. My teaching experience strongly reflects this research agenda, as I have taught both undergraduate and Masters modules on the EU, party politics, and Irish and Northern Irish politics.
Recent Publications
Johnston, Samuel A. T. (2025). ‘Reduced Urgency, Fewer Options? How the EU Influences Kin-State Politics in Contemporary Europe’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 51:19, 5175-5193
Johnston, Samuel A. T. (2024). 'Fixing the Boundary of a Nation: How the European Union Influences Nationalism in Contemporary Europe', Comparative European Politics, 22, 538-555.
Johnston, Samuel A. T. and Harrington, Sinéad C. M. (2024). 'Campaigning in the Dark: Theorising Campaign Strategies from the 2022 Seanad By-Election', Irish Political Studies, 39:1, 1-23.