Series 1, Episode 44: How strong leaders can undermine the political parties they serve, with Professor Eoin O’Malley, Dublin City University

While organisations can in some circumstances benefit from “strong leaders”, their longer lasting impact is not always so beneficial. By considering politics and political parties, Eoin O’Malley and his colleague Despina Alexiadou of Strathclyde University examine how they strong leaders can ultimately end up undermining the very parties they lead.Eoin O'Malley is an Associate Professor in political science at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. There he teaches politics and public policy and is the Director of the BA in Economics, Politics and Law.Eoin’s research specialism is Irish politics and particularly the position of the Taoiseach or Prime Minister and cabinet government in Ireland, though he also does work on the Irish party system, media coverage of Irish elections and public policy. His most recent research is on the office of Taoiseach (prime minister).Eoin has authored over forty articles in peer-reviewed journals, a textbook, Contemporary Ireland, published by Palgrave Macmillan, and co-edited four other books on Irish politics. His most recent book is Resilient Reporting: Media Coverage of Irish Elections since 1969. He is a former co-editor of Irish Political Studies and regular newspaper columnist and a frequent contributor to national debates.The article with Despina Alexiadou is available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3933864

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