Prestigious book prize for Professor Jim McAuley
Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:57:00 GMT
Professor Jim McAuley [pictured], Director of the Institute for Research and Citizenship and Applied Human Sciences (IRCAHS) was the recipient of a prestigious book prize at the 2015 meeting of the Political Studies Association of Ireland.
The co-authored study entitled The Democratic Unionist Party: From Protest to Power (Oxford University Press) has been awarded the 2015 Brian Farrell Book Prize, which is awarded annually by the Political Studies Association of Ireland for best book in political science. The book was the product of a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) that enabled Professor McAuley and his colleagues to carry out the first-ever survey of the DUP’s membership, canvassing their views on central issues such as power-sharing with republicans, religion, social matters, policing and security, plus attitudes towards other unionist groups.
Professor McAuley hopes to follow the success of the DUP book, with his forthcoming study of Ulster loyalists entitled Very British Rebels: The Culture and Politics of Ulster Loyalism, recently published by Bloomsbury.
