Career: Ian McAllister has been Professor of Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences, Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University (ANU) since 1997 and was Director of the School from 1997–2004. Professor McAllister began his academic career as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies at The Queen’s University of Belfast from 1976–77. Then he was Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow from 1977–80. He moved to Australia in 1980 to take up a post as Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the Research School of Social Sciences of the ANU. In 1983 he was made Senior Research Fellow. In 1985 he was appointed Professor of Politics at University College, University of New South Wales, a post he held until 1996. He was briefly Professor of Government at the University of Manchester from 1996–97 until his appointment at the Institute of Advanced Studies. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and has held visiting positions at the Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine, the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research, Queen’s University of Belfast and the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick. In 2006 he was a POSC Fellow at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii, USA. Ian McAllister is Editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science (see url below) and is Chair of the Planning Committee for the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. He has been a Co-Director of the Australian Election Study since it was established in 1987.

Honours and awards: Honorary Professor, University of Aberdeen

Publications include: The Loyalties of Voters: A Lifetime Learning Model (co-author) 1990, Migrant Unemployment and Labour Market Programs (co-author) 1991, Drugs in Australian Society: Patterns, Attitudes and Policies (co-author) 1991, Political Behaviour: Citizens, Parties and Elites in Australia 1992, Dimensions of Australian Society (second edition; co-author) 1994, The Australian Political System (co-author) 1995, Australian Political Facts (second edition; co-author) 1997, How Russia Votes (co-author) 1997, The Australian Political System (second edition; co-author) 1998, The Cambridge Handbook of the Social Sciences in Australia (co-editor) (Australian Publishers’ Association Award for Best Scholarly Reference Book 2004) 2003, Attitude Matters: Public Opinion Towards Defence and Security 2005, The Australian Electoral System: Origins, Variations and Consequences (co-author) 2005; numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Room 2127, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia; Tel: +61 (0)2 6125-5553; Tel: +61 (0)416 249552 (mobile); Fax: +61 (0)2 6125-3051; Email: ian.mcallister@anu.edu.au ; Website: http://polsc.anu.edu.au/staff/mcallister/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10361146.asp/ .