Professor Allison McCulloch

About

Allison McCulloch is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada.
Her research considers the politics of deeply divided societies, with a specific emphasis on the design of political power-sharing (consociational) institutions. This includes the incentive structures for ethnopolitical moderation and extremism that power-sharing offers, how power-sharing governments handle political crises, and how power-sharing arrangements can be made more inclusive of identities beyond the ethnonational divide.

Her publications include the forthcoming Power-Sharing in Europe: Past Practice, Present Cases, Future Directions (co-edited with Soeren Keil, Palgrave Macmillan), Power Sharing: Empirical and Normative Challenges (co-edited with John McGarry, Routledge, 2017), Power-Sharing and Political Stability in Deeply Divided Societies (Routledge, 2014), as well as recent journal articles on veto rights, gender and power-sharing, and the role of international mediation in the adoption and maintenance of power-sharing arrangements.

She currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics and as the vice-chair of Research Committee 14 on Politics and Ethnicity, International Political Science Association.