Ian McAllister FASSA FRSE (born 2 December 1950, Belfast, United Kingdom) is the Distinguished Professor of political science at the Australian National University.
It looks at the long term trends as a result of the changing electoral institutions party loyalties, trends in identification, the impact of education expansion, levels of political knowledge, the role of the mass media and to what extent political campaigns matter, social background and demography including gender, age and generation, religion, ethnicity and the urban-rural divide, the impact of class, economic beliefs, social values and political leadership at elections.
In 1992 he discovered a regional effect in British general elections by controlling for social compositional factors and constituency characteristics.
Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen Danielle Chubb and Ian McAllister, Australian public opinion, defence and foreign policy: attitudes and trends since 1945, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 Ian McAllister, The Australian Voter, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2011 David M. Farrell and Ian McAllister, The Australian Electoral System: Origins, Variations and Consequences, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2005 Ian McAllister, Steve Dowrick and Riaz Hassan, editors, The Cambridge Handbook of the Social Sciences in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2004 (Winner, Australian Publishers' Association Award for Best Scholarly Reference Book, 2004).
Voters Begin to Choose: From Closed Class to Open Elections in Britain, Sage Publications, London and Beverly Hills, Calif., 1986 Ian McAllister and Richard Rose, The Nation-Wide Competition for Votes: The British General Election of 1983, Frances Pinter, London and Columbia University Press, New York, 1984 Richard Rose and Ian McAllister, United Kingdom Facts, Macmillan, London and Holmes and Meier, New York, 1982 Ian McAllister, The Northern Ireland Social Democratic and Labour Party: Political Opposition in a Divided Society, Macmillan, London, 1977