Dr Matthew Kerby
BA (Concordia), MA (Carleton) Ph.D. (Dublin)
Senior Lecturer
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
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+61 2 6125 1806
Areas of expertise
- Comparative Government And Politics 160603
- Political Science 1606
Research interests
- Political elites
- Westminster parliamentary systems
- Ministerial careers
- Canadian politics
- Irish politics
Biography
Matthew Kerby is a senior lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University where he researches and teaches courses on political elites and methods.
Researcher's projects
I am currently working on a number of research projects. I encourage prospective students to contact me if they are interested in researching related topics at the HDR and honours levels.
- I am working with Alex Marland, Mireile Lalancette and Jared Wesley on a SSHRC-funded project to examine the way that media interprets and portrays party switching and party switchers.
- I am working on a SSHRC-funded project led by Jennifer Curtin and Linda Trimble that examines the career paths and media portrayle of female premiers in the Canadian provinces and Australian states.
- I am working with Feodor Snagovnsky and Marija Taflaga on a project that explores the electorability of parliamentary/ministerial staffers.
- Keith Dowding, Jennifer Curtin and I are researching intra-election ministerial promotion and demotion in Westminster parliamentary systems
- Rosalind Raddatz and I are conducting research on violence against refugee children in Kenya
- Feodor Snagovsky and I are working on research that empirically establishes links between political career typologies and post ministerial/political careers.
Publications
- Raddatz, R. and M. Kerby, Far from Home, Far from Safe: State Violence against Unaccompanied Refugee Children Seeking Asylum in Kenya, Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 35, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 16–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feaa017
- Kerby, M., & Snagovsky, F. (2021). Not All Experience is Created Equal: MP Career Typologies and Ministerial Appointments in the Canadian House of Commons, 1968–2015. Government and Opposition, 56(2), 326-344. doi:10.1017/gov.2019.29
- Taflaga, M & Kerby, M 2020, 'Who Does What Work in a Ministerial Office: Politically Appointed Staff and the Descriptive Representation of Women in Australian Political Offices, 1979-2010', Political Studies, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 463-485.
- Snagovsky, F & Kerby, M 2019, 'Political Staff and the Gendered Division of Political Labour in Canada', Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 616-637.
- Snagovsky, F & Kerby, M 2018, 'The Electoral Consequences of Party Switching in Canada: 1945-2011', Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 425-485pp.
- Jäckle, S & Kerby, M 2018, 'Temporal Methods in Political Elite Studies', in Heinrich BestJohn Higley (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Political Elites, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 115-133.
- Tremblay, M, Stockemer, D, Pelletier, R et al 2015, 'The ministerial careers in Quebec: Is there difference between the women and the men?', Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 51-78pp.
- Kerby, M & Marland, A 2015, 'Media Management in a Small Polity: Political Elites' Synchronized Calls to Regional Talk Radio and Attempted Manipulation of Public Opinion Polls', Political Communication, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 356-376.
- Kerby, M, 2014, 'Ministerial Careers in Canada', in Keith Dowding and Patrick Dumont (ed.), The Selection of Ministers around the World, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 264-282.
- Kerby, M. 2015. Ministerial (dis)advantage in the 2015 Canadian Federal Election, in Canadian Election Analysis 2015: Communication, Strategy, and Democracy. Accessed from http://www.ubcpress.ca/CanadianElectionAnalysis2015.
- Marland, A & Kerby, M, eds, 2014, First Among Unequals The Premier, Politics, and Policy in Newfoundland and Labrador, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, Canada.
- Kerby, M & Blidook, K 2014, 'Party Policy Positions in Newfoundland and Labrador: Expert Survey Results in the Buildup to the 2011 Provincial Election', American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 400-414.
- Kerby, M 2014, 'Hatching, matching, and dispatching: Cabinet management and ministerial duration under Danny Williams', in Alex Marland and Matthew Kerby (ed.), First Among Unequals: The Premier, Politics, and Policy in Newfoundland and Labrador, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, Canada, pp. 121-143.
- Kerby, M & Banfield, A 2014, 'The determinants of voluntary judicial resignation in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand', Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 335-357.
- Kerby, M 2011, 'Combining the Hazards of Ministerial Appointment AND Ministerial Exit in the Canadian Federal Cabinet', Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 595-612.
- Bildook, K & Kerby, M 2011, 'Constituency influence on 'constituency members': The adaptability of roles to electoral realities in the canadian case', The Journal of Legislative Studies, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 327-339.
- Kerby, M & Blidook, K 2011, 'It's Not You, It's Me: Determinants of Voluntary Legislative Turnover in Canada', Legislative Studies Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 621-643.
