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Daily Archives: February 18, 2011

Updated ‘poll of polls’ with with Red-C and Millward Brown Polls: FG-Labour government still most likely

Eoin O’Malley (19 February, 2011) We have a tendency to see new polls and take them as indicating some real change in the fortunes of the parties since the last comparable poll was taken, when possibly much of the variation is caused by differences in samples – the luck of the draw. One way to alleviate the…

February 18, 2011 in Election, opinion polls, Politics.

Power to the people? A summary of party proposals on Citizen Assemblies.

Posted by Matt Wall, Feb 18th, 2011. It’s amazing how rapidly an idea can take off. I first heard of Citizen Assemblies in 2009 when I was doing research work for the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Constitution. The Committee was looking at mechanisms to reform our electoral system. Broadly speaking, the reason for using…

February 18, 2011 in Constitution, Dail Reform, Electoral Reform, New Republic, Referenda.

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