The European Periphery and European Integration
The European Periphery and European Integration: A one day conference Newman House,85 St. Stephen’s Green,DublinTuesday, 3 December 2013
Après la guerre: Constituency level analyses of post-Budget opinion polls
Adrian Kavanagh, 26th October 2013 (with updates) The opinion polls taken place in the wake of the recent Budget have brought mixed news for the government parties, with some polls seeing these parties leaking support to the opposition parties but especially to the Independents and Others grouping. However the more recent Sunday Times/Behaviour & Attitudes, Irish…
Explaining media coverage of the 2011 election
There is an assumption in the literature on the media coverage of elections that it is being Americanised or ‘dumbed down’. Election coverage can be thought to vary on whether substantive policy issues are discussed or if the coverage centres on the likely result and/ or the parties’ electoral strategies. For instance in the last…
Seanad Referendum in Perspective
By Michael Marsh Another weekend of referendums is now over and the debate is well under way as to what the result means: what did the people say when they spoke? We have various evidence to go on: the polls, anecdotal evidence, and the nature of the campaign itself, but all these are flawed. The…
Referendum campaigns are not like election campaigns
This post is based on a brief talk I gave on October 10 at a post-mortem on the referendum organized by the Voters, Parties and Elections section of the Political Studies Association of Ireland. The more recent referendums on Seanad abolition and the Court of Appeal should give political parties – and particularly their back…
Perspective on Seanad Abolition
By Vanessa Liston (CiviQ.eu) Opinion polls are built into the fabric of our political system. We look to them as a fountain of knowledge on people’s minds, as we search for clues and cues in meandering a fractious course to the polling booth. Yet, given the outcome of the Seanad referendum, that quite dramatically violated…
Seanad reform – what’s on offer?
Post by John Carroll During the past few weeks, we’ve heard much about the Zappone/Quinn and Crowne Seanad bills offering a roadmap for non-constitutional Seanad reform. Apparently these Bills can be the “legislative template” for Seanad reform that could be put in place within 75 days yet surprisingly few people (beyond Richard Humphreys and Eoin O’Malley) seem to…
