Posted on behalf of the Royal Irish Academy Royal Irish Academy Discourse: ‘International Human Rights and Democratic Public Ethics’ by Professor Richard Bellamy University of Limerick, 6 June 2014 at 18:00 We are pleased to invite you to attend a Royal Irish Academy Discourse by Professor Richard Bellamy (European University Institute), with a response by…
The Quiet Protest Vote – Intra-party Councillor Replacement in #le14
Post by Dr. Michael Courtney, TCD The big stories of this year’s local elections are the collapse of the Labour party vote and the ongoing rise of Sinn Féin. To a large degree, the surge in Sinn Féin’s percentage of the vote and number of councillors is attributed to a protest vote. The narrative goes…
Minor Shuffling in the North’s European Election
Posted on behalf of Gerard McCann and Paul Hainsworth This blog builds upon a series of reports on the European Parliament elections in Northern Ireland by the authors. Previous reports are available free online in a virtual issue of Irish Political Studies on Local and European Parliament elections http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/pgas/fips_elections As expected with the European elections…
Interpreting the EP elections in Ireland in 2014
Posted on behalf of Dr Stephen Quinlan Voters head to the polls on Friday for European and local elections, the first nationwide election since the 2011 Presidential contest (excluding referndums). Interpretations of what the result will mean for each of the parties, domestic politics, and what it may tell us about Irish people’s attitudes towards…
Will independents bring ‘real change’?
Posted by Eoin O’Malley, Dublin City University Parties are increasingly unpopular. The recently released European Social Survey (wave 6) shows parties are distrusted by 85% of Irish people (compared with parliament and the government distrusted by 75% and 77% respectively). Ireland isn’t that unusual; Most countries show a large majority lacking trust in parties. Danes,…
Local Elections 2014
Posted on behalf of Dr Aodh Quinlivan, UCC This blog builds upon a 2009 Local Election Report (co-authored with Dr Liam Weeks). The report is available to access free, online, in a virtual issue of Irish Political Studies on Local Government and European Parliament elections http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/pgas/fips_elections Local elections in Ireland are regarded as somewhat of…
Pooling Irish Opinion Polls: Introducing the Irish Polling Indicator
Posted by Tom Louwerse, Trinity College Dublin Note: the last Red C poll does not provide separate estimates for the Green Party and Others, therefore the OTH and GP line end in April. Opinion polls are a source of information for voters, parties and the media alike. Especially polls into the popularity of parties are usually…
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