With PSAI Conference 2017 due to take place this coming weekend at Dublin City University, the Irish Politics Forum will be hosting a series of posts this week from participants at the conference.

Each post offers a preview of the paper and presentation that will be available in full through the conference. All authors presenting at the conference were invited to submit to this series.

To find all of the posts in this series, check out the ‘PSAI 2017’ category on this site and don’t forget to follow @psaitweets and #psai17 on Twitter.