Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference 2015 Gresham Metropole Hotel Cork, 16 – 18 October 2015 The annual conference of the PSAI will take place in Cork over the weekend 16 – 18 October 2015. Paper proposals are invited from all areas of the discipline. A detailed list of themes is included below and…
Prof Eduardo Silva will deliver the inaugural Maynooth University Visiting Scholar Lecture: “Learning from Latin America: Lessons from the periphery in a time of austerity” on Tuesday, 5th May 2015, with responses from Dr Mary Murphy, Maynooth University Department of Sociology and Dr David Begg, former General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. The evening begins with a reception in Pugin Hall at 6.00pm, with…
Prof. Eduardo Silva, Tulane University, this year’s Maynooth University Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Posted on behalf of Dr. Barry Cannon and Dr. Mary P. Murphy, National University of Ireland Maynooth. This blog presents the arguments from a paper published in Irish Political Studies by the authors. Free access to the paper is available for the…
Posted on behalf of Dr Anne O’Brien, National University of Ireland Maynooth. This blog presents the arguments from a paper published in Irish Political Studies by the author. Free access to the paper is available for the month of March at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07907184.2014.922960#abstract Media depictions of women in Irish politics are far from unproblematic. The…
Posted on behalf of Dr Siobhan O’Sullivan, School of Applied Social Studies University College Cork, Dr Amy Healy, NUI Maynooth, and Prof Michael Breen, Faculty of Arts, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. This blog presents the arguments from a paper published in Irish Political Studies by the authors. Free access to the paper is…
Election Institutions and Electoral Integrity 16 October 2014 NUI Merrion Square All Welcome. Please email t.reidy@ucc.ie to confirm attendance (for catering purposes). 10.00 – 11.15 Evaluating Electoral Institutions and Administration Andrew Reynolds, (University of North Carolina) (co-authors: Jorgen Elklit and Pippa Norris) Why Electoral Integrity Matters: Measurement and Consequences Carolien VanHam (University of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Irish Politics Forum 