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Which government best reflects the ‘will of the people’?

By Rory Costello, University of Limerick Government formation is not just a numbers game. Political parties campaign to a large part on policy, and we must assume that people who vote for a party do so as an endorsement of those policies. If we view the new Dáil as representative of the spread of views…

March 1, 2016 in Election, government formation.

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