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Turnout isn’t even a symptom, so let’s stop the hand wringing

We’re all worried about the decline in turnout, aren’t we? Politicians, academics and other worthies march up to Glenties every year to worry about our failing politics, and to self-flagellate about our failure to reform it. And it’s not just us we’re worried about this year. With the results of the 2014 European elections we…

July 24, 2014 in Election, Electoral Reform, policy making.

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