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Elevating ‘expertise’ is wrong and dangerous

By Eoin O’Malley (10 May 2011) How many times in making an argument do we rely on the eminence of a person holding a position to back up our own point of view? You’ll regularly read in the pages of the Irish Times that a ‘Nobel-prize winning economist says X’ and we are expected to…

May 10, 2011 in Government reform, Politics.

Seminar on Civil Society and Public Policy in Ireland

Posted by David Farrell The Martin McEvoy Annual Seminar Series 2010 is entitled Politics, Participation and Power – Civil Society and Public Policy in Ireland. This year’s series will examine the role of civil society in public policy formulation. The seminars will be held in the Bea Orpen Building in Dublin City University on at…

October 8, 2010 in Politicalreform admin.

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