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Understanding Election 2016: Perspectives from Eurobarometer 84
Guest Post by Dr. Stephen Quinlan, GESIS Leibniz Institute With the focus now firmly on government formation, academics and political number crunchers are also trying to discover why Irish people voted...
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Feminism, nationalism and the re-ordering of post-war political strategies:...
Guest Post from Dr Niall Gilmartin, Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth. The post draws from research published in Irish Political Studies and available free online until...
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Skipping ‘Left’ and ‘Right’
Guest post from Prof Donncha Kavanagh (UCD) donncha.kavanagh@ucd.ie Much media commentary on the general election has been framed around the notion that the Irish parliamentary system should finally...
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Workshop: Votes, Votes, Votes; at home, abroad and at 16
On 16 November 2016, there will be a one-day workshop looking at voting rights reform in Ireland. There will be two areas of focus; voting rights for emigrants and reducing the voting age to 16. The...
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Republic of Ireland – moves towards more direct democracy?
Donal O’Brolchain reviews pre/post- election developments on direct democracy The February 2016 election continues a pattern of nearly 50 years ie. voters have not re-elected an outgoing...
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Who supports gender quotas in Ireland?
Guest post from Lisa Keenan and Gail McElroy, Trinity College, Dublin. This blog presents the arguments from a paper published in Irish Political Studies by the authors. Free access to the paper is...
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Scottish Independence and a United Ireland: A Brexit game of Gaelic Games?
Guest post by Dr Anthony Costello (University College Cork) Nine months have passed since the British electorate voted to sever UK membership of the European Union (EU) and the Brexit negotiation...
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2017 French presidential elections: what do they mean for Ireland?
Guest post by Dr Emmanuelle Schon-Quinlivan (University College Cork) Ireland is currently, and will be for many years to come, absorbed by Brexit and its consequences for the Republic and the entire...
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Macron to face Le Pen in French election second round
Guest post by Dr Emmanuelle Schon-Quinlivan, Lecturer in European Politics at the Department of Government, University College Cork. As predicted by all the French pollsters, Macron and Le Pen are the...
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Irish Unity: A persuasive opportunity structure, a dissuasive reality
Guest post by Dr Anthony Costello, lecturer in EU policy-making, Comparative European Government and Politics, Conflict and Conflict Resolution, and Irish and Northern Irish Politics at the Department...
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