Browsing by Subject "Irish politics"
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Are Irish voters biased against female candidates? Evidence from the 2020 general election
(2021)Ireland is the first country in the world to apply a legislative gender quota under an STV electoral system. Since 2016, the quota has required parties to ensure that at least thirty percent of their candidates running in ... -
Brokerage or friendship? politics and networks in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)Studies of Irish politics have often emphasised clientelist relations between voters and politicians. A survey carried out in the 1970s indicates that the importance of politicians has been overstated. A significant ... -
The divorce referendum 2019
(2020)When Ireland removed the prohibition on divorce from its constitution in 1995 by way of a referendum, the result was achieved with a razor thin margin after a difficult campaign. The circumstances in which the 2019 referendum ... -
Double helix: two elites in politics and journalism in Ireland, 1870-1918
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Minor parties in Irish political life, 1922-1989
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)This article examines the role in Irish politics of parties other than the three "permanent" ones with a view to filling a recognised gap in political research. Minor parties are grouped into four loose categories on the ... -
The myth of the 'five bloods': from fiction to legal custom in the English royal courts in fourteenth-century Ireland
(2018)This paper examines two issues: misconceptions concerning English law in high medieval Ireland; and the invention and mutation of an exceptio (objection) in court which was based on a fabrication. The plea, or defensive ... -
The (un)changing Irish voter
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'An unfinished democracy': gender and political representation in the Republic of Ireland
(2022)Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries, beginning in 2012, has seen the commemoration of a period of significant social and political transformation. For scholars of gender and politics, it also provides the opportunity to take ... -
Women in political life: the case of the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2018)This dissertation investigates the sites of potential resistance to women's full participation in political life in the Republic of Ireland. The Irish case is an interesting one since the country has various features, for ...