Browsing Political Science (Scholarly Publications) by Date of Publication
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Electing Women to the Dáil: Gender Cues and the Irish Voter.
(2011)At no time in history has the number of women elected to Dail ireann surpassed 14 per cent of the total membership. In spite of significant social changes, the use of a proportional electoral system and no obvious bias ... -
Second-Order Effects Plus Pan-European Political Swings: An Analysis of European Parliament Elections Across Time
(Elsevier, 2011)After seven waves of European Parliament elections and European Union enlargement to 27 states, the time is ripe to analyse the temporal robustness of the second-order model. We pool all the elections in a single evaluation ... -
The Concept of Picking
(2011)Human behavior, like everything else, has causes. Most of the time, those causes can be described as reasons. Human beings perform actions because they have reasons for performing them. They are capable of surveying the ... -
Lobbying the European Commission: Open or secret?
(2011)Little transparency in the EU black?box of policy making means that there is limited citizen knowledge of which interest groups are operating in Brussels, what they seek to influence, how much resources they put into ... -
Citizens Assembly
(2011)We the Citizens set out with optimism, and indeed hope, to test the value to our democracy of including citizens more directly in decision-making. That hope has been truly vindicated. We now have unequivocal proof that ... -
The parliamentary election in Ireland, February 2011
(Elsevier, 2012)The three-party coalition government formed in 2007 between Fianna Fail, the Green Party and the Progressive Democrats appeared to have a bulletproof majority, and there was every reason to expect that, like its two immediate ... -
Economic voting in a crisis: the Irish election of 2011
(2012)The paper explores a question raised by the 2011 Irish election, which saw an almost unprecedented decline in support for a major governing party after an economic collapse that necessitated an ECB/IMF ?bailout?. This seems ... -
The Dimensionality Of Political Space: Epistemological And Methodological Considerations
(2012)Spatial characterizations of agents’ preferences lie at the heart of many theories of political competition. These give rise to explicitly dimensional interpretations. Parties define and differentiate themselves in terms ... -
Taxation, Democracy and State-Building: how does sequencing matter?
(Quality of Government Institute, 2012)What is the relationship between democracy and taxation, under conditions of `reverse? sequencing? Existing theories about taxation and democracy have presumed this relationship to be positive, but they have largely been ... -
Food Security and Elite-Ruler Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the impact of democracy on public goods provision
(2012)How does democracy impact on public goods provision? This question has provoked a wealth of empirical and theoretical investigation, but few answers that satisfactorily explain emerging patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most ... -
The Lottery as a Democratic Institution
(The Policy Institute, 2013)Proponents of random selection in politics have identified at least eight potential contributions that the practice can make to the political process. These are: descriptive representation, prevention of corruption and/or ... -
Credible Enforcement before Credible Commitment: Exploring the Importance of Sequencing
(2013)States that are both strong and democratic are the most capable of delivering human development. Existing rational choice accounts of collective action and credible commitment have provided us with the answer as to why ... -
A Conservative revolution:: the electoral response to economic crisis in Ireland
(2014)The 2011 election in Ireland was one of the most dramatic elections in European postwar history in terms of net electoral volatility. In some respects the election overturned the traditional party system. Yet it was a ...