Browsing Economic and Social Review by Author "Mair, Peter"

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    • Labour and the Irish party system revisited - party competition in the 1920s 

      Mair, Peter (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      In the 1969 General Election the Labour Party received more votes than at any other time in its electoral history. Nevertheless, despite this success, Labour continues to be one of the smallest social democratic parties ...

    • Single transferable vote and the Irish general election of 1977 

      Mair, Peter; Maguire, Maria (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      In an STV contest, too many names on a ballot paper can confuse voters and compound vote leakage (Mair and Laver, 1975), and we can assume that this did happen in the case of the Coalition. Whereas Fianna Fail nominated ...