Browsing Political Science by Subject "Electoral Politics"
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Campaign Spending and Electoral Integrity: Assessing the Plausibility of the Challenger Spending Efficacy Advantage in Irish & British Elections
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2020)Do incumbents lose ground to challengers even when their spending is evenly matched? Much of the literature points to a spending efficacy advantage for challengers (i.e. non-incumbents glean more from spending than ... -
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 ...