Browsing by Author "Laver, Michael"
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Electing the President of the European Commission
(Trinity College Dublin, 1995)This paper is concerned with the legitimacy and accountability of decision-making in the European Union (EU). In the first half of the paper we argue that a straightforward and effective way to improve the legitimacy and ... -
Ireland - politics with some social bases - an interpretation based on survey data
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)Following on from the analysis of aggregate data on party choice in Ireland published in the last issue, this paper reports a re-analysis of a ten-year series of commercial opinion polls. The small sample sizes of the ... -
Ireland - politics with some social bases an interpretation based on aggregate data
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)Social scientists are currently forced to rely on aggregate data and commercial opinion polls when they analyse the social bases of party choice in Ireland. The first of a pair of articles, this paper deals with a re-analysis ... -
Mapping the Irish policy space: voter and party spaces in preferential elections
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2005)In this note we map the Irish policy space, locating both voters and parties on the most salient policy dimensions in Ireland. Estimates of the voter locations are based on the Irish National Election Survey (INES), ... -
Measuring patterns of party support in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)There is no doubt that the use of 'sociological' classes rather than market research categories produces a clearer patterning of party support in Galway West. There is no reason to suppose that this finding would be any ... -
A New Electoral system for Ireland?
(Trinity College Dublin, 1998)A New Electoral system for Ireland? looks at the possibility of doing away with the current Single Transferable Vote electoral system in Ireland. It explores the impact of replacing STV with an alternative widely favoured ...
