Authoritarian predispositions are associated with a preference for order, certainty and security. Using data from European Social Surveys (ESS), we show that this association extends to attitudes towards redistributive ...

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 ...

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 ...

A variety of decisions seem to require resort to a coin toss, die roll, or the drawing of straws?in other words, a fair lottery. This raises the question of what features distinguish fair lotteries from alternative procedures. ...

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 ...

Well-established methods exist for measuring party positions, but reliable means for es- timating intra-party preferences remain underdeveloped. While most efforts focus on es- timating the ideal points of individual ...