 |
| Home |
| IPS Journal |
| About PSAI |
| PSAI Fellowship |
| News |
| Conferences |
| Newsletter |
| Basil Chubb Prize |
| Brian Farrell Book Prize |
| Membership |
| Specialist Groups | Committee |
| Resources |
| Sitemap |
 |
News
As it becomes available, you can find here brief news items from the PSAI such as details of upcoming PSAI events, information on how PSAI can support its members, politics conferences and workshops in Ireland, prizes and new publications by PSAI members.
Launch of Iain McMenamin's 'If Money Talks, What Does It Say? Corruption and Business Financing of Political Parties’
On 6th March 2013, Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn launched ‘If Money Talks, What Does It Say? Corruption and Business Financing of Political Parties’ (Oxford University Press) at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. The book by Dublin City University (DCU) political scientist Dr Iain McMenamin considers why business contributes to political parties. Using case studies of Australia, Canada and Germany and data dating back to 1984, the book analyses the detailed processes involved in the business financing of parties. The picture features from left to right Ruairí Quinn,TD, Minister for Education and Skills, Dr Iain McMenamin, School of Law and Government, DCU and Professor Brian MacCraith, President of DCU.
New eBook - Citizens' Voices: Experiments in Democratic Renewal and Reform
An e-book Citizens' Voices, based on the Deliberative and participatory democracy specialist group's
symposium 'Beyond the ballot: diverse forms of citizen engagement between democratic elections' held in Dublin in March 2012, may be downloaded from the group's homepage.
PSAI Teaching and Learning Award 2011
The winner of the award for 2011 is Dr Brendan Flynn, NUI Galway for his contribution to teaching excellence in Politics. Further details are available here
The Brian Farrell book prize 2012
For Best Book Published in Political Science in 2011
The PSAI awards an annual prize for the best book published in political science by a member of the Political Studies Association of Ireland. The prize is awarded each year at the annual conference. The 2011 Brian Farrell Book Prize was awarded to Peter Shirlow, Jonathan Tonge, James McAuley and Catherine McGlynn, for their book 'Abandoning Historical Conflict? Former Political Prisoners and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland
The competition is open to single-authored and jointly-authored books written by PSAI members and published in 2011. Nominations for the book prize are sough each year in May.
The PSAI offers several schemes designed to support members of the Association:
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern with the authors of All Politics is Local Dr Liam Weeks and Dr Aodh Quinlivan.
A wide range of back issues of PSAI publications are now available for purchase by members. Subject to availability, the following publications can be obtained:
- Days of Blue Loyalty
- How Ireland Voted 1987
- How Ireland Voted 1989
- How Ireland Voted 1992
- Irish Elections 1922-1944: Results and Analysis
- Irish Elections 1948-1977: Results and Analysis - Flyer
- Irish Political Studies Reader
- Politics in the Republic of Ireland, 5th Ed.
- Irish Political Studies (from Volume 2 1987 to Volume 12 1997, plus Volume 14 1999.
Copies of the journal cost €10 each, or 3 issues for €25.
Anyone wishing to find out more or to order publications can contact Michael Courtney at courtnmj@tcd.ie.