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Reflections on women’s representation in Irish electoral politics – new research and fruitful avenues of inquiry 07/03/2023
This blog posts marks a symposium recently published in Irish Political Studies: ‘Gender and Political Change in the Republic of Ireland: Sites of Progress and Contestation’, edited by Dr. Lisa Keenan and Dr. Claire McGing. Lisa Keenan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). She researches on…
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Presentation of The Punter’s Guide to Democracy at Áras an Uachtaráin 20/02/2023
On 8 February, Peter Emerson (the de Borda Institute, www.deborda.org) made a presentation of The Punters’ Guide to Democracy (2022, Springer, Heidelberg) to President Michael D. Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin. He was joined by Prof. Peter Stone, Cllr. Dr. Vanessa Liston, and Rosalind Skillen (Master’s student, UCD). This is Peter Emerson’s argument for adopting the Modified Borda Count: Binary voting in decision-making…
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The Consequences of Brazilian Social Movements in Historical Perspective 13/11/2022
Valesca Lima, Rafaela Pannain and Gabriela Martins were delighted to launch their book The Consequences of Brazilian Social Movements in Historical Perspective, recently published by Routledge. The book was launched at the 46th Conference of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences (ANPOCS) at the University of Campinas in São Paulo…
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2022 PSAI Postgraduate Conference 31/10/2022
The Conference programme for the PSAI Postgraduate Conference held at Queen’s University Belfast this December is now live! Sir David Sterling KCB, former Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, will be this year’s keynote speaker. The programme can be viewed here. The conference is open to all to attend, but registration to attend the conference…
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Ukraine: Are we also at fault? 18/09/2022
By Peter Emerson Mariupol is yet another city which humankind has first created… and then destroyed, flattened, like Guernica and Warsaw. And Russia now does to others, what it too has suffered, as in Leningrad and by its own hand, in Grozny. Mariupol is not a Russian word; if it were Russian or Slavic, it…
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