2019 Basil Chubb prize

The 2019 Basil Chubb prize for best PhD thesis at an Irish university in 2018 has been awarded to Dr Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir, (UCC) for her dissertation: Icelandic Security Discourses: A Grounded Theoretical Analysis.

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The impact of immigration on Sinn Féin support in three charts 09/09/2024
Dr. Rory Costello is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics & Public Administration at the University of Limerick and is a member of the Management Board of the National Election and Democracy Study. Most observers believe that the dramatic decline in support for Sinn Féin over the past year, and particularly during the…
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Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Groups Host Conference on Cross-Border Transformations in Constitutional Politics 27/08/2024
Dr Valesca Lima is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Dublin City University’s School of Law and Government. The PSAI and PSA Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Groups held a one-day conference on August 9th, 2024 entitled “Cross-border Transformations: Deliberation and Participation in Constitutional Politics”. Hosted at the Geary Institute at University College Dublin, the…
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Irish Policy Agendas Project workshop 21/06/2024
The Irish Policy Agendas Project held a workshop this week, bringing together researchers using and generating Irish policy agendas data, developing plans for new policy agendas projects, and studying policy agenda-setting in other ways. The workshop was supported by the PSAI’s Public Policy Specialist Group through the PSAI’s Specialist Group Funding scheme, and the NUI…
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The electoral system used to elect Ireland’s MEPs 17/06/2024
As noted here a couple of weeks ago, it’s debateable whether Ireland complies with the requirement in EU law that MEPs are to be elected using a system of proportional representation (PR), be that a list system or PR-STV. At present 25 countries use some kind of list system, while Ireland and Malta employ PR-STV.…
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Ireland-China Relations Conference 12/06/2024
Dr Alexander Dukalskis is an Associate Professor in UCD’s School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe). The PSAI International Relations and Area Studies Specialist Group recently helped support a conference on Ireland-China relations. The event, held on May 23rd, was a collaboration between the UCD Centre for Asia-Pacific Research and the University of Notre Dame’s Clingen…
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