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PSAI Annual Conference 9-10th October-programme now available. 25/09/2020
The PSAI like all organisations has had to adapt to the COVID19 pandemic, which means a physical big meet up conference is just not possible this year. The GOOD news is that has not deterred this year’s innovative organising committee [Shane Reynolds, UL; Lisa Keenan, TCD; Johan A. Elkink, UCD] from putting together an impressive…
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Showcase your graduate research! 26/08/2020
This could be you! The PSAI is keen to support graduate students. Picture shows Dr. Peter Stone (TCD, and President of the PSAI) awarding the 2019 Basil Chubb Prize for the Best PhD in Political Science to Dr Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir (Faculty of Political Science at the University of Iceland, and a graduate of the UCC…
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140 Days: With government formation taking longer, do we need a guide? 06/07/2020
It took an unprecedented 140 Day for the Irish government to be formed. Does this suggest we need some mechanism to speed up the process?* While it is always theoretically possible to form a majority coalition, the level of fragmentation in the Irish party system in 2020 was at a record high. The effective number…
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Where should we “Park” the Taoiseach? 29/05/2020
Stewards Lodge on the grounds of the Farmleigh Estate, the Phoenix Park, Dublin.Source: Wikipedia/ By Mary C. Murphy, University College Cork * Unlike many other countries around the world, the Irish state does not provide an official residence for its Head of Government. Recently however, it was revealed that current Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and his…
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How to resolve the ongoing government formation impasse-how about a Matrix Vote on it? 07/04/2020
(above an example of possible Matrix ballot paper used to determine cabinet formation) By Peter Emerson of the the De Borda institute Because of Covid-19 we need not only to “totally re-imagine economics,” (to quote the Irish Times -Sat 28th), but also to “totally re-imagine politics.” In a recent Irish Times edition, Prof. Sam McClonkey…
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