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Reflections on women’s representation in Irish electoral politics – new research and fruitful avenues of inquiry politicalreform.ie/2023/03/0…

Reflections on women’s representation in Irish electoral politics – new research and fruitful...

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 Kee…

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Presentation of The Punter’s Guide to Democracy at Áras an Uachtaráin politicalreform.ie/2023/02/2…

Presentation of The Punter’s Guide to Democracy at Áras an Uachtaráin

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 Á…

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The Consequences of Brazilian Social Movements in Historical Perspective politicalreform.ie/2022/11/1…

The Consequences of Brazilian Social Movements in Historical Perspective

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…

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2022 PSAI Postgraduate Conference politicalreform.ie/2022/10/3…

2022 PSAI Postgraduate Conference

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…

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Ukraine: Are we also at fault? politicalreform.ie/2022/09/1…

Ukraine: Are we also at fault?

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, a…

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Towards a critical constitutional juncture for Northern Ireland? politicalreform.ie/2022/08/0…

Towards a critical constitutional juncture for Northern Ireland?

By Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed Having completed its journey through the House of Commons, the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol Bill now proceeds to the House of Lords, where it is l…

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Call for a co-editor position in Irish Political Studies politicalreform.ie/2022/05/1…

Call for a co-editor position in Irish Political Studies

Irish Political Studies is seeking expressions of interest in a co-editor position, tenable for three years from 1 January 2023. A specialist background in the politics of Northern Ireland is requi…

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PSAI annual conference 2022: Call for papers politicalreform.ie/2022/03/1…

PSAI annual conference 2022: Call for papers

The call for papers for the 40th PSAI annual conference are now open. The conference will be held between the 14th and 16th October 2022 in the College Street Campus of Waterford IT. …

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PSAI statement on UCD leadership’s position on academic freedom politicalreform.ie/2022/03/0…

PSAI statement on UCD leadership’s position on academic freedom

The PSAI was concerned to hear recent reports that the leadership of University College Dublin (UCD) used a staff-wide email to undermine criticisms of the university’s relationship to the Ch…

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And now, the year of the tiger politicalreform.ie/2022/02/0…

And now, the year of the tiger

By Peter Emeson (The de Borda Institute) In 2008, aged 65, I started to learn Chinese.  Five years later, on my first lecture tour in China, I addressed a conference in Xuzhou, and one th…

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Honouring Richard Sinnott politicalreform.ie/2022/01/1…

Honouring Richard Sinnott

By David Farrell Richard Sinnott30th June 1947 – 3rd January 2022 Richard Sinnott passed away on 3rd January 2022 after a long illness. An emeritus professor at the School of Politics and Int…

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Pluralism is possible politicalreform.ie/2021/08/3…

Pluralism is possible

By Peter Emerson (The de Borda Institute) An Irish webinar in Germany: Parliament, not selecting, but electing a coalition Ireland’s contributions to the development of democracy have not always be…

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Build forward public: The case for a post pandemic housing imaginary politicalreform.ie/2021/04/2…

Build forward public: The case for a post pandemic housing imaginary

By Mary P Murphy (Maynooth University) Expectations of paradigmatic change often overestimate the degree to which crises will result in change. The reality seems more consistent with Klein’s Shock …

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How Ireland’s response to the pandemic is impacted by austerity era reductions politicalreform.ie/2021/03/3…

How Ireland’s response to the pandemic is impacted by austerity era reductions

By Mary P Murphy (Maynooth University) and John Hogan (Technological University Dublin) The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic followed a decade after the 2008 financial crisis and the related €85 billion Euro…

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Irish feminists need to mobilise for a post-pandemic future built on an ethic of public care politicalreform.ie/2021/03/1…

Irish feminists need to mobilise for a post-pandemic future built on an ethic of public care

By Pauline Cullen and Mary Murphy, Maynooth University Women’s voices in Ireland have not been heard during the pandemic. Covid Women’s Voices, a diverse range of female workers observe daily the g…

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Bad questions or sour grapes? politicalreform.ie/2021/02/2…

Bad questions or sour grapes?

Today’s Irish Times poll created a small social media storm as some took delight in the apparent public shift in positions on the restrictions in Covid, and others, particularly supporters of…

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PSAI Teaching and Learning Group webinar: “Teaching politics during the pandemic: experiences, opportunities and challenges” Friday 29th January 10am-12pm politicalreform.ie/2021/01/1…

PSAI Teaching and Learning Group webinar: “Teaching politics during the pandemic: experiences,...

As many of us prepare to enter a third semester of teaching online we are well placed to reflect on and learn from our different experiences, first pivoting to online in March 2020 and from Septemb…

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Zoom event Thursday Dec. 17th: Lecture- “The European Union, Security and Defence: Logic of Integration, Logic of Sovereignty”, UCC-Defence Forces Lecture Series politicalreform.ie/2020/12/1…

Zoom event Thursday Dec. 17th: Lecture- “The European Union, Security and Defence: Logic of...

The next lecture in the UCC-Defence Forces Lecture Series will be on ‘The European Union, Security and Defence: Logic of Integration, Logic of Sovereignty’, by Dr. Andrew Cottey, Department of Gove…

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Book Launch Alert! politicalreform.ie/2020/11/2…

Book Launch Alert!

Democratic Decision-making Consensus Voting for Civic Society and Parliaments Peter Emerson of the de Borda Institute (Belfast) will be launching his new book on Democratic Decision Making this Mon…

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Interview with Dr.Marisa McGlinchey, winner of the 2020 Brian Farrell PSAI “Best Book” Prize for 2020. politicalreform.ie/2020/11/0…

Interview with Dr.Marisa McGlinchey, winner of the 2020 Brian Farrell PSAI “Best Book” Prize for...

Dr. Marisa McGlinchey, is the author of Unfinished Business: The ‘politics’ of ‘dissident’ Irish Republicanism. Manchester: MUP. (2019) ISBN 978 0 7190 9698 3. She is based at the Centre for Trust,…

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