Four interpretations of electoral choice, each of which gives rise to certain expectations about the type of candidate who will succeed best, are explained. These are clientelism, brokerage, legislative effectiveness and indifference. Multiple regression is used to isolate the effects of various ...
“It's not just about principle,” Moloney explained. “If I turn over my notes, I'll never be able to work again in Northern Ireland. No one would ever trust me again.” It could have also gotten him killed. A judge eventually decided against jailing Moloney. Show moreView chapter...
Slowly, the stickiness of loss has lifted. Last year I noticed that I was finally coming back to myself. I was feeling joy again. In a moment of absolute “what the heck happened to me”, I saw a therapist who explained that it can take one to three years to fully process a loss....
“What we’re seeing in relation to the Irish government arises out of the dreadful atrocities of October 7,” Shatter explained. “The reaction of Sinn Féin and other small left-wing parties in the Irish parliament wasn’t to express sympathy with Israel and criticize Hamas, but it was to...
While this can be explained by the vagaries of our electoral system, the parliamentary arithmetic and the myriad policies promoted by the opposition parties, it is hardly an ideal form of democracy. As this scenario is unlikely to change anytime soon, all we can look forward to with certai...
“He did a lot of background linking-in with the NGOs; he explained what was at stake clearly, and he managed the internal party tensions very well. He kept all of the plates spinning,” said one person involved in the campaign. Following the landslide Yes vote, abortio...
Irish Political StudiesConnaughton, B. 2010. Glorified Gofers, Policy Experts or Good Generalists: A Classification of the Roles of the Irish Ministerial Adviser. Irish Political Studies 25: 347-69.b. "Glorified Gofers, Policy Experts or Good Generalists: A Classification of the Roles of the ...
The GFC explained in two short paragraphs… “…acknowledging insolvency and requiring creditors to share some of the burdens. But a strong lobby of real estate developers, the investors who bought banks’ bonds and politicians with links to the failed developments (and their bankers) prefer that...
This dubious tradition dates back more than 100 years to Sidney Olcott’s The Lad from Old Ireland, as Sean Crosson explained in a recent Journal piece. Over the intervening century, a succession of off-centre US representations of Ireland and the Irish has followed, including The Quiet Man...
twirling his shillelagh like some Zulu warrior. The coastguard explained very sincerely to the old man that he only wanted to ascertain the truth of whether the Irish stick-wielders were skilled in the art of fencing. McCarthy replied, “B’fhearr dhuit ciall a bheith agat”, meaning “Be...