A posting about an event organised by our colleagues at DCU. The Presidents of Dublin City University and National University of Ireland Maynooth, Professor Brian MacCraith and Professor Philip Nolan cordially invite you to a ceremony to celebrate the launch … Continue reading
Last November I was invited to give a keynote address to a Forum on Electoral Research organized by the Australian Electoral Commission. The principal theme of the two-day event was citizen engagement, with most of the papers focused on the … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I organised an event at the Royal Irish Academy that brought together the world’s leading experts on deliberation, some of whom had helped organise or had being members of constitutional conventions in their own countries. The … Continue reading
The Dublin European Institute at the School of Politics and International Relations, UCD and Trinity College Dublin Centre for European Studies would like to invite you to the book launch of LIBERALIZATION CHALLENGES IN HUNGARY: ELITISM, PROGRESSIVISM, AND POPULISM by DR. … Continue reading
Ireland Stat, a pilot Government level performance measurement website, has recently being launched by the the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
Yesterday saw the publication of the government’s long-awaited proposals for local government reform. Putting People First sets out in (over 200 pages of) detail proposals for the most radical overhaul of local government in Ireland in the history of the … Continue reading
Yesterday’s newspapers reported the launch of a paper on the Seanad by a new group (@SeanadReform) campaigning for reform rather than abolition of the second house of the Oireachtas. The government remains committed to holding a referendum on the issue … Continue reading
The 2012 PSAI Annual Conference will be hosted by the University Of Ulster, Magee Campus, Derry, and will take place on 19-21 October 2012 in the City Hotel, Queen’s Quay. The headline theme for this conference will be: Politics, Culture … Continue reading
Posted by David Farrell, September 9 2012 Here is a copy of my opinion piece in last Saturday’s Irish Times. Given that they tend to put their archives behind a firewall, this link may not work for long. So, here … Continue reading
A post by Dr Niamh Hardiman, SPIRe, UCD, July 9, 2012 Irish politics is generally held to be in grave need of reform. The global economic crisis since 2008 showed how poorly prepared we were for any downturn, let alone … Continue reading
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