Title:Is Governing Becoming More Contentious?
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:For a variety of reasons, political parties in European democracies are now more likely to be judged on how they govern rather than on the substantive policy programmes that they advocate. This is likely to have a number ...
Title:The Election in Context
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:In present circumstances...democracy in Ireland is also becoming a democracy without choices, one in which elections might continue to be full of drama, sound and fury, but in which the outcomes signify little.