How Ireland Voted 2020: The End of an Era

ISBN-13: 9783030664046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 374 str.

Michael Gallagher; Michael Marsh; Theresa Reidy

Recenzje

"How Ireland Voted 2020 garners stellar contributions from the best scholars of Irish electoral politics. In addition to the analysis of leading Irish academics, this edited volume offers a glossary, list of abbreviations, chronology, and set of colour photos to begin the book. This background information is most helpful to those less familiar with the parties and personalities associated with contemporary Irish politics." (Timothy White, Estudios Irlandeses, Vol. 17, 2022)

"The book contains lots of detail on many different angles." (Mick Fealty, sluggerotoole.com, July 23, 2021)

Spis treści

1. The Road to the Election - Gary Murphy

2. Election pledge fulfilment under minority government - Rory Costello, Alice Sheridan, and Duncan Casey

3. Too many, too few: candidate selection in 2020 - Theresa Reidy

4. Campaign Strategies: the inside story of how the election was fought - Pat Leahy

5. Brexit and the election: the issue that wasn't - Mary C. Murphy

6. Media and the election: social and traditional media narratives in the campaign - Kirsty Park and Jane Suiter

7. On the campaign trail - Mairéad Farrell, James O' Connor, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Roderic O'Gorman, Marie Sherlock, and Jennifer Whitmore

8. The results analyses: the definitive end of the traditional party system? - Michael Gallagher

9. Geographical factors in constituency voting patterns - Adrian Kavanagh, William Durkan, and Caoilfhionn D'Arcy

10. Voting behaviour: the Sinn Féin election - Kevin Cunningham and Michael Marsh

11. The evolving nature of the Irish policy space - Lisa Keenan and Gail McElroy

12. The Seanad election: voting in unprecedented times - Claire McGing

13. The slow formation of government - Eoin O'Malley

14. The election in context - John Coakley

O autorze

Michael Gallagher is Professor of Comparative Politics in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Michael Marsh is Emeritus Professor of Political Science in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Theresa Reidy is Senior Lecturer in Government at University College Cork, Ireland.

Blurb

This book is the 9th volume in the established How Ireland Voted series and provides the definitive story of Ireland’s mould-breaking 2020 election. For the first time ever, Sinn Féin won the most votes, the previously dominant parties shrank to a fraction of their former strengths, and the government to emerge was a coalition between previously irreconcilable enemies. For these reasons, the election marks the end of an era in Irish politics. This book analyses the course of the campaign, the parties’ gains and losses, and the impact of issues, especially the role of Brexit. Voting behaviour is explored in depth, with examination of the role of issues and discussion of the role of social cleavages such as class, age and education. The process by which the government was put together over a period of nearly five months is traced through in-depth interviews with participants. And six candidates who contested Election 2020 give first-hand reports of their campaigns.

Michael Gallagher is Professor of Comparative Politics in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Michael Marsh is Emeritus Professor of Political Science in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Theresa Reidy is Senior Lecturer in Government at University College Cork, Ireland.