When mini-publics and maxi-publics coincide: Ireland's national debate on abortion
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2020-08-06
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Farrell, David M.
Suiter, Jane
Cunningham, Kevin
Harris, Clodagh
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Taylor & Francis Group
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Ireland's Citizens' Assembly (CA) of 2016-18 was tasked with making recommendations on abortion. This paper shows that from the outset its members were in large part in favour of the liberalisation of abortion (though a fair proportion were undecided), that over the course of its deliberations the CA as a whole moved in a more liberal direction on the issue, but that its position was largely reflected in the subsequent referendum vote by the population as a whole.
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Abortion , Deliberative mini-public , Citizens' Assembly
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Farrell, D. M., Suiter, J., Cunningham, K. and Harris, C. (2020) 'When mini-publics and maxi-publics coincide: Ireland's national debate on abortion', Representation. doi: 10.1080/00344893.2020.1804441
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© 2020, McDougall Trust, London. Published by Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group. All rights reserved. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an item published by Taylor & Francis in Representation on 6 August 2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2020.1804441