• The Irish legislative gender quota: The first election 

  Brennan, Mary; Buckley, Fiona (De Gruyter Open, 2017-05-23)

  In 2012 legislative gender quotas were introduced as part of the Fine Gael/Labour coalition government’s political reform agenda. The legislation specifies that payments to political parties ‘shall be reduced by 50 per ...
• Dáil reforms since 2011: Pathway to power for the 'puny' parliament? 

  Lynch, Catherine; O'Malley, Eoin; Reidy, Theresa; Farrell, David M.; Suiter, Jane (De Gruyter Open, 2017-05-23)

  We know that the Dáil is dominated by the government. From 2010 to 2016 there was a clamour for change, which ultimately led to significant reforms of the Oireachtas, and specifically the Dáil. In this article we show that ...
• Reforming local government: Must it always be democracy versus efficiency? 

  Quinlivan, Aodh (De Gruyter Open, 2017-05-23)

  The financial crisis from 2008 has had a profound impact on Irish local government. Councils were faced with a disastrous combination of factors - declining funding from central government, difficulties in collecting ...
• Democratic revolution? Evaluating the political and administrative reform landscape after the economic crisis 

  Reidy, Theresa; Buckley, Fiona (De Gruyter Open, 2017-05-23)

  Upon winning the general election in February 2011, Taoiseach elect Enda Kenny spoke of a ‘democratic revolution’. Within weeks, a programme for government was agreed between Fine Gael and Labour, promising to ‘radically ...
• Exploring Ireland's approach to negotiating the 2012 Fiscal Stability Treaty: a qualitative study 

  Costello, Anthony James (University College Cork, 2016)

  On the 2nd of March 2012 the intergovernmental Fiscal Stability Treaty was signed by 25 European Union (EU) member-states with the exception of the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic. The treaty was part of a broader ...

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