• The Irish Sudden Infant Death Association: what type of interest group is it, and how did it contribute to the establishment of the National Sudden Infant Death Register? 

  Mernagh, Andrew (University College Cork, 2019-11-06)

  On November 27th 1975, Eimear Berry discovered her fourteen-week old son Brendan dead in his cot, the death was silent, sudden unpredictable and of unknown cause – classic Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). In search ...
• (Gender) balancing the books: how did Irish political parties respond to the first 'gender quota' election in 2016? 

  Mariani, Mack; Buckley, Fiona; McGing, Claire; Wright, Austin (Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-11-06)

  This study examines how Ireland's political parties responded to the implementation of legislative gender quotas for the first time at the 2016 Dáil election. Using a dataset that includes biographical and electoral ...
• Abortion referendums in Ireland 

  Reidy, Theresa (Springer International Publishing, 2019-10-23)

  Ireland was a conservative outpost on the European periphery for much of the twentieth century. From independence in 1922, the state pursued social policies heavily influenced by religious values, and indeed the 1937 ...
• Campaigning by human branding: Associating with American Presidents 

  Collins, Neil (2020-09-08)

  Human branding has become an essential issue in political marketing. It is exemplified in the election of American Presidents. This paper examines the American experience to suggest a typology of human branding that may ...
• When mini-publics and maxi-publics coincide: Ireland's national debate on abortion 

  Farrell, David M.; Suiter, Jane; Cunningham, Kevin; Harris, Clodagh (Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-08-06)

  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 ...

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