• 'The elephant in the room' no more: Europe as a structuring line of political cleavage in the 2017 presidential election 

  Schön-Quinlivan, Emmanuelle (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017-08-01)

  It is traditionally argued that the topic of European integration is rather absent or under-discussed in French political debate. In this context, it came as a surprise that the 2017 French presidential election turned ...
• The People's Republic of China and European Union security cooperation in Africa: Sino-EU security cooperation in Mali and the Gulf of Aden 

  Duggan, Niall (Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya, 2017-04)

  The United States' pivot toward Asia has fuelled a new round of debates about the role of key Asian actors such as the People's Republic of China (China) and traditional actors such as the European Union (EU) in global ...
• 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 ...

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