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How Ireland Voted 2007: The Full Story of Ireland’s General ElectionFianna Fáil and Irish party competition

How Ireland Voted 2007: The Full Story of Ireland’s General Election: Fianna Fáil and Irish party... [Whatever issues animate the campaigns of politicians and their parties, or mobilise and engage voters, once an election outcome is known analysts inevitably want to ask whether the election in question was one marked by continuity or by change. Of course, sometimes there is evidence of both and that has certainly been the case of judgements of recent Irish general elections. Writing of the 1997 election, Michael Laver argued it ‘was remarkable more for what didn’t happen than for what did’, but he then went on to conclude that it ushered in a ‘more or less permanent era of coalition government ... which meant a much enhanced role for the Labour party’.1 After the 2002 contest John Coakley suggested that ‘the Irish party system arrived in the twenty-first century with few signs of age’, although he also conceded that there was now ‘substantial support for new political forces’.2] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

How Ireland Voted 2007: The Full Story of Ireland’s General ElectionFianna Fáil and Irish party competition

Editors: Gallagher, Michael; Marsh, Michael
Carty, R. Kenneth
How Ireland Voted 2007: The Full Story of Ireland’s General Election — Dec 4, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
ISBN
978-0-230-20198-9
Pages
218–231
DOI
10.1057/9780230597990_13
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Abstract

[Whatever issues animate the campaigns of politicians and their parties, or mobilise and engage voters, once an election outcome is known analysts inevitably want to ask whether the election in question was one marked by continuity or by change. Of course, sometimes there is evidence of both and that has certainly been the case of judgements of recent Irish general elections. Writing of the 1997 election, Michael Laver argued it ‘was remarkable more for what didn’t happen than for what did’, but he then went on to conclude that it ushered in a ‘more or less permanent era of coalition government ... which meant a much enhanced role for the Labour party’.1 After the 2002 contest John Coakley suggested that ‘the Irish party system arrived in the twenty-first century with few signs of age’, although he also conceded that there was now ‘substantial support for new political forces’.2]

Published: Dec 4, 2015

Keywords: Electoral System; Vote Share; Voter Turnout; Party System; Coalition Government

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