Untitled Page 1 Page 2 While Ireland was once perceived as being characterised by
conservatism, Catholicism and cultural isolation, by the first decades of the twenty-first century …

At the general election of February 2020, Sinn Féin won a plurality of the vote in the
Republic of Ireland for the first time. The party system remained highly fragmented and, with …

The Irish party system has been an outlier in comparative politics. Ireland never had a left-
right divide in parliament, and for decades, the dominant centrist political parties competed …

This research note has two functions. It first sets the scene for this special issue using the
2020 Irish National Election Study (INES), which comprises several discrete data sets. The …

For most of the twentieth century the Irish party system was stable and unchanging, centred
on Fianna Fáil, Europe's most electorally successful political party. That system suddenly …

While the public image of legislative debates is often less than favourable, parliamentary
deliberations can be an important indicator of policy preferences, issue saliency and …