Titlebook: How Ireland Voted 2002; Michael Gallagher (Associate Professor),Michael Ma Book 2003 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publisher

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The Media and the Campaign,television let PR professionals feed them their headlines, facilitated a personality driven campaign largely void of issues, and that ‘journalists, who should be setting the agenda on behalf of the people, ended up running around helplessly after the politicians, falling for their cheap publicity stunts and failing to ask the hard questions’.

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Candidate Selection: More Democratic or More Centrally Controlled?,duct of selections for the 2002 election. We will then take a closer look at the three main participants — candidates, selectors and central party committees — before turning to a discussion of the outcomes followed by a section exploring the general issues raised by the candidate selection process in 2002.

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978-0-333-96835-2Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003

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Voter Turnout in 2002 and Beyond,The 2002 elections marked yet another fall in turnout, bringing voter participation to one of its lowest levels ever. The persistence and pervasiveness of the contemporary turnout problem is illustrated in Figure 7.1, which presents data on turnout in general, local and presidential elections in Ireland since 1969.

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Stability and Turmoil: Analysis of the Results,main parties; at the following election the latter had fought back. Thus in 1987 the Progressive Democrats (PDs) had won more than 12 per cent of the votes, mainly at Fine Gael’s expense, only to slip back in 1989. In 1992 Labour had made a large advance, but it in turn had to yield ground in 1997.