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

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What Decided the Election?, incumbent government for the first time in more than 30 years? What accounts for the reversal that drove Fine Gael back to a level of support not seen by the party since 1948? And why did those voters itching for change shun Labour in favour of the ‘new opposition’ — the Greens, Sinn Féin and the independents?

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Candidate Selection: More Democratic or More Centrally Controlled?, — came from the six main parties while the other 138 were either independents or representatives of minor parties. The candidate selection process offers a rare glimpse of the internal workings of political parties, of internal rivalries and of the balance of power between party centres and constit

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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.

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The Media and the Campaign,’.. He complained that this election campaign, driven by ‘Fianna Fáil’s phenomenal media machinery … was run as a piece of entertainment’, that the press relied heavily as never before on national and constituency polls, at least some of which were ‘misleading and unscientific’, that both press and

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The Subterranean Election of the Seanad,nean’.. The nomination process is obscure, the electorate is small, and the body that emerges rarely captures the news agenda. Nevertheless, Seanad elections are sometimes regarded as the most hard-fought Irish elections of all. They are in every sense a professional politicians’ election, with most

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,Government Formation in 2002: ‘You Can Have Any Kind of Government As Long As It’s Fianna Fáil’, former hegemonic position in Irish politics. Well, almost. A virtual avalanche of opinion polls conducted during the three-week election campaign strongly contributed to the belief that Ahern would indeed embrace his destiny (whether he truly sought it or not) as the first Fianna Fáil leader in 25