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Since the elections of 1987, the Political Studies Association of Ireland has published books on each Irish general election. This latest volume covers the 1997 elections and is the first study to provide an in-depth analysis of both the campaign and the election results.
List of contents
Part 1 The Campaign, 1 Political Competition, 1992-1997, 2 Organisational Preparation and Political Marketing, 3 Candidate Selection, 4 Party Manifestos, 5 On the Campaign Trail, Part 2 Results, Analysis, Aftermath, 6 The Results Analysed, 7 The Behaviour of the Irish Voter, 8 The Sodal and Political Characteristics of the Twenty-eighth Dail, 9 The Senate Elections, 10 The Making of the Eighth President, 11 Government Formation: A Tale of Two Coalitions, 12 The Irish Party System Approaching the Millennium
About the author
Michael Marsh is Head of the Department of Political Science and a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of a wide variety of articles on parties and electoral behaviour which have appeared in books and journals published in Europe and the United States. His co-edited books include Candidate Selection in Comparative Perspective: The Secret Garden of Politics (London, 1988) and Modern Irish Democracy (Dublin, 1993). Paul Mitchell is a lecturer in politics at the Queen's University, Belfast. He has published a range of articles and chapters on coalition politics and party competition as well as conflict regulation in ethnically divided societies. A book he co-edited (with Rick Wilford), Politics in Northern Ireland, was recently published by Westview Press.
Summary
Since the elections of 1987, the Political Studies Association of Ireland has published books on each Irish general election. This latest volume covers the 1997 elections and is the first study to provide an in-depth analysis of both the campaign and the election results.
