Product Description
Your essential guide to the inside workings of politics, political procedures and elections in Ireland, from Ireland's leading commentators. Let RTE's political experts take you through the roles of: the tallymen, the campaign trail, the spin doctors, financing the elections, passing time in seanad, the leaders, the long counts and the political parties (big and small) and the Independents.With a constituency-by-constituency guide to the issues, personalities and local intrigue of the 2007 general election.
Contents:
Introduction, Tom McGuire
Reminiscences of an on-the-run Psephologist, John Bowman
Voting early and often, Tom McGurk
E-voting: dead or alive? Sean O'Rourke
It's Showtime, Charlie Bird
Getting voting right, Cathal MacCoille
Not so PC, Pat Kenny
The Albert Factor, Fergal Keane
Beware of the Pundits, Derek David
Campaigns and Number-crunchers, Rodney Rice
Polls, parties and papers, Gerald Barry
Passing time in the Seanad, David Davin-Power
'What's this scam all about?' (or how Mountjoy prison is preparing for the prisoners' first ballot), Aine Lawlor
The 29th Dail, Brian Dowling
Introduction to the Constituencies, Rachael English
Consituency maps
The Constituencies, A-Z, Rachael English and Nick Coffey
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