Author Archives: Adrian Kavanagh

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About Adrian Kavanagh

Lecturer at the Maynooth University Department of Geography. Email: adrian.p.kavanagh@mu.ie

How would Scottish Independence impact on electoral competition in the rest of the United Kingdom?

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 28th August 2014  A referendum on Scottish Independence is taking place on 18th September 2014. While the pre-contest opinion polls are suggesting that this will not be carried, it is worth remembering the range of Irish cases (2001 … Continue reading →

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CSO Population and Migration Estimates (April 2014): Some Political Perspectives

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 26th August 2014 The Central Statistics Office release its last issue in its annual estimation of population/migration figures within the state on 26th August, with the publication of Population and Migration Estimates April 2014. This latest publication estimates that … Continue reading →

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“When the hurly-burly’s done…”: Constituency-level analyses of the post-Local and European elections opinion polls

Posted on August 16, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 12th June 2014 (with subsequent updates) The local and European elections brought a (probably quite welcome!) respite to the spate of opinion polls that had appeared in the run up to the May 23rd electoral contests, but June … Continue reading →

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Love’s Labour Not Entirely Lost?: Constituency-level analysis of the Sunday Times-Behaviour & Attitudes poll (17th August 2014)

Posted on August 16, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 16th August 2014  The latest in the series of Behaviour & Attitudes polls has brought good news for the Labour Party after a long period of dismal results in previous such opinion polls. The Sunday Times-Behaviour & Attitudes poll of August 16th 2014, … Continue reading →

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Political Reform in Ireland: My Personal Electoral and Political Reform Agenda

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 26th July 2014 Some aspects of the government’s political reform agenda have been achieved over the past three and a half years, including changes to political funding legislation, the implementation of a six-month limit for the holding of … Continue reading →

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Confirmed candidates for the Roscommon-South Leitrim and Dublin South West by-elections

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 16th July 2014 (regularly updated) Following the elections of Luke Ming Flanagan (Midlands-North-West) and Brian Hayes (Dublin) at May’s European Parliament elections, vacancies have arisen in their two Dail constituencies of Roscommon-South Leitrim and Dublin South-West respectively. These are … Continue reading →

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Ministerial and Junior Ministerial appointments by constituency after the July 2014 Reshuffle (11th/15th July 2014)

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, Friday 11th July 2014 – updated Tuesday 15th July 2014 This post will look at ministerial appointments by constituency and by region, in the wake of today’s Cabinet reshuffle, and will consider whether Geography had an influence on these, while also contrasting … Continue reading →

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“All Changed, Changed Utterly? Irish General Election Boundary Amendments and the 2012 Constituency Commission Report”, Irish Political Studies – Volume 29, Issue 2

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

An in-depth review of changes to general election boundaries in the Republic of Ireland, with specific reference to the most recent changes in 2012, as published in the latest issue of the Irish Political Studies journal. Taylor & Francis Online … Continue reading →

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Which parties/groupings control the City and County Councils?

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 23rd June 2014 A month has now passed since the holding of the 2014 Local and European elections and the spoils of victory have now been fought over and divided in most cases (although the first meeting of … Continue reading →

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Papering Over The Cracks? Fine Gael’s performance at the May 23rd elections

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 16th June 2014 Fine Gael got lucky on a number of accounts at the May 23rd elections.

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