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Parties, Polls and Predictions: Who will win the Irish General Election?
11th February 2016 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free
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The forthcoming Irish General Election is shaping up to be one of the most contested in living memory, with a greater number of parties and policies competing for public attention and votes, and presenting multiple coalition options. This free open symposium in QUB brings together some of Ireland’s most prominent political scientists to discuss their predictions for the election and the likely shape of the next government. They include:
- Prof Gary Murphy (School of Law and Government, DCU) General Election 2016: Parties, polls and coalition options
- Dr Liam Weeks (Department of Government, UCC): Kingmakers? The emergence of independents and small parties
- Dr Claire McGing (Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth): ‘Changing the rules of the game? The implementation of gender quota legislation for the 2016 Dáil election‘
The event is organised and will be chaired by Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh (School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, QUB) in association with QPol – the public policy engagement initiative at Queen’s. For further details about the event please contact Dr MacCarthaigh at M.MacCarthaigh@qub.ac.uk and for information on QPol, please contact Kevin Fearon at k.fearon@qub.ac.uk
- When
- Where
- Lanyon Building/01/052, Queen’s University Belfast