Titlebook: How Ireland Voted 2007: The Full Story of Ireland’s General Election; Michael Gallagher,Michael Marsh Book 2008 Palgrave Macmillan, a divi

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The background to the election,ampaign, unusually long by Irish standards. The misspelling of the title ‘Taoiseach’ was symptomatic of the rather frayed nerves of the government heading into what looked like being an extremely tight general election. The rather bizarre behaviour of the Taoiseach in calling the election in this ma

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The fulfilment of election pledges,This pattern was repeated in relation to a wide range of issues, as both leaders sought to convince the viewers that the pledges made by their party were more attractive and more reliable than those of the other party.

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The earthquake that never happened: analysis of the results, story of the 2007 election outcome is primarily one of the dramatic changes that, in the event, simply did not happen. In chapter 7 Michael Marsh probes more deeply into just why the electorate drew back from the brink of setting the party system onto a different trajectory. In this chapter, we loo