** TONIGHT** Reminder** The Dail reform is moving up the agenda, but is this a real reform or just tinkering? Do you want to help set the agenda on real Dail reform? Claiming our Future is hosting a public discussion The Wrong Referendum? Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 18:00-20:00 Wood Quay Venue Register now: dailreform.eventbrite.ie/ Speakers: Muiris MacCarthaigh, Queens University Belfast Shane Martin, University of Leicester Discussion: What should be the purpose of the Dáil? Does the Dáil have sufficient power? How would you change the Dáil to realise the five Claiming our Future values? For more information and to register: claimingourfuture.ie/events/2013/09/24/the-wrong-referendum/ Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh is Lecturer in Irish Politics at Queen’s University, Belfast. He has long-standing academic research and teaching interests in the origins, work and reform of the Irish parliament and is author of Accountability in Irish Parliamentary Politics (2005) and co-editor of The Houses of the Oireachtas: Parliament in Ireland (2010). He has also conducted a number of commissioned research projects for the Houses of the Oireachtas. He is a member of a number of international academic networks concerned with the study of parliaments. Dr Shane Martin is Reader in Comparative Politics at the University of Leicester. Prior to joining Leicester, he taught at Dublin City University, the University of California, San Diego and the Pennsylvania State University and held a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin. He is an international recognised expert on parliaments and parliamentary behaviour, with a specific focus on the relationship between electoral systems and parliamentary organisation and behaviour. Recent research by him has appeared in Legislative Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, The Journal of Legislative Studies, Political Studies, West European Politics, Irish Political Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, and Politics and Religion. He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies and a member of the Editorial Board of Irish Political Studies (2011) and Legislative Studies Quarterly (2012-15). He was Director of the European Summer School on Parliaments in 2010 and 2013.
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