How Ireland Voted 2011

JOHN BOWMAN Historian and Broadcaster FIONA BUCKLEY Lecturer, Department of Government, University College Cork, Ireland JOHN COAKLEY Professor of Politics, University College Dublin, Ireland KEVIN CUNNINGHAM Research Student, Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland DAVID FARRELL Professor of Politics, University College Dublin, Ireland MICHAEL COURTNEY IRCHSS Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland PAT LEAHY Political Editor, Sunday Business Post PETER MAIR Professor of Comparative Politics and Dean of Graduate Studies at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy CLAIRE MCGING Doctoral Student, Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth, Ireland GARY MURPHY Senior Lecturer in Government, Dublin City University, Ireland EOIN O'MALLEY Lecturer, Dublin City University, Ireland THERESA REIDY College Lecturer, University College Cork, Ireland RICHARD SINNOTT former Professor of Politics, University College Dublin, Ireland MARIA LAURA SUDULICH Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands JANE SUITER Lecturer in Government, University College Cork, Ireland MATT WALL Ph.D. Candidate, University of Dublin, Ireland

The Background to the Election, G. Murphy The Parties' Manifestos, D. Farrell and J. Suiter Candidate Selection, T. Reidy Campaign Strategies and Political Marketing, P. Leahy Internet Explorers: the Online Campaign , M. Wall and M. L. Sudulich On the Campaign Trail, Seán Kyne, Ciara Conway, Conor Lenihan, Mary Lou McDonald, Richard Boyd Barrett, Paul Gogarty and Averil Power Ireland's Earthquake Election: Analysis of the Results, M.Gallagher A Positive Choice, or Anyone but Fianna Fáil, M. Marsh & K. Cunningham Preference Voting under PR-STV 1948–2011, R. Sinnott and J. McBride Women and the Election, F. Buckley and C. McGing The Final Seanad Election?, J. Coakley Government Formation in 2011, E. O'Malley The Election in Context, P. Mair Appendices – M. Courtney Index