Document Type
Article
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
Journalism, 5.6 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Abstract
Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly (CA) of 2016–18 was tasked with making recommendations on abortion. This paper shows that from the outset its members were in large part in favour of the liberalisation of abortion (though a fair proportion were undecided), that over the course of its deliberations the CA as a whole moved in a more liberal direction on the issue, but that its position was largely reflected in the subsequent referendum vote by the population as a whole.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2020.1804441
Recommended Citation
David M. Farrell, Jane Suiter, Kevin Cunningham & Clodagh Harris (2020) When Mini-Publics and Maxi-Publics Coincide: Ireland’s National Debate on Abortion, Representation, DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2020.1804441
Funder
Irish Research Council
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Publication Details
Journal of Representative Democracy