Brian M. Lucey

Tag: elections

  • Cognitive biases and Election 2016

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    The electoral dust has finally settled, and from the wreckage of the coalition we can expect no further survivors. It was a case study in how to lose an election, a mixture of arrogance and tin-eared disconnect combined with a lurking bruised populace (or “whingers” as the Taoiseach would have us known) unwilling to believe…

  • Taxes – You are Here (and its not where you think)

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    So the general elauction is in full swing. And the theme of GE2016 is “Irish taxpayers are uniquely, punitively, outrageously taxed, and thats causing all our trouble:. Pretty much every party, bar the courageous (in a Sir Humphrey Appleby way) Social Democrats are pledging to cut, slash, reduce…. Meanwhile, away from the fevered fantasies of…

  • What might radical politics look like in an Irish context?

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    So Renua has been born, a new Irish political party. New ideas and new blood are always good ideas in democracy, and even if there is not a whole pile of it evident so far the principle should be applauded.Their website and documents are full of rhetoric on a new kind of politics and a…

  • Im thinking of voting to retain the Seanad

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    Its strange to find oneself on the same side of a political argument as Fianna Fail. That’s now where I find myself with regard to the referendum to abolish the Seanad. As an exercise in sheer political cynicism this referendum is hard to beat. Conceived by all accounts in a rush of political blood to…