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Public Opinion with Respect to MPs’ Outside Interests: Insights from the British Election Study (2017)
Report
van der Eijk, C., & Bon, E. V. (2017). Public Opinion with Respect to MPs’ Outside Interests: Insights from the British Election Study. Nottingham: Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL)

How generational replacement undermined the electoral resilience of Fianna Fáil (2017)
Book Chapter
van der Eijk, C., & Elkink, J. A. (2017). How generational replacement undermined the electoral resilience of Fianna Fáil. In M. Marsh, D. Farrell, & G. McElroy (Eds.), A conservative revolution?: electoral change in 21st century Ireland. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198744030.001.0001

This chapter focuses on party switching. The civil-war cleavage that differentiated the two main Irish parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, has been gradually diminishing in importance in recent decades. This trend reached a crescendo in 2011, when th... Read More about How generational replacement undermined the electoral resilience of Fianna Fáil.