When Mini-Publics and Maxi-Publics Coincide: Ireland’s National Debate on Abortion
Citation:
Farrell, D.M., Suiter, J., Cunningham, K. & Harris, C. (2009). “When Mini-Publics and Maxi-Publics Coincide: Ireland’s National Debate on Abortion”. In
Representation. Journal of Representative Democracy, Published online. London: Routledge. Retrieved August 16, 2020 from https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2020.1804441
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Type of work: Article (academic)
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mini-publicsAbstract:
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.
