The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1984
Recent Submissions
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The influence of turnout on the results of the referendum to amend the constitution to include a clause on the rights of the unborn - reply
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1984)O'Donnell and Brannick (ODB ) believe that it is invalid to attempt to assign a preference to those who did not vote in the Referendum. They claim that those who abstain in a Referendum are expressing a strongly felt ... -
The influence of turnout on the results of the referendum to amend the constitution to include a clause on the rights of the unborn - a review of Walsh findings
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1984)In a recent article Walsh analysed the effect of the low level of turnout on the results of the September 1983 Referendum and stated that `the most important general conclusion from the study is that the level of support ... -
Government intervention and the cost of capital to Irish manufacturing-industry
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1984)This paper derives some general expressions for the debt cost of capital to the Irish manufacturing sector, incorporating the interaction between fiscal and financial policies. A range of estimates of the actual cost (per ... -
The geographical pattern of Irish foreign-trade - test of a gravity model
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1984)This article assesses the extent to which economic approaches to the geographical pattern of foreign trade explain the pattern of Irish merchandise imports and exports. The approach adopted is that of a `gravity? model of ... -
Chance in preferential voting systems - an unacceptable element in Irish electoral law
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1984)The single transferable vote system of proportional representation as operated in elections to Dail Eireann is one of the most sophisticated electoral systems, maximising the capacity of the voter to determine the outcome ...