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Book Details: Price: €11.95 Binding: pb Pages: 240 Size: 196x130mm ISBN-10 1-84717-031-5 ISBN-13 978-1-84717-031-6

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With a constituency-by-constituency guide to the issues, personalities and local intrigue of the 2007 general election.

Contents:

• Introduction, Tom McGuire
• Reminiscences of an on-the-run Psephologist, John Bowman
• Voting early and often, Tom McGurk
• E-voting: dead or alive? Sean O’Rourke
• It’s Showtime, Charlie Bird
• Getting voting right, Cathal MacCoille
• Not so PC, Pat Kenny
• The Albert Factor, Fergal Keane
• Beware of the Pundits, Derek David
• Campaigns and Number-crunchers, Rodney Rice
• Polls, parties and papers, Gerald Barry
• Passing time in the Seanad, David Davin-Power
• 'What's this scam all about?' (or how Mountjoy prison is preparing for the prisoners' first ballot), Áine Lawlor
• The 29th Dáil, Brian Dowling
• Introduction to the Constituencies, Rachael English
• Consituency maps
• The Constituencies, A-Z, Rachael English and Nick Coffey

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  Praise for The Election Book
  
  'highly entertaining and informative articles . . . features opinions and anecdotes of some of the country's top political commentators' Sligo Champion
  
  'It contains the perceived wisdom of a group of people and at times it is very witty.' Longford News
  
  'Anyone with the remotest interest in the bloodsport we call Irish politics simply has to pick up a new publication that is guaranteed to enthral them from start to finish. The Election Book began life as a sort of written accompaniment to the RTE Radio 1 series, the Constituency, but it has evolved into quite possibly the best insight into the real drama - out front and behind the scenes - of an Irish General Election. With contributions from RTE's baker's dozen of heavyweights - The Election Book, as they say, does exactly what it says on the tin. . . . quite simply if you have the remotest interest in Irish politics, you'll love this book'' Westmeath Independent
  
  'The book contains a collection of opinions and anecdotes of some of the country's most eminent political commentators, reflecting on the election process over the last forty years' Donegal News Derry People
  
  'an interesting and varied book . . .worth buying' Sligo Weekender