When Mini-Publics and Maxi-Publics Coincide: Ireland’s National Debate on Abortion

David M. Farrell; Jane Suiter; Kevin Cunningham; Clodagh Harris

doi:10.1080/00344893.2020.1804441

When Mini-Publics and Maxi-Publics Coincide: Ireland’s National Debate on Abortion

David M. Farrell, Jane Suiter, Kevin Cunningham, Clodagh Harris

Technological University Dublin

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	55-73
Number of pages	19
Journal	Representation
Volume	59
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2020.1804441
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Citizens’ Assembly
abortion
deliberative mini-public

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