Are Our Institutions Fit for Purpose? Political Reform in the Republic of Ireland.

This year marks the ninetieth anniversary of the first Dáil session at the Mansion House. In keeping with this spirit of regeneration, this conference will provide a forum for Ireland's leading political scientists, political commentators, and interested practitioners to come together to discuss their views on political reform. The conference, hosted by the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) will seek to provide an accessible analysis of our current political institutions, as well as laying out options for future reform, based on extensive academic research.

The conference will be structured into three sessions and will close with a round table discussion involving participants from all three sessions as well as members of the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution. Each session will include expert speakers who have published academic research on the institution being discussed, and respondents, who have intimate knowledge of that institution from the worlds of politics and journalism.

For further information on the contributions by the presenters, the fourth edition of the Politics in the Republic of Ireland will be published in 20/8/2009.