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Tue 10 Oct 2009Irish politics big on perks, but what of values?
How can we accept Ceann Comhairle’s moral authority when he defends behaviour only on legal grounds?
‘POLITICAL CULTURE is the set of values within which a system operates,” read my first lecture slide to my first Irish politics class last week. Over the next year, I will be teaching 100 or so Trinity College Dublin students about Irish political parties, the electoral system, the role of the Dáil, policy-making and so forth. But right now I teach them about Irish political culture.
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