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Tue 02 Feb 2010No incentive for politicians to reform status quo
Institutional change is necessary to restore public faith in politics – but it can only happen from the bottom up, writes ELAINE BYRNE
WHY ARE those who seek to make politics better regarded as being anti-politics? Why are practical proposals to reform an antiquated political system deliberately interpreted as contemptuous of Irish politics? In that lazy anti-intellectual paranoia that passes for rational debate these days, reformists are casually labelled as angry cynics with an authoritarian agenda in their back pocket waiting patiently for the fall of Ireland’s democratic structures.
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