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100	1	0	_aSuiter, Jane _eauthor
700	1	0	_a Farrell, David M. _eauthor
700	1	0	_a Harris, Clodagh _eauthor
700	1	0	_a O’Malley, Eoin _eauthor
245	0	0	_aThe first Irish Constitutional Convention: A case of “high legitimacy”?
260			_c2019.
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520			_aThis paper examines the working of the first Irish Constitutional Convention held in 2013. It was argued that using a deliberative approach to reform the Constitution would be valuable as it would directly involve citizens in decisions of constitutional reform, thereby enhancing diminished democratic legitimacy and potentially re-configuring democratic practice. The Convention led to a referendum to recognize marriage equality, with Ireland becoming the first country to institute such equality by popular vote. This paper examines all facets of the Convention, deploying a framework of input, throughput, and output legitimacy. We find that it is in two of the areas that were initially a strong source of criticism—its composition and remit—that the Convention has been truly innovative in ways that have contributed to its legitimacy across multiple dimensions.
690			_adeliberation
690			_aIreland
690			_acitizen assembly
690			_aconstitutions
690			_alegitimacy
690			_amarriage equality
786	0		_nParticipations | o 23 | 1 | 2019-06-05 | p. 123-146 | 2034-7650
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-participations-2019-1-page-123?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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