Party politics in Ireland has been characterised as politics without a social base. This paper calculates political … concentration indices for party support in Ireland showing how support for a particular party is concentrated according to …

We present a unified structural equation modelling framework for the regression-based decomposition of rank … provides an argument for using the bivariate multiple regression model for two-dimensional decomposition. Within the structural … equation modelling framework, the two-dimensional decomposition integrates the feedback mechanism between health and …