Communications

Biographical Details:

Dr. Jane Suiter is a political scientist in the School of Communications at Dublin City University. Her research is mainly on Irish politics and particularly political communications, political campaigns and referendum voting. She also does work on political reform and is interested in deliberative democracy. Jane is as a member of the academic team of We the Citizens, an Atlantic Philanthropies-sponsored pilot citizens' assembly, dailwatch,ie and women on air. She also works on pork barrel politics and partisan spending. Jane is a frequent contributor to broadcast and print media and is a former journalist having worked as Economics Editor at The Irish Times and for other papers such as The Sunday Times and Sunday Independent.

Research Interests:

My research interests centre around political communication and in particular political reform participative democracy and citizen assemblies. I am also interested in the interaction between economics and political science and in particular pork barrel politics and economic voting.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Farrell D, O'Malley E Suiter J. 2013. Deliberative Democracy in Action Irish-Style: The 2011 We The Citizens Pilot Citizens¿ Assembly. Irish Political Studies,
• Suiter Jane. 2008. The Dail Election 2007. Irish Political Studies, 23,, pp99-110.

Selected Chapters

• Farrell D, O'Malley E. Suiter J. 2012. The 2011 We the Citizens Pilot Citizens¿ Assembly'. , pp16-24.
• Suiter J. 2012. Ireland in The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics.
• Suiter J. 2012. Ireland¿s Journey to the third way: the hi-social model?. , pp165-177.
• Farrell David, Suiter Jane;. 2011. Party Policy and the Election.
• Suiter Jane, Farrell David. 2011. The Parties' Manifestos. , pp29-47.

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

• Dr Jane Suiter. 2012. Lack of debate on referendum reveals need for change. The Irish Times,
• Dr Jane Suiter. 2012. State finally takes tentative steps to lift shroud of secrecy that held us back. The Irish Times,
• Marsh, M., Suiter, J., and Reidy, T. 2012. Report on Reasons Behind Voter Behaviour in the Oireachtas Inquiry Referendum 2011 

. pp1-47.
• Dr Jane Suiter. 2011. Clear decision making can tackle political corruption. The Irish Times,
• Dr Jane Suiter. 2010. Political patronage still controls the purse strings. The Irish Times,

• Suiter J, O'Malley E, Farrell D, Differing Capacities, Differing Reactions:Evidence from an exercise in deliberative democracy, In: David Farrell, UCD ed.Deliberation in practice: the use of mini-publics in contemporary democracies, 02-NOV-12 - , Royal Irish Academy
• Suiter J. Farrell D, O'Malley E, Differing Capacities: Views of members of a citizen assembly, Politics, Culture and Society in a Changing Ireland, 19-OCT-12 - 21-OCT-12, University Of Ulster, Magee Campus, Londonderry
• Suiter J, Reidy T, It¿s the campaign learning stupid. An examination of a volatile Irish referendum , Politics, Culture and Society in a Changing Ireland, 19-OCT-12 - 21-OCT-12, University Of Ulster, Magee Campus, Londonderry
• Suiter J, Farrell D, O'Malley E, Differing Reactions; ResDiffering reactions and differing capacities: Evidence from an exercise in Deliberative Democracy, In: Oxford ed.The 2012 Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) conference , 07-SEP-12 - 09-SEP-12, Oxford
• Calfano B, Oldmixon E, Suiter J, Clergy as Political Elites , In: APSA ed.APSA Annual Meeting 2011, 01-SEP-11 - 04-SEP-11, Seattke, WA
• Suiter J, Reidy T, Economic Voting In Ireland Revisited, Boom and Bust, In: ECPR ed.6th ECPR General Conference, 25-AUG-11 - 27-AUG-11, University of Iceland