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There are more independents in the Irish parliament than the combined total in all other industrial democracies. This book analyses and explains the reasons for the significance of a breed of politician long believed extinct in many national political systems.

Representative government and representation. --- Representative government and representation --- Parliamentary government --- Political representation --- Representation --- Self-government --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- Political science --- Democracy --- Elections --- Republics --- Suffrage --- Ireland. --- Irish Free State --- Airlann --- Airurando --- Éire --- Irish Republic --- Irland --- Irlanda --- Irlande --- Irlanti --- Írország --- Poblacht na hÉireann --- Republic of Ireland --- Dail. --- Downsian fashion. --- European Parliament. --- Independent politicians. --- Irish Free State. --- Irish elections. --- Irish electoral landscape. --- Seanad. --- candidate-centred culture. --- heterogeneity. --- independent voter. --- local government. --- non-party parliamentarians. --- party democracies. --- party system. --- permissive electoral system.