@inbook{bea4cb29b050485e879385bf8eaf898c,
title = "Of trust and mistrust: The politics of repeal",
keywords = "abortion, political trust, women activists, social mobilisation, Repeal the 8th, Ireland, Referendum, citizen assembly, democracy, mistrust",
author = "El{\.z}bieta Dr{\c a}{\.z}kiewicz-Grodzicka and {N{\'i} Mh{\'o}rdha}, M{\'a}ire",
note = "This paper examines the trajectory that paved the way to Citizen Assembly and its role in the Repeal Movement. In the process, the paper focuses on the role of political trust in establishing this novel democratic technology. The paper shows that in order to really understand the way modern democracies work, and the way change happens it is important to understand not only the relationship that citizens have with the state, but also how the relationship between politicians and their constituents is circumscribed and negotiated. In this, we argue, the struggle in Ireland for abortion rights contradicts prevailing narratives about the decline in public trust in political institutions across European societies. Instead, we contend that while notions of trust were central to the successful message of the referendum campaign itself, a key influence on the trajectory of the Repeal movement was actually mistrust on the part of professional politicians vis-{\`a}-vis their constituents.",
year = "2020",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781786997173",
pages = "90--105",
editor = "Kath Browne and Sydney Calkin",
booktitle = "After repeal",
publisher = "Bloomsbury Academic",
}
