David M. Farrell is Head of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. He specialises in the studies of representation, elections, and parties, and recent publications include Reimagining Democracy: Lessons in Deliberative Democracy from the Irish Front Line (co-authored with Jane Suiter, Cornell University Press, 2019), and A Conservative Revolution? (co-edited with Michael Marsh, and Gail McElroy, OUP, 2017). His current work is focused on constitutional deliberation. To date he has advised and/or researched five government-led deliberative mini-public processes (citizens' assemblies) in Ireland and the UK.
Niamh Hardiman teaches at UCD School of Politics and International Relations. She is the Director of the UCD Public Policy programme, and a Research Fellow at UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy. Her research interests focus on the implications of developmental pathways for state capacity, policy choices, and economic performance. She has published extensively on the evolution of the Irish state, on the comparative politics of the financial crisis and its aftermath, and on the political economy of the European periphery.