Contested Constitutionalism? Northern Ireland and the British–Irish Relationship since 2010
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of comparative politics, S. gsw019
ISSN: 1460-2482
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of comparative politics, S. gsw019
ISSN: 1460-2482
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 21-42
ISSN: 1469-8129
AbstractHow does political structure affect ethno‐national distinction? Partitioned societies are a good test case where we can see the effects of changed socio‐political circumstances on historically inherited distinction. This article takes nominally identical distinctions of nationality and religion with common historical roots and shows how they are differentially understood in two polities partitioned in 1920: Northern Ireland, a devolved region of the United Kingdom, and the Irish state. Using a data base of interviews with over 220 respondents, of which 75 in Northern Ireland, conducted between 2003 and 2006, it shows how complex, potentially totalising and exclusive 'ethnic' and 'ethno‐national' divisions are built up from simpler and more permeable distinctions. Respondents interrelate the same elements into a loosely‐knit symbolic structure – different in each jurisdiction – which frames expectations and discourse, and which is associated with different logics of national discourse, one focussing on personal orientation, the other on group belonging. The resultant 'ethno‐national' distinctions function differently North and South.
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 21-42
ISSN: 1354-5078
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 62, Heft 3, S. 522-538
ISSN: 1467-9248
A long process of state-institutional change underlay an eventual swift restructuring of Northern Ireland on a more equal basis in the 2000s. This article shows how change occurred and explains its phasing, arguing that it took a threshold form. It gives a distinctive characterisation of the 'recognition', 'agenda' and 'implementation' thresholds, and the different politics that followed each. This model of state change is of interest in three ways: in providing a distinctive characterisation and explanation of the process; in addressing the comparative literature on 'exclusion', conflict and settlement by sketching a threshold model of change from 'exclusion' to 'inclusion'; and in speaking to a pressing moral concern - if settlement was possible at all, why was it not possible sooner? The article makes use of new evidence in the form of over 70 elite interviews with senior British and Irish politicians and officials who made, influenced and closely observed the process. Adapted from the source document.
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 62, Heft 3, S. 522-538
ISSN: 1467-9248
A long process of state-institutional change underlay an eventual swift restructuring of Northern Ireland on a more equal basis in the 2000s. This article shows how change occurred and explains its phasing, arguing that it took a threshold form. It gives a distinctive characterisation of the 'recognition', 'agenda' and 'implementation' thresholds, and the different politics that followed each. This model of state change is of interest in three ways: in providing a distinctive characterisation and explanation of the process; in addressing the comparative literature on 'exclusion', conflict and settlement by sketching a threshold model of change from 'exclusion' to 'inclusion' and in speaking to a pressing moral concern – if settlement was possible at all, why was it not possible sooner? The article makes use of new evidence in the form of over 70 elite interviews with senior British and Irish politicians and officials who made, influenced and closely observed the process.
In: West European politics, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 838-858
ISSN: 1743-9655
In: West European politics, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 838-858
ISSN: 0140-2382
World Affairs Online
In: THE ANGLO-IRISH AGREEMENT, CONSTITUTIONAL CONCEPTS IN TRANSITION, A. Aughey, C. Gormley-Heenan, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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In: West European Politics 34 (4), pp. 838-858, July 2011
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In: Ethnopolitics, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 85-102
ISSN: 1744-9065
In: Adrian Guelke, ed., The Challenges of Ethno-Nationalism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 145-160
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In: Ethnopolitics, Band 10, Heft 2
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In: Nationalism & ethnic politics, Band 15, Heft 3-4, S. 336-354
ISSN: 1557-2986
In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique : RCSP, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 824
ISSN: 0008-4239
In: Nationalism and ethnic politics, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 305-336
ISSN: 1353-7113