Consociation and voting in Northern Ireland party competition and electoral behavior
Consociation and voting in Northern Ireland: party competition and electoral behavior

For thirty years, Northern Ireland was riven by sustained ethnonationalist conflict over the issue of whether the territory should remain part of the United Kingdom or reunify with the Republic of Ireland. The 1998 Belfast or "Good Friday" Agreement brought peace to the region by instituti...

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1. Verfasser: Garry, John 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia, Pa. University of Pennsylvania Press [2016]
Schriftenreihe:National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century
Schlagworte:
Geschichte 2007-2011
Politik
Psychologie
Group identity > Political aspects > Northern Ireland > 21st century
Northern Irish > Political activity > 21st century
Political parties > Northern Ireland > 21st century
Voting > Northern Ireland > Psychological aspects > 21st century
Wahlverhalten
Konkordanzdemokratie
Nordirland
Online-Zugang:DE-1043
DE-1046
DE-858
DE-Aug4
DE-898
DE-859
DE-860
DE-473
DE-29
DE-739
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Zusammenfassung:For thirty years, Northern Ireland was riven by sustained ethnonationalist conflict over the issue of whether the territory should remain part of the United Kingdom or reunify with the Republic of Ireland. The 1998 Belfast or "Good Friday" Agreement brought peace to the region by instituting a consociational government, which acknowledged the political differences between nationalists and unionists in Northern Ireland and established a legislative body characterized by power-sharing between the region's political parties. In Consociation and Voting in Northern Ireland, the first study to address electoral behaviors and opinions in a power-sharing society, John Garry interrogates the democratic efficacy of Northern Ireland's consociational government.John Garry investigates the electoral period between 2007—when all of Northern Ireland's major political parties joined the power-sharing government—and 2011 and analyzes postelection survey data to assess the democratic behavior of Northern Irish voters. The evidence is used to address the following questions: How democratic is a consociational government? If all the main parties are in the government, and there are no opposition parties per se, is it possible for voters to hold the government to account? Do power-sharing structures simply perpetuate underlying divisions in the constituency? And since consociational power sharing relies on agreements between senior politicians, can citizens end up feeling disillusioned and, therefore, disinclined to vote? In the process of answering these questions, Garry presents new information on shifting identity formations in Northern Ireland and extends his analysis to the implications of power-sharing agreements for other nations
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed April 28, 2017)
Beschreibung:1 online resource 76 illus
ISBN:9780812293135
DOI:10.9783/9780812293135

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