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Consociation and voting in Northern Ireland : party competition and electoral behavior / John Garry.
Author
Garry, John, 1969-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st edition.
Published/Created
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
©2016
Description
174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Available Online
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Firestone Library - Stacks
JN1572.A95 G37 2016
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Subject(s)
Voting
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Northern Ireland
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Psychological aspects
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21st century
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Northern Irish
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Political activity
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21st century
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Group identity
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Political aspects
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Northern Ireland
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21st century
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Political parties
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Northern Ireland
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21st century
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Northern Ireland
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Politics and government
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21st century
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Series
National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century
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National and ethnic conflict in the twenty-first century
Summary note
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. -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172) and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Consociation and Voting: Ideology, Performance, and Participation
ch. 2 Ideology and Vote Choice
ch. 3 Ideology and Potential Support for British and Irish Parties
ch. 4 Electoral Accountability and Performance-Based Voting
ch. 5 Performance and Potentially Voting Across the Divide
ch. 6 Understanding Nonparticipation
ch. 7 Conclusions.
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ISBN
9780812248371 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0812248376 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016026832
OCLC
945950047
Other standard number
40026527202
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