Consociational Theory: McGarry and O'Leary and the Northern Ireland Conflict

ISBN-13: 9780415429139 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 416 str.

Rupert Taylor

Opis

Consociational theory explains how democratic stability is possible in culturally or ethnically segmented political systems.  It is one of the most important theories in Comparative Politics and one of the most contested. This volume brings together the leading proponents and opponents of consociational theory and conflict resolution.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Promise of Consociational Theory Rupert Taylor  Part 1: Argument  1. Power Shared after the Death of Thousands John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary Part 2: Commentaries  2. Recognition, Equality, Difference: Achieving Democracy in Northern Ireland Shane O’Neill  3. Consociationalism and the Wider Peace Process  Adrian Guelke  4. Peace by Design? Towards "Complex Power Sharing" Stefan Wolff  5. Implementing Consociation in Northern Ireland John Coakley  6. Ethnic Party Competition and the Dynamics of Power-Sharing in Northern Ireland Paul Mitchell and Geoffrey Evans  7. Consociationalism and the Creation of a Shared Future for Northern Ireland Stephen Farry  8. Consociational Government: Inside the Northern Ireland Executive Rick Wilford  9. In Search of the Consociational "Spirit of Accommodation"Jürg Steiner  10. A Culture of Power-Sharing Michael Kerr  11. From Consociationalism to Interculturalism Robin Wilson  12. Squaring some Vicious Circles: Transforming the Political in Northern Ireland John Cash  13. Sunningdale for Slow Learners? Towards a Complexity Paradigm Adrian Little  14. Progressive Integration (and Accommodation, too)Ian O’Flynn  15. Ways of Seeing? Consociationalism and Constitutional Law Theory John Morison  16. Debating the Agreement: Beyond a Communalist Dynamic? Liam O’Dowd  17. The Injustice of a Consociational Solution to the Northern Ireland Problem Rupert Taylor  Part 3: Response  18. Under Friendly and Less Friendly Fire John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary

O autorze

Rupert Taylor is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.