Consociation and Voting in Northern Ireland: Party Competition and Electoral Behavior

by John Garry

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812248376
• ISBN13: 9780812248371
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"