Why the good friday agreement in Northern Ireland is not consociational

Political Quarterly

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 357-367

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EID: 24944468794     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2005.00694.x     Document Type: Review

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1. I would like to thank James Anderson, Gladys Ganiel, Clodagh Harris, Eric Kaufman, Ian Lustick, Joanne McEvoy, Eamonn O'Kane and Jon Tonge for their comments on various drafts of this paper; none of these bears any responsibility for the content.
2. Rupert Taylor, 'A consociational path to peace in Northern Ireland and South Africa?' in A. Guelke (ed.), New Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Conflict, Aldershot, Avebury, p. 166.
3. Paul Dixon, 'Paths to peace in Northern Ireland (I): Civil society and consociational approaches', Democratization, vol. 4, no. 2, 1997;
4. and T. Sisk, Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts, Washington, US Institute for Peace, 1996.
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6. Brendan O'Leary and John McGarry, The Politics of Antagonism, London, Athlone, 1993, p. 325.
7. John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary, Explaining Northern Ireland, London, Blackwell, 1995, p. 338.
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9. O'Leary and McGarry, The Politics of Antagonism, p. 234;
10. and McGarry and O'Leary, Explaining Northern Ireland, p. 321.
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13. Mo Mowlam, Momentum, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2002, pp. 118-19, p. 124.
14. Paul Dixon, 'Consociationalism and the Northern Ireland peace process: the glass half full or half empty?', Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol. 3, no. 3, 1997.
15. Arend Lijphart, Democracy in Plural Societies, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1977, p. 1.
16. The Good Friday Agreement, 10 April 1998, p. 18, para. 13.
17. Brendan O'Leary 'The character of the 1998 Agreement', in Rick Wilford (ed.), Aspects of the Belfast Agreement, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 60.
18. Joint Declaration, 2003, p. 8, para. 27.
19. McGarry and O'Leary, Explaining Northern Ireland, p. 405.
20. Paul Dixon, 'Consociationalism and the Northern Ireland peace process', pp. 30-2.
21. Andrew Rawnsley, Servants of the People, London, Hamish Hamilton, 2000, p. 138.
22. Paul Dixon, 'Political skills or lying and manipulation? The choreography of the Northern Ireland peace process', Political Studies, vol. 50, no. 3, autumn 2002;
23. Paul Dixon, Northern Ireland: The Politics of War and Peace, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001.