Suspended vote: The 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly election

Political Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 226-237

  Hazleton, William A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 3142681184     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923x.2004.00607.x     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. 'Political attitudes', Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2002, http://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/2002/Political_Attitudes/AACHIEVE.html
2. A News Letter poll asked: 'Should the Secretary of State end suspension of the Stormont Institutions or continue with direct rule?' Twenty-seven per cent of unionists surveyed favoured ending suspension without further progress on decommissioning; 57% favoured ending suspension if the IRA pledged it 'would never again use weapons under any circumstances'; and 76% favoured ending suspension if 'the IRA decommissioned all weapons and disbanded'. See News Letter (Belfast), 19 May 2003, http://icnorthernireland.icnetwork.co.uk/news/
3. In a poll conducted for the Belfast Telegraph, 85% of Protestants and 60% of Catholics were 'not satisfied' with the 'decommissioning of paramilitary weapons', placing the issue at the top of the 'to do lists' for both communities. See Colin Irwin, 'Devolution and the State of the Northern Ireland Peace', February 2003, p. 4, http://www.peacepolls.org/, accessed 12 March 2004.
4. See Ian McAllister, '"The Armalite and the ballot box": Sinn Fein's electoral strategy in Northern Ireland', Electoral Studies, vol. 23, no. 1, March 2004, pp. 123-42.
5. See Geoffrey Evans and Brendan O'Leary, 'Northern Irish voters and the British-Irish Agreement: foundations of a stable consociational settlement?', Political Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 1, 2000, pp. 78-101.
6. See Sydney Elliott, 'Northern vote sees over 80 per cent of transfers stay within main parties', Irish Times, 1 December 2003, and http://www.ireland.com/focus/nielection/comment/1201.htm
7. For a breakdown of party candidates by sex and a brief analysis by Rick Wilford and Roger MacGinty, see University College London, The Constitution Unit, Devolution Monitoring Programme, Northern Ireland Report 18, February 2004, p. 35, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/monrep/ni/ni_february_2004. pdf
8. Political Attitudes, Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2002, http://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/2002/Political_Attitudes/AACHIEVE.html
9. See Robin Wilson and Liz Fawcett, 'The media election: coverage of the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly poll', Democratic Dialogue, January 2004, http://www.democraticdialogue.org/documents/Mediacover_000.pdf
10. See Paul Mitchell, Brendan O'Leary and Geoffrey Evans, 'Northern Ireland: flanking extremists bite the moderates and emerge in their clothes', Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 54, no. 4, 2001, pp. 725-47.
11. For the 2003 Assembly election reports filed by the parties, see Register of Campaign Expenditures, http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/regulatory- issues/gbcampaignex.cfm
12. When asked weeks before the election 'Who would you prefer as First or Deputy First Minister?', 49% of respondents indicated SDLP's Mark Durkan, 46% UUP's David Trimble, 17% Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams, 7% DUP's Ian Paisley, and 4% for the more likely DUP First Minister, Peter Robinson; see Belfast Telegraph Exclusive Opinion Poll, 23 November 2003, http://www.belfasttelegraph. co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=463708.
13. Briedge Gadd, 'Remember the MLAs we have let slip', Irish News (Belfast), 2 December 2003.