The Belfast Agreement and the Limits of Consociationalism

New Security Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 183-198

  Taylor, Rupert ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Assembly Election; Civil Society; Deliberative Democracy; Divide Society; Single Transferable Vote

Indexed keywords

EID: 85144682535     PISSN: 27310329     EISSN: 27310337     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230582552_9     Document Type: Chapter

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