Devolution and Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland

by Carmichael, Paul; Knox, Colin; Osborne, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780719073885
• ISBN10: 071907388X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

Summary

This edited book tracks Northern Ireland's uneasy experience with devolution following the optimistic political period associated with the 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement. It will be of interest to students of Irish politics and public policy, but more generally, from a comparative perspective, those with an interest in devolution and constitutional change.

Author Biography

Paul Carmichael is Professor of Public Policy and Government and Head of the School of Policy Studies at the University of Ulster. Colin Knox is Professor of Comparative Public Policy in the School of Policy Studies at the University of Ulster. Robert Osborne is Professor of Applied Policy Studies and Director of the Social and Policy Research Institute at the University of Ulster.

Table of Contents

Introduction: background

Constitutional innovation since 1972: where next?

Public attitudes to constitutional options in the context of devolution

Towards a new constitutional doctrine for Northern Ireland? The Agreement, the litigation and the constitutional future

Stabilising the Northern Ireland Agreement

From deference to defiance: popular Unionism and the decline of elite accommodation in Northern Ireland

Nationalism and Republicanism

Party competition and voting behaviour since the Agreement

Symbols and identity in the ‘new’ Northern Ireland

The changing role of woman in the context of devolution

Equality and human right since the Belfast Agreement

Inside Stormont: the assembly and the executive

The financial framework

The review of public administration

The Northern Ireland economy: economic development structures

Devolution and public policy making

Stormont, Westminster and Whitehall

Wider horizons: cross-border and cross-channel relations

The European dimension

Introduction: background

Constitutional innovation since 1972: where next?

Public attitudes to constitutional options in the context of devolution

Towards a new constitutional doctrine for Northern Ireland? The Agreement, the litigation and the constitutional future

Stabilising the Northern Ireland Agreement

From deference to defiance: popular Unionism and the decline of elite accommodation in Northern Ireland

Nationalism and Republicanism

Party competition and voting behaviour since the Agreement

Symbols and identity in the ‘new’ Northern Ireland

The changing role of woman in the context of devolution

Equality and human right since the Belfast Agreement

Inside Stormont: the assembly and the executive

The financial framework

The review of public administration

The Northern Ireland economy: economic development structures

Devolution and public policy making

Stormont, Westminster and Whitehall

Wider horizons: cross-border and cross-channel relations

The European dimension

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