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Consociational Power-Sharing in Northern Ireland, from leading scholars in the field, explores the evolution and challenges of consociational power-sharing in Northern Ireland for politics and societal relations.
List of contents
1: Northern Ireland's Uncertain Stability
2: Configurations of Consociation and Antinomies of Accommodation: Explaining the Trajectories of Settlement in Northern Ireland
3: The Uncertainties of 'Political Stability'
4: Governing with Basic Consensus: Public Attitudes to Power-Sharing in Northern Ireland
5: 'For God's Sake Get Up and Walk!' Fostering the Spirit of Accommodation in Northern Ireland
6: Unintended Consequences of Consociational Institutions: The Case of Northern Ireland
7: A Critical Mass of Crises? Openings for Others
8: Consociational Power-Sharing and Sectarianism: A Critical Race Theory Perspective
9: Gender, Sexuality, and Consociationalism in Northern Ireland
10: Cross-Segmental Parties and Political Stability in Northern Ireland
11: The Persistance of the Communal Binary in Consociational Thought: A Genealogical Critique
12: Beyond Consociationalism: From Conservative Communalism to Civic Cosmopolitanism
13: Preparing for the End of Consociational Power-Sharing?
14: Consociationalism and the Accommodation of Ethno-National Conflict in a United Ireland
About the author
Timofey Agarin is Reader in Comparative Ethnic Conflict at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He is author of
Minority Rights and Minority Protection in Europe (with Karl Cordell, 2016) and has published in journals such as the
International Political Science Review,
British Journal of Politics and International Relations, and
Representation.
Rupert Taylor is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queen's University Belfast, UK. He is author of
Systemic Racism in South Africa: Humanity Lost (2024) and the editor of
Consociational Theory: McGarry and O'Leary and the Northern Ireland Conflict (2009) and
Third Sector Research (2010).
