286 research outputs found
Jonathan Tonge : Northern Ireland
No full textMaignant Catherine. Jonathan Tonge : Northern Ireland. In: Études irlandaises, n°31 n°2, 2006. Irish English : variétés et variations / Irish English, Varieties and Variations sous la direction de Maryvonne Boisseau et Françoise Canon-Roger. p. 159
Jonathan Tonge : The New Northern Irish Politics
No full textGillissen Christophe. Jonathan Tonge : The New Northern Irish Politics. In: Études irlandaises, n°30 n°1, 2005. pp. 213-214
Supplemental Material, pp-2015-0219-File003 - Partisan and religious drivers of moral conservatism: Same-sex marriage and abortion in Northern Ireland
No full textSupplemental Material, pp-2015-0219-File003 for Partisan and religious drivers of moral conservatism: Same-sex marriage and abortion in Northern Ireland by Jocelyn Evans, and Jonathan Tonge in Party Politics</p
Beyond the Youth Citizenship Commission: young people and politics
No full textGordon Brown established the Youth Citizenship Commission in 2008 to investigate how to increase the involvement of young people in British democracy. Although recommendations were taken forward by the previous government, youth disengagement remains a problem. In the first of a new series on Democratic Audit, Jonathan Tonge and Andy Mycock introduce a set of proposals from leading political scientists, addressing the need for practical steps to reconnect young people to politics
Ed Miliband should recognise that 16 and 17 year olds can be part of our democracy even if they do not have the vote
Get PDFEd Miliband has recently backed a call from Democratic Audit and a range of youth organisations to lower the voting age in the UK to 16. In this post, the latest in our series on youth participation in democracy, Andy Mycock and Jonathan Tonge make the point that votes at 16 will not be a panacea to the problem of youth disengagement, and suggest we need wider reform of a political system that has become increasingly insular, self-selecting, and unrepresentative
How new party members are modernising the DUP
No full textThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in Northern Ireland has undergone significant transformation since Northern Ireland’s ‘peace deal’, the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Much of this transformation has been brought about by a sizeable influx of new members. The impact of new members is a surprisingly under-researched area. Here, Raul Gomez and Jonathan Tonge draw upon a recent membership study to examine how new arrivals contributed to altered attitudes from the DUP
Some progress made, still much to do : youth political engagement since the youth citizenship commission
No full textBook Review: Britain votes 2015 edited by Andrew Geddes and Jonathan Tonge
No full textIn the edited collection Britain Votes 2015, editors Andrew Geddes and Jonathan Tonge present essays analysing the main issues and outcomes of the 2015 UK General Election. Offering a concise and well-rounded account of an election often promoted in the media as one of the most unpredictable of recent times, this book is recommended reading for students of contemporary British politics, writes Gordon Bannerma
The Government needs to implement Youth Citizenship Commission proposals to turn schools into ‘sites of democracy’
No full textAs part of our series on youth participation, Andy Mycock and Jonathan Tonge consider the progress made in the five years since the Youth Citizenship Commission made a series of recommendations to government. They find that many of its proposals have been adopted, although without much fanfare. One area where there has been little change is in the use of schools to engage young people in democracy: the authors argue that electoral registration should take place via schools, there should be enhanced democracy within schools, and they should remain open when used as polling stations
Voter registration levels for the Scottish independence referendum are already showing the potential benefits of lowering the voting age to 16
Get PDF16 and 17 year olds will be allowed to vote in the Scottish independence referendum in September. Kyle Thornton, Chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament, welcomes this move and explores how young people are responding to the opportunity. Responding to recent posts by Craig Berry and Andy Mycock & Jonathan Tonge, Thornton argues that giving 16-17 year olds the vote can improve participation in the long term by getting them into the voting habit earlier
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