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Over the Rainbow : Relationships between Loyalists and Republicans in the Northern Ireland Assembly
No full textThis article examines social and political relationships in Northern Ireland in the wake of the suspension of the devolved Northern Ireland Assembly. It explores the working relationships between Irish republicans and Ulster loyalists in the Assembly. It identifies those social and economic issues that offer the greatest prospects for co-operation. It also assesses how both groupings envisage the future development of Northern Ireland's devolved institutions and the extent to which models of institutional co-operation may promote a "spillover" effect that may eventually result in the thawing of social and political relationships between loyalist and republican communities in the wider society.Cet article examine les relations sociales et politiques en Irlande du Nord à la suite de la suspension de l'Assemblée nord-irlandaise. Il explore les rapports qui se sont tissés entre républicains irlandais et loyalistes ulsteriens dans le cadre du travail quotidien de cette Assemblée. Il identifie les domaines sociaux et économiques les plus susceptibles de favoriser la coopération. Il évalue également comment les deux groupes conçoivent le futur développement des institutions régionales nord-irlandaises et explore à quel point des modèles de coopération institutionnelle pourraient produire un « effet domino » susceptible de contribuer à long terme au dégel des tensions sociales et politiques entre les loyaliste et républicaine à l'échelle de la société tout entière.McAuley James White, Tonge Jon. Over the Rainbow : Relationships between Loyalists and Republicans in the Northern Ireland Assembly. In: Études irlandaises, n°28 n°1, 2003. pp. 177-194
The Orange Order in Northern Ireland: Has political isolation, sectarianism, secularism, or declining social capital proved the biggest challenge?
Get PDFThe Orange Order remains one of the largest and most significant organisations within civic society in Northern Ireland. It provides an institutional focus for the distinctive social, religious, and cultural traditions associated with Protestant British unionism in the region. However, having gone from a commanding position at the outbreak of the Troubles in 1968 with sizeable political influence and approximately 100,000 members, the Order has been reduced to the margins within the new, post–conflict polity in Northern Ireland. The principal aim of this research is to assess why the Orange Order has suffered political and numerical decline in the region and clarify how this distinctly ethno–religious organisation has adapted (or failed to adapt) to the changed political and social contexts in which it exists. In order to do this, a qualitative, ethno–graphic study drawing upon interviews with Orange Order members is undertaken. This involves detailed examination of discourses, documents and events. This thesis tests four competing hypotheses of the primary causes of retreat: (1) loss of political power since the collapse of Northern Ireland Parliament in 1972; (2) marginalisation through the growing unacceptability and diminishing appeal of overt religious sectarianism; (3) secularism within society; and, (4) the decline in social capital. These hypotheses are tested in terms of their contribution to the marginalisation of the Orange Order in Northern Ireland.
The collapse of Northern Ireland’s devolved political structure in the early 1970s removed the Order’s capacity to wield political influence. Following the sidelining of local political actors thereafter, epitomised by the intergovernmental nature of the Anglo–Irish Agreement, unionism later found itself again in turmoil in the wake of the divisive Good Friday Agreement in 1998. The Agreement prescribed a parity of esteem between the two traditions and further – and irreversibly – changed the status quo in which the institution operated. The Order’s reputation for perpetuating sectarianism was already being challenged internally within and also beyond unionism and it has struggled for so–called middle–class respectability. Concurrently, an increasingly atomistic society and diminishing social capital has left the Orange Order with less relevancy or attraction for Protestant Unionists in the twenty–first century, especially when compared to earlier periods. Whilst this thesis upholds the argument that political and social marginalisation have been key causes of decline, the impact of secularism is found to have been of less – but far from negligible – significance. Amid its struggle for relevancy, the Orange Order operates in heavily reduced circumstances in which the institution attempts to retain its membership in an era when attracting new blood is difficult. Nonetheless, the thesis argues that Orangeism remains an important political and cultural strand of loyalism in Northern Ireland, adapting to become one closely associated with band traditions which show little sign of diminution
Steady Progress or a Failure to Seize the Moment? The Liberal Democrats? 2005 General Election Performance
No full textThe Northern Ireland Assembly and its Members: A Study of Representation, Linkage, Scrutiny, and Policy-making.
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Steady Progress or a Failure to Seize the Moment? The Liberal Democrats? 2005 General Election Performance
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Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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