Consociationalism and its critics: Evidence from the historic Northern Ireland Assembly Election of 2007:
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01/09/2009
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Critics of consociational power-sharing institutional arrangements in deeply divided societies argue that such arrangements solidify the underlying conflict cleavage and render it all-important for party competition and voter behaviour. I find evidence to the contrary in the case of voter behaviour at the historic 2007 Assembly election in Northern Ireland. At least in the unionist bloc, I find the effective disappearance of the ethno-national conflict cleavage as a determinant of voter choice. This suggests that consociational arrangements have led to both inclusion and moderation, rather than polarisation and ‘ethnic outbidding’ |
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eng |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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Garry , J 2009 , ' Consociationalism and its critics: Evidence from the historic Northern Ireland Assembly Election of 2007: ' Electoral Studies , vol 28 , no. 3 , pp. 458-466 . DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2009.05.004 |
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