Ireland, Northern Ireland and 1992

The Barriers to Technocratic Anti‐partitionism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8090122
AutoresThomas Lyne (autor de correspondencia)
Año1990
Volumen68
Número4
Páginas417-433
Fecha de publicación1990-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPublic Administration (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0033-3298 • E-ISSN: 1467-9299
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9299.1990.tb00770.x
OpenAlexW1994691593
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas2

This article examines the likely effects of 1992 on the relationship between the Republic and Northern Ireland. In particular, it seeks to assess the strategy of undermining partition through economic integration. After looking at the positions of the advocates of such a strategy and of its opponents, the difficulties in the way of the successful pursuit of such a policy are examined. These are: the extent to which the Single European Act will be made fully operative; the economic limits on cross‐border cooperation; the administrative and governmental difficulties of pursuing cross‐border cooperation; and the degree to which the political and cultural foundations of partition are independent of the economy. The article concludes with the argument that these barriers are such that a reliance on the pressures generated by the Single European Act and on a purely technocratic strategy of cross‐border cooperation will not be sufficient to alter the constitutional relationship between the Republic and Northern Ireland

Argument (complex analysis · Economics · Ethnology · Northern ireland · Partition (number theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Technocracy · The Republic · Irish and British Studies · Law · Public Administration