Rick Wilford
Biographic Data
| ID | 4097801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rick Wilford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rick |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilford |
| SIGNATURE | WILFORD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Two Cheers for Consociational Democracy? Reforming the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive
This article discusses the attempts to reform the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive by the former's Assembly and Executive Review Committee. It situates the Committee's review of the Belfast Agreement's Strand One institutions within the context both of prior proposals to effect reform and the constraints, institutional and behavioural, created by Northern Ireland's model of consociational democracy
Political Institutions, Engagement and Outreach: The Case of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Journal Article Political Institutions, Engagement and Outreach: The Case of the Northern Ireland Assembly Get access Alistair Clark, Alistair Clark * 1School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University * Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rick Wilford Rick Wilford 2School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast Sear…
Northern Ireland: The Politics of Constraint
Journal Article Northern Ireland: The Politics of Constraint Get access RicK Wilford RicK Wilford Queen's UniversityBelfastUK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 134–155, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsp046 Published: 25 November 2009
Consociational government: Inside the Northern Ireland Executive
The restoration of devolution inMay 2007 prompted some in Northern Ireland to identify with the queen in Alice in Wonderland who believed in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. The image of Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams sitting in angular proximity and, thereafter, recurring photographs of the chucklesome First Minister and Deputy First Minister, Dr Paisley and Martin McGuinness, seemed like the stuff of dreams – or, perhaps, nightma…
The virtual election: The 2003 Northern Ireland assembly election
The paper sets the context for the November 2003 election, reports its results and discusses the consequences of the electoral outcomes. It notes that the election did not take place within an atmosphere that was conducive to the resolution of the outstanding difficulties, notably over the decommissioning issue, and that the advance of the DUP and Sinn Fein has frustrated the prospect of an early restoration of devolution. The paper also looks at…
Northern Ireland's Devolved Institutions: A Triumph of Hope over Experience
(2003). Northern Ireland's Devolved Institutions: A Triumph of Hope over Experience? Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 31-54
Aspects of the Belfast Agreement
Consenting Adults: The Principle of Consent and Northern Ireland's Constitutional Future
If A Majority Of People In Northern Ireland Ever Voted To become part of a United Ireland what would you do?’ At first sight the question may seem plucked from the realms of constitutional fantasy. A united Ireland seems an unlikely prospect, at least in anything but the long term. Even proponents of unity predict a 15–20 year wait. Yet the 1998 Good Friday Agreement empowers the people of Northern Ireland to decide their own constitutional futur…
The assembly and the executive: A discursive appraisal∗
Designing the Northern Ireland Assembly
Journal Article Designing the Northern Ireland Assembly Get access R Wilford R Wilford Queen's University, Belfast, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 3, July 2000, Pages 577–590, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/53.3.577 Published: 01 July 2000
Personal Dynamics as Political Participation
Women's Candidacies and Electability in a Divided Society: The Northern Ireland Women's Coalition and the 1996 Forum Election
This paper provides a narrative analysis of the emergence of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition and of its performance at the 1996 Forum Election. Drawing on a postal survey of its candidates, it explores the opportunities and constraints that face women seeking candidacy and election in a divided society in which they have experienced a history of low electoral representation. It concludes that the informal requirements of candidacy and elec…
Women's candidacies and electability in a divided society: The Northern Ireland women's coalition and the 1996 forum election
Personal Dynamics as Political Participation
The responses of 1,404 women and 386 men to a probability sample survey of political attitudes and participation in Northern Ireland are reported. A broad definition of political activity is employed that includes personal assertiveness in personal relationships. The results reveal women by and large to be less involved politically and more passive than men. For women, the arena for political discussion is centered among family relationships; whi…
Small earthquake in Chile: The first northern Ireland affairs select committee∗
This article details the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the first Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee in 1994, and considers its effectiveness in the period up to the 1997 election. Although its foundation was controversial, the Committee undertook a number of worthy investigations, mainly of a non‐contentious character, which are examined. The article concludes with an evaluation of its performance
The 1997 Westminster election in northern Ireland
Women, ethnicity and nationalism: The Politics of Transition
This new study documents the processes of political transition in countries steeped in 'old' nationalist rivalries or which have experienced the 'revival' of ethnic nationalism. Each of the book's contributors describes and explains how recent constructions of national identities disadvantage women in what has been trumpeted as the 'new world order'. An extensive introductory chapter and a discussion of gender, nation and nationalism are followed…
Irish political data 1996
Women and Politics in Northern Ireland
Journal Article Women and Politics in Northern Ireland Get access RICK WILFORD RICK WILFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 1996, Pages 41–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028672 Published: 01 January 1996
Irish political data 1995
Irish political data 1994
The Northern Ireland affairs select committee
Irish political data 1993
In Their Own Voices: Women Councillors in Northern Ireland
Based largely on in‐depth interviews with the majority of women local councillors in Northern Ireland, this article addresses two substantive issues: the reasons for the numerical underrepresentation of women and the issue of gender difference. The authors illustrate and explore these questions within the context of both the councillors’ own responses and that supplied by a concurrent survey of the general population. While the councillors and th…
Irish political data 1992
Northern Ireland: The Politics of Constraint
Journal Article Northern Ireland: The Politics of Constraint Get access RicK Wilford RicK Wilford Queen's UniversityBelfastUK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 134–155, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsp046 Published: 25 November 2009
Political Institutions, Engagement and Outreach: The Case of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Journal Article Political Institutions, Engagement and Outreach: The Case of the Northern Ireland Assembly Get access Alistair Clark, Alistair Clark * 1School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University * Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rick Wilford Rick Wilford 2School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast Sear…
In Their Own Voices: Women Councillors in Northern Ireland
Based largely on in‐depth interviews with the majority of women local councillors in Northern Ireland, this article addresses two substantive issues: the reasons for the numerical underrepresentation of women and the issue of gender difference. The authors illustrate and explore these questions within the context of both the councillors’ own responses and that supplied by a concurrent survey of the general population. While the councillors and th…
Women and Politics in Northern Ireland
Journal Article Women and Politics in Northern Ireland Get access RICK WILFORD RICK WILFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 1996, Pages 41–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028672 Published: 01 January 1996
Consenting Adults: The Principle of Consent and Northern Ireland's Constitutional Future
If A Majority Of People In Northern Ireland Ever Voted To become part of a United Ireland what would you do?’ At first sight the question may seem plucked from the realms of constitutional fantasy. A united Ireland seems an unlikely prospect, at least in anything but the long term. Even proponents of unity predict a 15–20 year wait. Yet the 1998 Good Friday Agreement empowers the people of Northern Ireland to decide their own constitutional futur…
Personal Dynamics as Political Participation
The responses of 1,404 women and 386 men to a probability sample survey of political attitudes and participation in Northern Ireland are reported. A broad definition of political activity is employed that includes personal assertiveness in personal relationships. The results reveal women by and large to be less involved politically and more passive than men. For women, the arena for political discussion is centered among family relationships; whi…
Designing the Northern Ireland Assembly
Journal Article Designing the Northern Ireland Assembly Get access R Wilford R Wilford Queen's University, Belfast, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 3, July 2000, Pages 577–590, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/53.3.577 Published: 01 July 2000
Two Cheers for Consociational Democracy? Reforming the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive
This article discusses the attempts to reform the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive by the former's Assembly and Executive Review Committee. It situates the Committee's review of the Belfast Agreement's Strand One institutions within the context both of prior proposals to effect reform and the constraints, institutional and behavioural, created by Northern Ireland's model of consociational democracy
The 1992 Westminster election in Northern Ireland
Irish political data 1990
Northern Ireland's Devolved Institutions: A Triumph of Hope over Experience
(2003). Northern Ireland's Devolved Institutions: A Triumph of Hope over Experience? Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 31-54
Women's Candidacies and Electability in a Divided Society: The Northern Ireland Women's Coalition and the 1996 Forum Election
This paper provides a narrative analysis of the emergence of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition and of its performance at the 1996 Forum Election. Drawing on a postal survey of its candidates, it explores the opportunities and constraints that face women seeking candidacy and election in a divided society in which they have experienced a history of low electoral representation. It concludes that the informal requirements of candidacy and elec…
Irish political data 1995
Irish political data 1994
The Northern Ireland affairs select committee
An end to discrimination? The Northern Ireland fair employment act of 1989
British ministers have called the recent Fair Employment (NI) Act the toughest and most extensive anti‐discrimination measure passed by parliament Radical critics condemned it as incoherent and reflecting limited commitment to equality of employment opportunity for the Catholic minority. This article identifies underlying problems in framing effective equal opportunity legislation, traces the Government's attempt to secure a broad base of support…
The ‘Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals’
In order to attempt an understanding of a period that has been variously described as a 'pink', and 'low, dishonest decade', it is of some relevance to consider the role played by certain of the groups which multiplied during the 1930s and contributed towards the 'heady' debate of those years. While much has been written on the direct rivals of the Labour Party notably the Communist and Independent Labour Parties, and the Socialist League little …
The virtual election: The 2003 Northern Ireland assembly election
The paper sets the context for the November 2003 election, reports its results and discusses the consequences of the electoral outcomes. It notes that the election did not take place within an atmosphere that was conducive to the resolution of the outstanding difficulties, notably over the decommissioning issue, and that the advance of the DUP and Sinn Fein has frustrated the prospect of an early restoration of devolution. The paper also looks at…
The assembly and the executive: A discursive appraisal∗
Small earthquake in Chile: The first northern Ireland affairs select committee∗
This article details the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the first Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee in 1994, and considers its effectiveness in the period up to the 1997 election. Although its foundation was controversial, the Committee undertook a number of worthy investigations, mainly of a non‐contentious character, which are examined. The article concludes with an evaluation of its performance
The 1997 Westminster election in northern Ireland
Irish political data 1996
Irish political data 1993
Irish political data 1992
Irish political data 1991
The ‘Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals’
In order to attempt an understanding of a period that has been variously described as a 'pink', and 'low, dishonest decade', it is of some relevance to consider the role played by certain of the groups which multiplied during the 1930s and contributed towards the 'heady' debate of those years. While much has been written on the direct rivals of the Labour Party notably the Communist and Independent Labour Parties, and the Socialist League little …
The PEN Club, 1930-50
There is little doubt that one recurring question which continues to tax literary intellectuals hinges on the emotive issue of the social responsibility of the writer. In pursuit of this question, those interested in the role of the intellectual have, to some extent, tended to focus their attention on the 1930s. During that decade, variously described as 'pink' or 'red', it has been argued that there was a great political awakening and mobilizati…
Further Considerations on the Referendum: The Evidence of the Welsh Vote on Devolution
Developments during the 1970s, suggest that the referendum might become a more permanent feature of British politics. The Welsh referendum provides additional evidence as to its operational characteristics, which indicates: that organized interests can play a significant, if not crucial, role; that the polarization of issues on a ‘Yes-No’ axis promotes confusion; that external events and, in particular, the government's standing, intrude on the c…
The Police, Public Order, and the State: Policing in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, the USA, Israel, South Africa, and China
This study identifies trends in public-order policing across a broad sample of seven countries: Britain, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, the United States of America, Israel, South Africa and China. It explains why the handling of disorder has become a controversial and topical issue in different parts of the world
Irish political data, 1989
Irish political data 1990
An end to discrimination? The Northern Ireland fair employment act of 1989
British ministers have called the recent Fair Employment (NI) Act the toughest and most extensive anti‐discrimination measure passed by parliament Radical critics condemned it as incoherent and reflecting limited commitment to equality of employment opportunity for the Catholic minority. This article identifies underlying problems in framing effective equal opportunity legislation, traces the Government's attempt to secure a broad base of support…
Irish political data 1991
The 1992 Westminster election in Northern Ireland
In Their Own Voices: Women Councillors in Northern Ireland
Based largely on in‐depth interviews with the majority of women local councillors in Northern Ireland, this article addresses two substantive issues: the reasons for the numerical underrepresentation of women and the issue of gender difference. The authors illustrate and explore these questions within the context of both the councillors’ own responses and that supplied by a concurrent survey of the general population. While the councillors and th…
Irish political data 1992
Irish political data 1993
Irish political data 1994
The Northern Ireland affairs select committee
Women and Politics in Northern Ireland
Journal Article Women and Politics in Northern Ireland Get access RICK WILFORD RICK WILFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 1996, Pages 41–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028672 Published: 01 January 1996
Irish political data 1995
Irish political data 1996
The 1997 Westminster election in northern Ireland
Women, ethnicity and nationalism: The Politics of Transition
This new study documents the processes of political transition in countries steeped in 'old' nationalist rivalries or which have experienced the 'revival' of ethnic nationalism. Each of the book's contributors describes and explains how recent constructions of national identities disadvantage women in what has been trumpeted as the 'new world order'. An extensive introductory chapter and a discussion of gender, nation and nationalism are followed…
Personal Dynamics as Political Participation
Women's Candidacies and Electability in a Divided Society: The Northern Ireland Women's Coalition and the 1996 Forum Election
This paper provides a narrative analysis of the emergence of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition and of its performance at the 1996 Forum Election. Drawing on a postal survey of its candidates, it explores the opportunities and constraints that face women seeking candidacy and election in a divided society in which they have experienced a history of low electoral representation. It concludes that the informal requirements of candidacy and elec…
Women's candidacies and electability in a divided society: The Northern Ireland women's coalition and the 1996 forum election
Personal Dynamics as Political Participation
The responses of 1,404 women and 386 men to a probability sample survey of political attitudes and participation in Northern Ireland are reported. A broad definition of political activity is employed that includes personal assertiveness in personal relationships. The results reveal women by and large to be less involved politically and more passive than men. For women, the arena for political discussion is centered among family relationships; whi…
Small earthquake in Chile: The first northern Ireland affairs select committee∗
This article details the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the first Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee in 1994, and considers its effectiveness in the period up to the 1997 election. Although its foundation was controversial, the Committee undertook a number of worthy investigations, mainly of a non‐contentious character, which are examined. The article concludes with an evaluation of its performance
Designing the Northern Ireland Assembly
Journal Article Designing the Northern Ireland Assembly Get access R Wilford R Wilford Queen's University, Belfast, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 3, July 2000, Pages 577–590, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/53.3.577 Published: 01 July 2000
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