Thresholds of State Change
Changing British State Institutions and Practices in Northern Ireland after Direct Rule
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6344751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Todd (0000-0002-4156-4393, University College Dublin) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 522-538 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9248.12082 |
| OpenAlex | W1535164444 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 30 |
A long process of state-institutional change underlay an eventual swift restructuring of Northern Ireland on a more equal basis in the 2000s. This article shows how change occurred and explains its phasing, arguing that it took a threshold form. It gives a distinctive characterisation of the ‘recognition’, ‘agenda‘ and ‘implementation’ thresholds, and the different politics that followed each. This model of state change is of interest in three ways: in providing a distinctive characterisation and explanation of the process; in addressing the comparative literature on ‘exclusion’, conflict and settlement by sketching a threshold model of change from ‘exclusion’ to ‘inclusion’ and in speaking to a pressing moral concern – if settlement was possible at all, why was it not possible sooner? The article makes use of new evidence in the form of over 70 elite interviews with senior British and Irish politicians and officials who made, influenced and closely observed the process
Economics · Elite · Irish · Northern ireland · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Settlement (finance · Sociology · State (computer science · Irish and British Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
The Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1985
The Good Friday Agreement, 1998
The Good Friday Agreement, 1998
Conclusion
Note on Documents
Introduction
The Downing Street Declaration and Framework Documents, 1993–1995
The Sunningdale Agreement, 1973
Positive institutional changes through peace
Consociation, Conditionality, and Commitment
The Twilight of the United Kingdom & Tiocfaidh ár lá
The First Major Step in the Peace Process’? Exploring the Impact of the Anglo-Irish Agreement on Irish Republican Thinking
The British–Irish Relationship in the Twenty-first Century
Resolving international border disputes
Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969-2019
The Vulnerability of the Northern Ireland Settlement
Restructuring the State
Territorial Politics and Institutional Change
Paradoxes of identity change
Contested Constitutionalism? Northern Ireland and the British–Irish Relationship since 2010
History, Structure and Action in the Settlement of Complex Conflicts
Powerful yet Precarious
The use of triangulation in qualitative studies employing elite interviews
Power
Politics in Time
Thresholds of Opportunity and Barriers to Change in the Right‐Sizing of States
Explaining Institutional Change
John Hume and the Revision of Irish Nationalism
The Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland
Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict
Power
Fair employment in Northern Ireland
Territory and power in the United Kingdom
The Northern Ireland Conflict
Northern Ireland 1968–2008
Crisis of confidence
State, Power, Socialism
Institutional Change and Conflict Regulation
Path Dependence in Settlement Processes
Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel? New Data and Analysis
The Past's Promise
Institutional change in varieties of capitalism
Northern Ireland and the politics of reconciliation
Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War
Problems and Prospects for Democratic Settlements
Afterword
| Unique citing works | 23 |
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| Citations per year | 1,92 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |