IRA violence and Sinn Fein's revolutionary politics plagued Northern Ireland for 30 years. Today, however, violence is (mostly) a tactic of the past and Sinn Fein is a major political player in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. This is one of the most startling transformations of a radical violent movement in recent times.
What exactly changed within Irish republicanism? What has stayed the same? And, crucially what caused this transformation? By examining republicanism's electoral participation and engagement in democratic bargaining, together with the role of Irish-America and British government policy, Matthew Whiting argues that moderation was a long-term process of concessions by republicanism in return for increased inclusion within the political system.
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'The long march through the institutions' was once a revolutionary strategy. Yet Matthew Whiting shows that in Ireland such an approach has moved Sinn Fein from revolution to moderation. He explains why, in what is an original and comparative book on the changing relationship between democracy and republicanism in Ireland. -- Bill Kissane, London School of Economics
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978-1-4744-5304-2 (9781474453042)
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Matthew Whiting is Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Birmingham. He was a contributor to Security in East Asia: Traditional and Non-Traditional Issues in the 21st Century edited by by Ramon Pacheco Pardo and Jeffrey Reeves (Imperial College Press, 2015).
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Fellow in Comparative PoliticsUniversity of Reading
1. Introduction; 2. Radicalism and Moderation in the History of Irish Republicanism; 3. Electoral Participation and Republican Moderation; 4. Democratisation and Reining-In Radical Republicanism; 5. The US and Brokering Republican Moderation; 6. British Policy Towards Irish Republicanism; 7. Conclusion.
