Beyond Good Friday
Governance Possibilities in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland
1st Edition
Published on 11. December 2025
224 pages
979-8-216-25184-2 (ISBN)
Description
The impact of Brexit on Northern Ireland's governing institutions has pushed consideration of the constitutional future and status of the region to a level of salience unthinkable just a decade ago. While Brexit has fundamentally changed the trajectory of Northern Irish politics, an understanding of what the future of governance might look like is no longer theoretical. Beyond Good Friday: Governance Possibilities in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland investigates and analyzes not only the challenges of the existing political institutions for the region but considers and explores dimensions of the numerous options that could fundamentally change Northern Ireland's constitutional status and governance model. While unification with the Republic of Ireland or maintaining the status quo as part of the United Kingdom are the conventional choices, Paul S. Adams explores and assesses other options, including co-sovereignty, which while previously rejected, may, along with other alternatives, need to be reconsidered considering changing social, economic, and political conditions in post-Brexit Northern Ireland.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
979-8-216-25184-2 (9798216251842)
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€121.30
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Person
Paul S. Adams is associate professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, USA. He specializes in comparative politics and international relations, specifically the politics of Europe, Northern Ireland, the European Union, and of non-majoritarian forms of democracy including neo-corporatism and consociationalism.
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Flammable Materials: Governance Challenges Under the Good Friday System
Chapter 2 Undertones: Conceptualizing Consociational Democracy
Chapter 3 The System is Here: Consociational Governance Under the Good Friday Agreement
Chapter 4 Outcast: Brexit's Multifaceted Impacts on Governing Northern Ireland
Chapter 5 Alternative Ulsters: Future Governance Options for Northern Ireland
Chapter 6 Fly the Flags: Condominium and Co-Sovereignty
Conclusion: Good Vibrations - Constitutional Change and the Future
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
Introduction
Chapter 1 Flammable Materials: Governance Challenges Under the Good Friday System
Chapter 2 Undertones: Conceptualizing Consociational Democracy
Chapter 3 The System is Here: Consociational Governance Under the Good Friday Agreement
Chapter 4 Outcast: Brexit's Multifaceted Impacts on Governing Northern Ireland
Chapter 5 Alternative Ulsters: Future Governance Options for Northern Ireland
Chapter 6 Fly the Flags: Condominium and Co-Sovereignty
Conclusion: Good Vibrations - Constitutional Change and the Future
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
