The United Kingdom

Bogdanor, Vernon

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-11565-5_2

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“…Discussions about Northern Ireland's constitutional future echoed wider debates about devolution in Great Britain during that decade, although the form they took in Northern Ireland was, given its particular circumstances, quite distinct (Mitchell, 2009;Bogdanor, 2001). Such an examination has demonstrated that the existing accounts of the Northern Ireland conflict, inspired by consociational theory, are in need of revision.…”

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Pragmatists versus dogmatists: Explaining the failure of power-sharing in Northern Ireland during the 1970s

McDaid

2014

Br Polit

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2This article argues that the failure of Northern Ireland's first power-sharing executive, and subsequent attempts to restore power-sharing during the 1970s, was the result of conflicting attitudes towards devolution among Northern Ireland's politicians.Traditional ideological divisions between nationalists and unionists were not the primary barrier to creating and sustaining cross-community institutions, as stressed in accounts of this period premised on consociational theory. Drawing extensively from archival sources, it argues that the split between the pragmatists from both communities, prepared to compromise their core principles and accept powersharing devolution within a United Kingdom (UK) framework, and the dogmatists (both nationalists and unionists) who refused to contemplate any compromise to their core position prevented a consensual political settlement emerging during the 1970s.

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Pragmatists versus dogmatists: Explaining the failure of power-sharing in Northern Ireland during the 1970s

McDaid

2014

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“…In the words of Robert Crawford, ' devolution and a reassertion of Scottish nationhood were imagined by poets and writers long before being enacted by politicians' (Crawford 2000, 307). Political historians and sociologists tend to offer a different set of explanations, centred on electoral politics, economic factors and largely invisible processes of UK institutional reform (Bogdanor 2001, Mitchell 2012, Devine 2016). With few exceptions, the first school pays as little attention to the 1973 Kilbrandon Report as the latter does to Alasdair Gray's Lanark (1981).…”

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Narrating Devolution: Politics and/as Scottish Fiction

Hames

2017

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings

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“…However, given that Scotland is, in Bogdanor's terms a 'historic nation' but not a fully-developed nation state (Bogdanor, 1999), field theory as used by Brubaker to study emergent post-Soviet nation states is particularly relevant to our focus. For Brubaker (1996: 17) Mouffe's contention that democratic politics is in itself a matter of adversarial conflict (Mouffe, 2000) rather than an arena of deliberative democracy: although each political field is in itself a matter for empirical study to ascertain how politics operates within it (Adler-Nissen, 2012).…”

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“…Briefly then, Scotland is one of the 'kingdoms' of the United Kingdom (UK), a 'historic' nation, but not a wholly independent or fully-developed nation state (Bogdanor, 1999;Williams, 1996). The UK is not, therefore, in itself a nation state or 'unitary state' (Rokkan and Urwin, 1982), but rather a 'union state' or (according to Mitchell, 2010) 'a state of unions'.…”

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Women leaders in the political field in Scotland: A socio-historical approach to the emergence of leaders

Robinson

Kerr

2017

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Drawing on a contextualised case, we present a specific approach to leadership studies that brings together history, sociology and politics. We start with the following event. In August 2015, the election of Kezia Dugdale as leader of the Labour Party meant that, for the first time the leaders of the three main political parties in the Scottish Parliament were women. We approach the study of this significant leadership event, first, through a critique of aspects of leadership studies as a field. We next consider the potential for socio-historical approaches in understanding this event. Then, as a contextualised example of this alternative approach to studying leadership, we apply Bourdieu's theoretical concepts-in particular the political field-in order to historicise the conditions of possibility of this event. Finally, we consider issues of power and gender in relation to how the leaders position themselves in relation to their parties and to each other within the political field. In so doing, we contribute to critical leadership studies by developing and demonstrating a socio-historical approach that can help us to identify processes of organisation and change in relation to the emergence of leaders.

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The United Kingdom

Cited by 12 publications

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Pragmatists versus dogmatists: Explaining the failure of power-sharing in Northern Ireland during the 1970s

Pragmatists versus dogmatists: Explaining the failure of power-sharing in Northern Ireland during the 1970s

Narrating Devolution: Politics and/as Scottish Fiction

Women leaders in the political field in Scotland: A socio-historical approach to the emergence of leaders

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