A fresh start? The Northern Ireland Assembly election 2016
A fresh start? The Northern Ireland Assembly election 2016
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一个新的开始？
DOI：
10.1080/07907184.2016.1255202
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
Matthews N
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文献类型：
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作者：
Matthews N
当北爱尔兰各地的选民于 2016 年 5 月 5 日前往投票站时，他们并没有明显看出他们正在参加一场具有里程碑意义的选举。之前的竞选活动基本上平淡无奇，选民没有受到鼓舞，选票的竞争主要是按照可预测的民族界限进行的。民主统一党和新芬党分别保住了统一党和民族主义政党的主导地位，而阿尔斯特统一党和社会民主工党则难以维持现有的支持，更不用说扩大支持了。跨社群联盟党仍停滞在第五位。然而，这些与之前选举连续性的明显迹象掩盖了更深层次的实质性变化迹象。北爱尔兰第一个在现有结构内正式反对派的成立以及选举后一个月内政府框架计划草案的公布，标志着联合权力共享的新时代的到来。与此同时，对小政党支持的增加、选民投票率的进一步下降以及围绕社会问题的激烈辩论表明，选举舞台上的民族维度的重要性至少部分下降。
As voters across Northern Ireland went to the polls on 5 May 2016, it was by no means obvious that they were participating in a landmark election. The preceding campaign was largely lacklustre, voters were left uninspired, and competition for votes was primarily conducted along predictable ethno-national lines. The Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin retained their positions as the dominant unionist and nationalist parties respectively, while the Ulster Unionist Party and Social Democratic and Labour Party struggled to retain their existing support, let alone expand it. The cross-community Alliance Party remained stagnant in fifth place. However, these ostensive signs of continuity with previous elections mask deeper signs of substantive change. The establishment of Northern Ireland’s first official opposition within current structures and the publication of a draft Programme for Government framework within a month of the election are indicative of a new era in consociational power sharing. Meanwhile, the growth in support for smaller parties, a further fall in voter turnout and an audible debate around social issues suggest at least a partial decline in the salience of the ethno-national dimension in the electoral arena.
加变化：2014 年北爱尔兰地方选举
影响因子：
0.7
作者：
Matthews N
通讯作者：
Matthews N
极端主义在少数民族政党体系中的出价并非不可避免：北爱尔兰论坛报政党
影响因子：
3.1
作者：
P. Mitchell;Geoffrey Evans;B. O’Leary
通讯作者：
B. O’Leary