Reaching across: institutional barriers to cross-ethnic parties in post-conflict societies and the case of Northern Ireland
Reaching across: institutional barriers to cross-ethnic parties in post-conflict societies and the case of Northern Ireland
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跨越：冲突后社会跨种族政党的制度障碍和北爱尔兰的案例
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2015
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Cera Murtagh
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Cera Murtagh
本文探讨了冲突后社会中尽管公众态度和身份显著趋同，但跨种族政党仍处于边缘地位的悖论。在这样做的过程中，它审查了这样一种观点，即试图跨越鸿沟的政党受到旨在适应这种环境中敌对身份的联盟机构的限制。本文在北爱尔兰的背景下探讨了这个难题，借鉴了2012年和2013年收集的精英访谈和焦点小组的定性证据。报告的结论是，在该区域活动的跨社区政党确实遇到了正式的体制障碍，但这种障碍只是部分地解释了这一现象，正式和非正式限制之间的相互作用是其选举成功相对有限的原因。
This paper investigates the paradox in post-conflict societies of continued marginality of cross-ethnic parties despite significant convergence in public attitudes and identities. In so doing, it examines the argument that parties that attempt to reach across the divide are constrained by consocational institutions designed to accommodate rival identities in such environments. The paper explores this puzzle in the context of Northern Ireland, drawing upon qualitative evidence from elite interviews and focus groups collected in 2012 and 2013. It concludes that cross-community parties operating in the region do encounter formal institutional barriers, but that such barriers only partially explain the phenomenon and an interplay between formal and informal constraints underlies their position of relatively limited electoral success.