Colin Harvey: Reconstructing the ‘Political Constitution’ of Northern Ireland
For reasons that are not difficult to grasp, the constitutional process in Northern Ireland has been marked by fragility and instability. The entity ‘Northern Ireland’ – carved out in the early 1920s –...
View ArticleChristopher McCrudden: Equality and the Good Friday Agreement: Fifteen Years On
The Northern Ireland peace agreement was born on the 10th April 1998, Good Friday, in Belfast and will thus celebrate its 15th birthday next week. One of the central elements of the Agreement was to...
View ArticleChristine Bell: A Modest Proposal: Power-sharing for the UK
This blog argues that the UK is moving towards a form of consociational (political power-sharing) constitutional settlement. I consider whether embracing and developing its silent consociational...
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