Ireland and the Politics of Change
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Ireland and the politics of change / edited by William Crotty and David E. Schmitt,
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0582328942 (ppr)
1. Social changeIreland. 2. IrelandSocial conditions20th century. 3. IrelandPolitics and government20th century. 4. Social changeNorthern Ireland. 5. Northern IrelandSocial conditions. 6. Northern IrelandPolitics and government.
I. Crotty, William J. II. Schmitt, David E.
HN400.3.A8I745 1998
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To Mary and Joan
Contents
William Crotty
Jonathan Haughton
Tony Fahey
Niamh Hardiman and Christopher Whelan
John Coakley
Yvonne Galligan
Niamh Hardiman
Tom Garvin
Brigid Laffan and Rory ODonnell
Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd
Adrian Guelke
David E. Schmitt
John Coakley, BA, MA (National University of Ireland) College Lecturer, Department of Politics, University College, Dublin. Secretary General, International Political Science Association; formerly lecturer in politics, University of Limerick. Research interests include Irish politics, comparative politics and ethnic conflict. Select publications: The Social Origins of Nationalist Movements (contributing editor; Sage 1992); The Territorial Management of Ethnic Conflict (contributing editor; Frank Cass 1993); Politics in Republic of Ireland (contributing co-editor; PSAI Press and Folens 1992; second edition 1993).
William Crotty, PhD (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Thomas P. ONeill Chair in Public Life, Director of the Center for Comparative Democracy and Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University. Research interests include political representation, political parties democratisation, electoral change and comparative election procedures and policy. He is the author and editor of a number of books, has served as president of several professional organisations and was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the political parties section of the American Political Science Association and the Hubert H. Humphrey Award of the Policy Studies Association.
Tony Fahey, MA (Maynooth College), PhD (University of Illinois, Urbana) is a Senior Research Officer at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin. His research interests include religion, the family, family law and demography in Ireland. His most recent book, co-authored with John Fitz Gerald is entitled Welfare Implications of Demographic Trends (Oak Tree Press 1997).
Yvonne Galligan, BA, MA (National University of Ireland), PhD (University of Dublin, Trinity College) Lecturer in Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin. Her research interests include public policy, interest groups and women in politics. She has written numerous articles, reports, book chapters and conference papers on the role of women in Irish politics. She is author of Women in Contemporary Irish Politics (Pinter 1998) and contributing co-editor of Contesting Politics: Women in Ireland, North and South (Westview Press 1998).
Tom Garvin, BA, MA (National University of Ireland), PhD (Georgia) Professor of Politics; Head of Department of Politics, University College, Dublin. Alumnus, Wilson Center, Washington, DC; Fulbright Scholar. Research interests include nationalism as an international phenomenon, Irish political history and development. Select publications include The Irish Senate (Institute of Public Administration 1969); The Evolution of Irish Nationalist Politics (Gill and Macmillan 1981; second edition 1983); Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland (Clarendon 1987); 1922: The Birth of Irish Democracy (Gill and Macmillan 1996).
Adrian Guelke, MA (Cape Town), PhD (London). Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queens University, Belfast. Formerly Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations at the University of Witwaterstrand, Johannesburg. Research interests include international relations and the politics of deeply divided societies (particularly South Africa and Northern Ireland). Select publications include The Age of Terrorism and the International Political System (1995), Northern Ireland: The International Perspective. Editor of The South African Journal of International Affairs.
Niamh Hardiman, BA, MA (National University of Ireland), D. Phil. (Oxon). College lecturer, Department of Politics, University College, Dublin. Formerly Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Somerville College, Oxford. Research interests include the political economy of labour movements, economic policy, and welfare states. Select publications include Pay, Politics and Economic Performance (Clarendon Press 1988); and papers in J. H. Goldthorpe and C. T. Whelan (eds) The Development of Industrial Society in Ireland (Oxford University Press and the British Academy 1993), C. Whelan (ed) Values and Social Change in Ireland (Gill and Macmillan 1994), D. Nevin (ed) Trade Union Century (Mercier Press 1994).
Jonathan Haughton, PhD (Harvard University) is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Suffolk University and Faculty Associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development. He has taught at Harvard University, Wellesley College and Northeastern University. His publications include Historical Overview in John OHagan (ed) The Economy of Ireland (Macmillan 1995) and numerous articles in scholarly journals. He has taught, lectured or undertaken research in almost 20 countries. His most recent work deals with ways to speed the economic recovery of countries emerging from civil war.
