The Ulster Unionist Party : country before party? /
The Ulster Unionist Party: Country Before Party? uses unprecedented access to the party that dominated Northern Ireland politics for decades to assess the reasons for its decline and to analyse whether it can recover. Having helped produce the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, the Ulster Unionist Party...
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Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
Publication Dates: | 2019. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | First edition. |
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The Ulster Unionist Party: Country Before Party? uses unprecedented access to the party that dominated Northern Ireland politics for decades to assess the reasons for its decline and to analyse whether it can recover. Having helped produce the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) struggled to deliver the deal amid unease over aspects of what its leadership negotiated. Paramilitary prisoner releases, policing changes, and power-sharing with the republican 'enemy' were all controversial. As the UUP leader won a Nobel Peace Prize, his party began to lost elections. For |
Carrier Form: | xiv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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9780198794387 019879438X |
Index Number: | JN1572 |
CLC: | D756.164-09 |
Call Number: | D756.164-09/H515 |
Contents: | Introduction -- The UUP during the Troubles, 1969-1998 -- Country before party: the long Good Friday -- Electoral politics: the disorderly management of decline? -- Who are the UUP members - and what do they believe? -- Safeguarding the union: UUP ideology and discourse -- Britishness and Northern Irishness: identity and the UUP -- Attitudes towards other parties -- Liberal and secular or protestant and orange? Religion and the UUP -- Institutional structures, party selection, and spotty tights: women in the Ulster Unionist Party -- Conclusion: the future of the Ulster Unionist Party. |