Religion as an indicator of ethnicity in Northern Ireland‐an alternative perspective

Doherty, Paul; Poole, Michael A.

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“…Indeed Doherty and Poole (2002) argue for alternatives to the ethnic groups of Catholic and Protestant in order to reflect the fluidity of ethnicity observed in the 1991 Census Sample of Anonymised Records.…”

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Integrated education in Northern Ireland in the context of critical multiculturalism

McGlynn¹

2003

Irish Educational Studies

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Integrated education in Northern Ireland in the context of critical multiculturalism

McGlynn¹

2003

Irish Educational Studies

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“…These differing stances over the territorial arrangements largely overlapped with the ethno‐religious cleavage within society (O'Leary, 2019; O'Malley & Walsh, 2013). In turn, this cleavage was reinforced by the conflict, which increased polarization and solidified residential segregation (Doherty & Poole, 2002; Guelke, 2000).…”

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Territorial disputes and affective polarization

BALCELLS,

DANIELS,

KUO

2023

European J Political Res

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Can territorial disputes within countries be a basis for affective polarization? If so, how does it vary across territories? A burgeoning literature on affective polarization has largely focused on partisan divisions; we argue that contentious political issues such as those relating to territorial integrity can also be a basis for such affective polarization, where citizens feel concord with those sharing such policy preferences and animus for those who do not. We specify hypotheses about territorial‐policy‐based affective polarization and bring comparative survey evidence from three European regions with salient and contentious territorial claims: Scotland, Catalonia and Northern Ireland. While these three cases encompass different outcomes of territorial disputes, our results show strikingly similar levels of affective polarization.

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“…Even leaving aside those who failed to return census forms, the religion non-response rate was 9.4% in 1971 and 18.5% in 1981, compared with only 1.9% in 1961. In the absence of any nationalist boycott campaign in 1991, non-response fell, but it remained significant at 7.3% (with an additional 3.8% specifying that they had no religion) (Doherty and Poole, 2002: 77). The question added in 2001 was designed to address this.…”

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Census politics in Northern Ireland from the Good Friday Agreement to Brexit: Beyond the ‘sectarian headcount’?

Cooley

2020

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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While ethno-national demography has featured significantly in political and scholarly debates about Northern Ireland, little attention has been paid to the politics of the Northern Ireland census itself. This article addresses this gap by exploring census politics since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. It demonstrates that the border poll provision of the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit have increased the political salience of census results, with the 2021 census now being anticipated by many as a potential referendum trigger. Against this background, I argue that new census questions – on religious background and national identity – have had significant consequences for debates about the constitutional future. Introduced in order to satisfy requirements stemming partly from equalities legislation, an unintended consequence of the religious background question has been to reinforce ‘two communities’ narratives in constitutional debates, whereas the national identity question has served to problematise assumptions about relationships between identity and constitutional preferences.

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Religion as an indicator of ethnicity in Northern Ireland‐an alternative perspective

Cited by 17 publications

References 8 publications

Integrated education in Northern Ireland in the context of critical multiculturalism

Integrated education in Northern Ireland in the context of critical multiculturalism

Territorial disputes and affective polarization

Census politics in Northern Ireland from the Good Friday Agreement to Brexit: Beyond the ‘sectarian headcount’?

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