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Introduction: Theorising Politics, Cillian Mcbride
Introduction: Theorising Politics, Cillian Mcbride
Cillian McBride
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Introduction: Theorising Politics, Cillian Mcbride, Jurgen De Wispelaere, Shane O'Neill
Introduction: Theorising Politics, Cillian Mcbride, Jurgen De Wispelaere, Shane O'Neill
Jurgen De Wispelaere
This is the introduction to a special issue of Irish Political Studies on "Recognition, Equality, Democracy", to appear in December 2007 as a journal and sometime in 2008 as an edited collection published by Taylor & Francis.
Identity, Unity, And The Limits Of Democracy, Cillian Mcbride
Identity, Unity, And The Limits Of Democracy, Cillian Mcbride
Cillian McBride
Can the demos be uncoupled from the ethnos? Can there be a democratic politics of state-boundaries, or are borders a condition of the possibility of democratic politics rather than a possible subject for those politics? The author argues for the decoupling strategy and affirms the possibility of a democratic politics about borders, anchoring the discussion in the politics of Northern Ireland. The argument turns on the analysis of public reasoning. It is argued first that culturalist accounts of self-determination are misconceived and that political institutions, and not cultural identity, make collective self-determination possible. Secondly, that the demos is constituted by …