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Gerry Fitt and the SDLP
Gerry Fitt was a key political figure in Northern Ireland for over 20 years, yet there is no major historical evaluation of his contribution, nor of his legacy or place in the memory of the minority community there. Drawing on unpublished party and private papers, recently released Irish and British government papers, and interviews, this book studies the role of Gerry Fitt in the politics of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and examines the first decade of the party through the lens of his leadership.
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The hoods
A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in joyriding and other types of antisocial behavior. Between 1973 and 2007, more than 5,000 nonmilitary shootings and assaults were attributed to paramilitaries punishing their own people. But despite the risk of severe punishment, young petty offenders--known locally as \"hoods\"--continue to offend, creating a puzzle for the rational theory of criminal deterrence. Why do hoods behave in ways that invite violent punishment?
InThe Hoods, Heather Hamill explains why this informal system of policing and punishment developed and endured and why such harsh punishments as beatings, \"kneecappings,\" and exile have not stopped hoods from offending. Drawing on a variety of sources, including interviews with perpetrators and victims of this violence, the book argues that the hoods' risky offending may amount to a game in which hoods gain prestige by displaying hard-to-fake signals of toughness to each other. Violent physical punishment feeds into this signaling game, increasing the hoods' status by proving that they have committed serious offenses and can \"manfully\" take punishment yet remained undeterred. A rare combination of frontline research and pioneering ideas,The Hoodshas important implications for our fundamental understanding of crime and punishment.
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Power sharing and the Irish dimension
Seamus Mallon, then deputy leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) famously remarked in 1998 that the Good Friday Agreement was ‘Sunningdale for slow learners’. With this comment, Mallon was reinforcing a teleological narrative of the SDLP’s history and contribution to nationalism in Northern Ireland: that the central tenets of the SDLP’s founding philosophy – power sharing with the provision of an Irish dimension – had been vindicated. Writing in 1998, shortly after the agreement had been reached, Gerard Murray (1998 : 261) also commented that The Good Friday Agreement reflects the SDLP impact on contemporary Northern Ireland politics and
Book Chapter
A Postmodern Ireland?
In New York it is Hip to be Irish, according to a recent feature in the Irish Times. Anna Mundow, following a New York Times article of the same title, comments on the city's current infatuation with things Irish. Of course New York is always ready to assert its Irish heritage, but in the wake of Riverdance, Angela's Ashes, and The Druid Theatre, the wearing of the Green has escaped the confines of the St Patrick's Day parade. It seems that it is not enough that the real history of Irish emigration, poverty, and politics is woven into the fabric of the city.
Magazine Article
The Comparative Politics of Labor-Initiated Reforms
This article explores the reasons why some reform initiatives launched by the Swedish labor movement have succeeded and others have failed. It presents four case studies: two success stories (the pension reform of 1959 and the industrial democracy reforms of the 1970s), and two failures (inheritance taxation in the 1920s and 1940s, and wage-earner funds in the 1970s). The article casts these case studies in an analytical framework that emphasizes three variables. To the extent that they challenge the interests of capital, labor's reform initiatives are likely to precipitate a powerful countermobilization, but the politics of reformism are also shaped by the extent to which labor's initiatives embody a universalistic conception of social justice and/or appeal to the material interests of swing voters.
Journal Article
IRISH AYES ARE SMILING
\"It's great to be in Belfast during a week when history is being made,\" said Bono, leader of the Irish rock band U2 and the best known Irishman in the world, when he came to Belfast for a three-song rock concert and media event a few days before the May 22 vote on the Irish Peace Agreement. Before launching into a particularly heartfelt rendition of John Lennon's \"Don't Let Me Down,\" he brought two men on stage who, he said, \"had taken a leap of faith out of the past and into the future.\"
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