Northern Ireland: Continuity, Change and Prospects
9:15am - 1:30pm /
Thursday 19th November 2015
Type: Conference /
Category: Research
- Viola Segeroth
- Suitable for: Anyone with an interest in the politics of Northern Ireland.
- Admission: Free of charge.
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The Department of Politics and the Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool will host this special conference at Queen's University Belfast. The conference features extensive data, drawn from the ESRC Northern Ireland 2015 election study, on a broad range of political questions. Public opinion on a range of 'old' and 'new' cultural and political issues, including Orange parades, flag-flying, same-sex marriage, abortion, views of the 'other' community, willingness to vote transfer across the divide, non-voting and assessment of Stormont's performance are all included.
Recent months have seen apparent political paralysis in Northern Ireland. Arguments over welfare reform, allegations of continued paramilitarism and a seeming lack of trust between the leaderships of unionism and nationalism have stymied political progress.
What do Northern Ireland’s electors think of the political institutions and the parties within them and what are the electorate’s priorities for change? To what extent is the public politically engaged or disengaged? How strong is the desire for new political thinking?
The 2015 Northern Ireland Election Study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, brought together academics from the universities of Aberdeen, Leeds, Liverpool, the London School of Economics and Queen’s University Belfast to ask a wide range of questions of voters and non-voters on political and social issues, in a large-scale survey undertaken by Social Market Research Belfast. This conference examines the electorate’s answers. The conference brings together academics, politicians, journalists and pressure groups to analyse the degree of support for the political institutions, assesses the extent of inter-party and inter-bloc electoral rivalries (is there any evidence of thawing?); discusses the high level of political apathy; explores the relative importance of age, income, gender and religion in shaping attitudes and tackles some of the most controversial social and cultural divides within the Northern Ireland polity.
Recent months have seen apparent political paralysis in Northern Ireland. Arguments over welfare reform, allegations of continued paramilitarism and a seeming lack of trust between the leaderships of unionism and nationalism have stymied political progress.
What do Northern Ireland’s electors think of the political institutions and the parties within them and what are the electorate’s priorities for change? To what extent is the public politically engaged or disengaged? How strong is the desire for new political thinking?
The 2015 Northern Ireland Election Study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, brought together academics from the universities of Aberdeen, Leeds, Liverpool, the London School of Economics and Queen’s University Belfast to ask a wide range of questions of voters and non-voters on political and social issues, in a large-scale survey undertaken by Social Market Research Belfast. This conference examines the electorate’s answers. The conference brings together academics, politicians, journalists and pressure groups to analyse the degree of support for the political institutions, assesses the extent of inter-party and inter-bloc electoral rivalries (is there any evidence of thawing?); discusses the high level of political apathy; explores the relative importance of age, income, gender and religion in shaping attitudes and tackles some of the most controversial social and cultural divides within the Northern Ireland polity.