The New Politics of Sinn Féin [electronic resource].
Bean, Kevin.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2007.
The New Politics of Sinn Féin is an assessment of the ideological and organizational development of Provisional republicanism since 1985. The book explores how the Republican movement has changed from an anti-state insurgency to a potential partner in governing the state it was pledged to destroy. In particular, the book attempts to consider the origins of what has become known as 'New Sinn Féin'.
Description based upon print version of record.
Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Defining the Community; Introduction to Part I; 1: Shaping the Terrain: Economy, State and Civil Society; 2: From Resistance Community to Community Politics; 3: 'They Haven't Gone Away, You Know': The Withering Away of the 'Provisional State'?; Part II: The Historic Compromise?; Introduction to Part II; 4: The Ideological Origins of New Sinn Féin; 5: On the Long Road: The Provisional Politics of Transition; 6: The Historic Compromise?; Conclusion: The End of a Song?; Bibliography; Index
The New Politics of Sinn Féin is an assessment of the ideological and organizational development of Provisional republicanism since 1985. The book explores how the Republican movement has changed from an anti-state insurgency to a potential partner in governing the state it was pledged to destroy. In particular, the book attempts to consider the origins of what has become known as 'New Sinn Féin'.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sinn Fein.
Provisional IRA.
Nationalism.