Explaining Irish democracy
By: Bill Kissane.
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Democracy -- Ireland -- History.; Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1922-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction; title: 2 Democratic theory and the Irish Free State; title: 3 Economic development and democracy in Ireland; title: 4 The Barrington Moore thesis and Irish political development; title: 5 Civil society and democratic practice under the union; title: 6 Voluntarist democratic theory and the origins of the civil war; title: 7 The Durkheimian Interpretation of the civil war; title: 8 Reshaping the Free State: De Valera and the rise of constitutional republicanism; title: 9 'Majority rule' and the constitutional development of the Free State 1922-37; title: 10 Conclusion.