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Explaining settlement in Northern Ireland: power, perception and path dependence

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  • Joseph Ruane

    (University College Cork)

  • Jennifer Todd

    (Geary Institute, University College Dublin)

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This paper criticizes four typical explanations of settlement of internal conflicts, showing that they fail to give an adequate explanation of the 1998 settlement in Northern Ireland. Instead of inductively searching for recurrent proximate factors or proceeding deductively by applying general theoretical models to settlement processes, it suggests that it may be more fruitful to search for underlying path dependent processes which regulate how the factors highlighted in the other approaches function.

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  • Joseph Ruane & Jennifer Todd, 2006. "Explaining settlement in Northern Ireland: power, perception and path dependence," Working Papers 200603, Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
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