A Contribution to Rupert Taylor’s Critique of Consociationalism in Northern Ireland

摘要: Political scientists John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary’s liberal consociational model argues that a power-sharing political settlement can be effective in resolving ethnic conflict.  scientist Rupert Taylor, by contrast, against model, claiming the arrangement does not address underlying sectarianism which binds communities into two reified groups, reinforcing subordination both between within them.  Specifically terms of Northern Ireland, Taylor cites socio-economic deprivation as an instance sectarianism; Irish Catholics are consistently found subaltern, disadvantaged positions relative to their Protestant peers “rights, opportunities, resources.”  By integrating economy-centred analytical approaches, this essay demonstrates economic dimension (particularly capital its resulting class inequalities) has been structurally implicated Ireland conflict, continually reinventing itself throughout history.