LEADER 04435nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910824965503321 005 20230324173802.0 010 $a0-7735-8067-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773580671 035 $a(CKB)2670000000148982 035 $a(OCoLC)767670216 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10580870 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000690252 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11414129 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000690252 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10623222 035 $a(PQKB)10750984 035 $a(CEL)435959 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00230133 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3332305 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10577889 035 $a(OCoLC)923236603 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/fc439k 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3332305 035 $a(DE-B1597)657565 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773580671 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000148982 100 $a19830111d1981 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||a|| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIn search of political stability $ea comparative study of New Brunswick and Northern Ireland /$fEdmund A. Aunger 210 1$aMontreal :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d1981. 215 $a1 online resource (239 pages) $cillustrations, maps 311 0 $a0-7735-0366-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [201]-214) and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: Fragmentation and Instability -- 2. Two Fragmented Communities -- 3. Stability and Instability -- 4. The Ethnic and Religious Cleavages -- 5. The Class Cleavage -- 6. The Political Elites: Coalescence and Competition -- 7. Elite Political Culture: Cooperation and Confrontation -- 8. Conditions Conducive to Cooperative Elite Behaviour -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix A The National Election Study and the Northern Ireland Loyalty Survey -- Appendix B Occupational Stratification in New Brunswick and Northern Ireland. 330 $aPolitical scientists have often assumed that communities severely divided by cleavages such as religion and ethnicity will also be unstable. The civil strife experienced by Northern Ireland seems to confirm this assumption. Yet other communities, no less divided than Northern Ireland, have maintained political stability in spite of serious tensions created by religious and ethnic differences. The Canadian province of New Brunswick is an example of such a community. In Search of Political Stability offers a detailed comparison of society and politics in New Brunswick and Northern Ireland. It reveals the fragmented nature of the two communities by comparing the distinctive cultures and separate social institutions of the major blocs, whether English or French, Protestant or Catholic. It documents the contrasting experiences of stability and instability by assessing the durability of each community's political institutions, the legitimacy and efficacy of their governments, and the prevalence or absence of civil strife. The search for the causes of stability and instability focuses on the nature of the social conflicts and the behaviour of the political elites. In New Brunswick major conflicts have cut across the division between the English and French blocs. In Northern Ireland conflicts have tended to reinforce the division between the Protestant and Catholic blocs. The effects of these differing patterns are consistent with the theory of crosscutting cleavages. An examination of the elite political cultures, including such specific elements as campaign strategies, cabinet formation, and civil service composition, shows a pattern of elite cooperation in New Brunswick and elite confrontation in Northern Ireland. These results are broadly consistent with Lijphart's theory of consociational democracy, although significant revisions are made to this theory. 606 $aPolitical stability$zNew Brunswick$xHistory 606 $aPolitical stability$zNorthern Ireland$xHistory 607 $aNew Brunswick$xPolitics and government 607 $aNorthern Ireland$xPolitics and government 615 0$aPolitical stability$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitical stability$xHistory. 676 $a306/.2 700 $aAunger$b Edmund A$01678765 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824965503321 996 $aIn search of political stability$94046603 997 $aUNINA