Bulletin n. 3/2006
December 2006
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Jenkins Richard
    When Politics and Social Theory Converge: Group Identification and Group Rights in Northern Ireland
    in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics , Volume 12, Number 3-4, Autumn-Winter 2006 ,  2006 ,  389-410
    How we conceptualize ethno-national groups is fundamental to understanding changing ethno-national identification and to political debates about identity-based collective rights. This article examines these issues in Northern Ireland, in the context of the Bill of Rights proposed by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Rejecting Brubaker's arguments that ethno-national groups are not “real,” this article argues that what matters in Northern Ireland is not to weaken ethnic groups and their boundaries, but to change the meaning of identification.
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