The Ulster Unionist Party : country before Party? /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; The Ulster Unionist Party: Country before Party?; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Authors; Introduction; The Aims of the Book; The Plan of the Book; Notes; 1: The UUP during the Troubles, 1969-1998; Reform, Reaction, and Retreat; The Molyneaux Years 1979-1995; David Trimble Becomes UUP Leader; Notes; 2: Country Before Party: The Long Good Friday; Trimble's Ambitions; Losing the Peace; Notes; 3: Electoral Politics: The Disorderly Management of Decline?; The UUP on the Slide: Elections and Defections; Uncomfortable UCUNF
- The Nesbitt Years: Rebranding and OppositionUUP-DUP Divergence: The 2016 EU Referendum; 2017: Double Electoral Reverse and a New Leader; Conclusion; Notes; 4: Who are the UUP Members-and What do they Believe?; The Demography and Geography of Membership; Membership Activism; A Devolutionist Not an Integrationist Party; The Peace Process, Security, and Dealing with the Past; A Right-Wing Party; Conclusion; Notes; 5: Safeguarding the Union: UUP Ideology and Discourse; Core Unionist Arguments; Cultural Unionism; Liberal Unionism; Civic Unionism; Conclusion; Notes
- 6: Britishness and Northern Irishness: Identity and the UUPBritishness and Unionism; Which Britishness? Which Union?; Northern Irish Identity and Unionism; Ulster Unionism and Irishness; Multiple Identities of Unionism; Unionism, History, and Memory; Conclusion; Notes; 7: Attitudes towards Other Parties; Attitudes to the DUP; Attitudes to Sinn Féin; Do UUP Members Vote across the Ethno-Sectarian Divide?; Conclusion; Notes; 8: Liberal and Secular or Protestant and Orange?: Religion and the UUP; A Broad (Protestant) Church? Religious Affiliations; How Orange is the UUP?; Social and Moral Issues
- ConclusionNotes; 9: Institutional Structures, Party Selection, and Spotty Tights: Women in the Ulster Unionist Party; The Historical Background to Women in the UUP; Gender Roles and the Northern Ireland Conflict; Gender in a 'New Northern Ireland'; Institutional Structures: Women's Descriptive Representation; The Impact of Candidate Selection Procedures; Female Representatives and Defending 'Women's Interests'; Conclusion: Who is Making the Tea?; Notes; Conclusion: The Future of the Ulster Unionist Party; Notes; List of Interviewees; List of Focus Groups; Author Index; Subject Index