Conflict and Consensus: A Study of Values and Attitudes in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (European Values Studies)

Contents
......Page 6
Notes on Authors......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 11
List of Figures......Page 14
1 Introduction......Page 16
Introduction......Page 21
Political culture and political cleavage......Page 22
The dominance of the centre-periphery cleavage......Page 25
Implications for other cleavages......Page 27
Change and the expected shape of contemporary cleavages......Page 28
Value cleavages North and South: the evidence......Page 32
Conclusion......Page 42
Background......Page 45
Objectives......Page 49
Religious identification and church membership......Page 50
Decline in religious practice......Page 54
Public attitudes toward the church: a growing disillusionment......Page 62
The privatisation of religion: believing without belonging......Page 64
Pioneers of secularisation......Page 67
Conclusion......Page 69
Introduction......Page 72
Religious identification and national identity......Page 75
Trends in identity in Northern Ireland......Page 77
Importance of identity in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland......Page 79
Socio-demographic correlates of national identity in Northern Ireland......Page 81
National identities in Ireland: ethnic or civic?......Page 83
Citizenship......Page 87
Political identity in Northern Ireland......Page 90
Overlap in religious, national and political identity......Page 93
Conclusion......Page 97
Introduction......Page 102
Objectives......Page 103
Constitutional preferences......Page 104
Socio-demographic characteristics, identity and constitutional preferences in Northern Ireland......Page 109
The road to compromise: support for the Good Friday Agreement......Page 112
Trends in support for the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland......Page 115
Explanations for increasing Protestant disillusionment with the Agreement......Page 117
Conclusion......Page 124
Introduction......Page 129
The importance of family, marriage and joint parenthood......Page 133
Homosexuality and abortion......Page 136
The impact of age and education......Page 141
The impact of secularisation......Page 144
A common consensus?......Page 147
Is Ireland different?......Page 148
Conclusion......Page 152
Introduction......Page 155
The left-right divide......Page 156
New politics?......Page 165
Gender roles......Page 167
Is Ireland postmaterialist?......Page 170
Conclusion......Page 175
Introduction......Page 177
Work......Page 178
Measurement of subjective well-being......Page 182
Trends in subjective well-being in Ireland......Page 185
Religion, religious denominations and subjective well-being......Page 188
Social correlates of subjective well-being......Page 190
Social capital......Page 192
Trust......Page 194
Participation in voluntary organisations......Page 196
Conclusion......Page 198
Introduction......Page 200
The structure of confidence in political institutions......Page 202
Trends in confidence in institutions......Page 207
Evaluations of democracy and of the system of government......Page 210
Orientations to political action and political participation......Page 215
A multivariate analysis of political engagement......Page 228
Conclusion......Page 230
10 Conclusion......Page 233
Appendix 1: Data sources......Page 249
Appendix 2: European Values Study 1999-2000......Page 252
References......Page 285
Index......Page 298