Author: Prager, Jeffrey
Title: Building Democracy in Ireland. Political Order & Cultural Integration in a Newly Independent Nation
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1986). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xi, 259 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Democracy in Ireland: Theoretical & Empirical Problems: Theoretical Considerations in the Study of Political Stability in New Nations; Irish Cultural Schisms & the Meaning of Political Disorder; The Free State Constitution & the Institutionalization of Value Strains; Patterns of Crisis Resolution in the Irish Free State, 1922 - 1932: The Army Mutiny & Normative Political Challenges; The Boundary Commission Crisis & the Development of Strategies of Political Efficacy; The Limits of Effective Rule: The Assassination of Kevin O'Higgins & Its Aftermath; The Character of Irish Democracy: The Democratic Achievement in Ireland: The Reconciliation of Culture & Politics; The Uniqueness of Irish Democracy.

Keywords: Political Sociology, Ireland, Irish Free State, Newly Independent, New Nations, Constitutional, History, Democracy,