Background
Arthur Aughey was born on September 19, 1953, in Banbridge, United Kingdom.
2012
Arthur Aughey
Arthur Aughey
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The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a unique perspective on those debates. Not only does the book provide readers with ready access to and interpretation of the significant literature on the English Question, but it also enables them to make sense of the political, historical, and cultural factors which constitute that question. The book addresses the condition of England in three interrelated parts. The first looks at traditional narratives of the English polity and reads them as variations of a legend of political Englishness, of England as the exemplary exception, exceptional in its constitutional tradition and exemplary in its political stability. The second considers how the decay of that legend has encouraged anxieties about English political identity and about how English identity can be recognized within the new complexity of British governance. The third revisits these narratives and anxieties, examining them in terms of actual and metaphorical "locations" of Englishness: the regional, the European, and the British.
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2005
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In this book, one of the leading authorities on contemporary Northern Ireland politics provides an original, sophisticated and innovative examination of the post-Belfast agreement political landscape. Written in a fluid, witty and accessible style, this book explores: how the Belfast Agreement has changed the politics of Northern Ireland whether the peace process is still valid the problems caused by the language of politics in Northern Ireland the conditions necessary to secure political stability the inability of unionists and republicans to share the same political discourse the insights that political theory can offer to Northern Irish politics the future of key political parties and institutions.
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2005
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There is a sustained interest amongst students of British politics, as well as an informed public, about the future state of the United Kingdom. The issue at stake is whether the UK’s multinational institutions can endure the challenge of political nationalism, especially in Scotland. This has become known as the British Question. This book is designed as both a framework text - setting out concepts by which to understand the British Question - and a synthetic text - providing a digest of significant academic work on historical, conceptual, and political matters relevant to that question. The value of the book is its unique focus on the character, resources, and function of the United Kingdom as a whole.
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2013
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This book re-examines the claim of the Conservative Party to be the "national party" and in its politics to express the enduring "national interest." It explores the historical character of the Conservative Party, in particular the significance of the nation in its self-understanding. It addresses the political culture of the modern party, one which proclaims a Unionist vocation but rests mainly on English support, and considers how the Englishness of the party is reconciled with the politics of British statecraft. It considers the constitutional challenges which the Conservative Party faces in managing a changing Union, in negotiating a changing Europe, and in defining a changing national interest.
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2018
Arthur Aughey was born on September 19, 1953, in Banbridge, United Kingdom.
Arthur Aughey serves as an Emeritus Professor of Politics at Ulster University. His academic areas of expertise include Irish - especially Northern Irish - politics and British conservative thought.
Aughey began his writing career in 1978. He is the author of "Conservative Party Attitudes toward the Common Market" (1978), "Under Siege: Ulster Unionism and the Anglo-Irish Agreement" (1989), "Nationalism Devolution and the Challenge to the United Kingdom State" (2001), "The Politics of Englishness" (2007), and "The British Question" (2013). In 2017, he co-authored with Cathy Gormley-Heenan "Northern Ireland and Brexit: Three effects on "the border in the mind." Moreover, Aughey contributes to journals.
Aughey has written extensively about unionism, the political movement supporting Northern Ireland's role as a part of the United Kingdom - as opposed to nationalists or republicans, who would prefer to see it join with the Republic of Ireland - and his work takes a unionist point of view. Another focus of his writing is the United Kingdom's relinquishment of power to its member nations.
(In this book, one of the leading authorities on contempor...)
2005(This book re-examines the claim of the Conservative Party...)
2018(There is a sustained interest amongst students of British...)
2013(The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the deba...)
2005Arthur Aughey supports unionism, the political movement supporting Northern Ireland's role as a part of the United Kingdom.
"Under Siege: Ulster Unionism and the Anglo-Irish Agreement" sets forth Aughey's objections to this pact from a unionist perspective and lays out his vision for Northern Ireland and the unionist movement. The Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 - eventually superseded by the Good Friday accord of 1998, which provided for power-sharing between Northern Ireland's Catholics and Protestants - set up an intergovernmental body with representatives from both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, giving the republic a consulting role in Northern Ireland's affairs. Proponents of the agreement believed it would assist in the effort to end the sectarian violence that had plagued Northern Ireland for many years, but many unionists saw it as a capitulation to nationalist forces.
"Aughey minces no words in his denunciation of the agreement," reported Charles Townshend in American Political Science Review, "but he believes that it can be destroyed by progressive rather than atavistic unionist principles." Some unionists, noted Roy Wallis in Ethnic and Racial Studies, have been "notoriously more committed to preserving a Protestant state for a Protestant people than to ensuring justice and equal citizenship, but Aughey is not among them. He calls for "full integration with the rest of the UK," Wallis related. With this, according to Wallis, Aughey believes that "Protestants will be assured of the permanence of the Union" and Catholics will be guaranteed the full rights of citizenship afforded by a pluralist democracy. Townshend remarked that the concept of full integration is often dismissed as the unionist equivalent of Republican impossibilism. Wallis pointed, out, though, that "there is a pervasive logic to Aughey's argument once one accepts his premise... that the modern state does not depend upon nationality or any other substantive identity, but rather upon a conception of citizenship grounded in universals of right or the rule of law, and that the United Kingdom is such a modern state." Wallis remained unconvinced that full integration will quell the political tensions between Northern Ireland's Protestants and Catholics but believed Aughey's "defense of the principle of integration is one of the most intelligently argued documents to emanate from unionism. It demolishes prevailing pretensions, situates itself within a tradition of sophisticated and liberal unionist thought well worth rehabilitating, and provides an insightful application of political theory to partisan political argument."
"Nationalism, Devolution, and the Challenge to the United Kingdom State" looks at the effects of the United Kingdom's move in the late 1990s to shift political decision-making concerning regional matters from the central government to bodies in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Some political thinkers feared that such devolution would mean the breakup of the United Kingdom. Aughey makes the case that these fears are exaggerated and "wildly premature," remarked Times Literary Supplement reviewer Vernon Bogdanor, who deemed the book "level-headed," offering "an admirable and fair-minded account of the future of the United Kingdom under strain from developments in Europe and the Celtic periphery."