NUR Home
→
01.NU Schools
→
Graduate School of Public Policy
→
Browsing Graduate School of Public Policy by Subject

Browsing Graduate School of Public Policy by Subject "Northern Ireland"

Now showing items 1-20 of 29

Access and Performance Inequalities – post-primary education in Northern Ireland

Borooah, Vani; Knox, Colin (Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 2014)

Northern Ireland's schools system is undergoing a radical review. The first stage in this process is to reform the post-primary sector in response to the Education Minister's call to 'put pupils first' and raise the overall ...
‘An Acceptable Level of Violence’ Community Response to Crime: Northern Ireland and South Africa

Knox, Colin; Monaghan, Rachel (The Journal of Conflict Studies, 2001)

This paper, drawing on focus group interview material, will therefore examine ways in which the communities in Northern Ireland and South Africa have responded to crime both during the conflict and thereafter. If the raison ...
Bureau Shuffling? The Review of Public Administration in Northern Ireland

Knox, Colin; Carmichael, Paul (Public Administration, 2006)

The Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement 1998 resulted in the return of devolved government to Northern Ireland and, with it, a decision by the Executive and Assembly to conduct a radical review of public administration. As the ...
Cohesion, sharing, and integration in Northern Ireland

Knox, Colin (Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2011)

The devolved government in Northern Ireland pledged to work for a `shared and better future for all' in its Programme for Government 2008 ^ 11. In pursuit of this goal it launched a consultation document entitled Programme ...
Community planning in Northern Ireland: Participative Democracy in Practice?

Knox, Colin (2005-01)

Local Government in Northern Ireland entered a new phase of its development in April 2015 when 26 pre-existing councils were reduced to 11 local authorities with a range of additional functions. This structural change is ...
Democratic Renewal in Fragmental Communities: The Northern Ireland Case

Knox, Colin (Local Governance, 2003)

Northern Ireland is perhaps the locus extremis of fragmental communities in the United Kingdom. The ethno-national tensions and political violence that have ravaged the Province for over 30 years continue unabated at a ...
Devolution and Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland

Carmichael, Paul; Knox, Colin; Osborne, Bob (Manchester University Press, 2007)

This edited volume brings together researchers from the ESRC Devolution and Constitutional Change programme, whose projects examined Northern Ireland either exclusively or as part of a comparative project, and other ...
Devolution in Northern Ireland

Knox, Colin; Carmichael, Paul (Public Money and Management: Debate Piece, 2010)

Northern Ireland should not have received an invitation to the ‘10 years of devolution’ celebration party! Power was devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly and its Executive Committee of Ministers on Thursday 2nd December ...
Devolution - the Northern Ireland Way: An Exercise in 'Creative Ambiguity'

Knox, Colin; Carmichael, Paul (Environment and Planning Series C, 2005)

Devolution in Northern Ireland followed directly from the 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement which provided, inter alia, for a democratically elected Assembly ‘inclusive in its membership, capable of exercising executive ...
Establishing Research Legitimacy in the Contested Political Ground of Contemporary Northern Ireland

Knox, Colin (Qualitative Research, 2001)

Despite the plethora of literature on the macro politics of Northern Ireland, there is a dearth of material on grassroots activity, in particular the dynamic between communities and paramilitary groups which enforce ‘law ...
Fear of Reprisal – Researching Intra-Communal Violence in Northern Ireland and South Africa

Knox, Colin; Monaghan, Rachel (2003)

Measuring the impact of violence is fraught with problems, not least because of the definitional problems around what constitutes violence and how this might be quantified. If one considers violence perpetrated by ...
From the Margins to the Mainstream: Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland

Knox, Colin (Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, 2013)

Paramilitary organisations exerted a stranglehold on working class loyalist and republican communities in Northern Ireland during the conflict. In the absence of an effective and legitimate policing service, paramilitaries ...
Improving Public Services: Public Administration Reform in Northern Ireland

Knox, Colin; Carmichael, Paul (Journal of Social Policy, 2004)

The devolved government in Northern Ireland set about the task of putting in place ‘a modern and effective system of public administration that can deliver high quality public services to our citizens’. It did so through ...
Inequality, segregation and poor performance: the education system in Northern Ireland

Borooah, Vani K.; Knox, Colin (Educational Review, 2016)

Northern Ireland is now a post-conflict society but one of the legacies of the “troubles” is an education system which is defined by religious affiliation/identity. A parallel system of schools continues to exist where ...
‘Joined-Up’ Government: An integrated response to communal violence in Northern Ireland?

Knox, Colin (Policy and Politics, 2003)

The growing recognition that social problems are multi-faceted and need to be tackled in a way which cut-across traditional departmental boundaries has heralded the advent of joined-up government. Yet this new emphasis ...
Mayoralty in Northern Ireland: Symbolism or Substance?

Knox, Colin (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers, 2007)

This chapter attempts three tasks. First, it explores the context of the debate about the constitutional position and role of the chair/mayor in Northern Ireland local government since 1898, while emphasising the most ...
Northern Ireland: where is the peace dividend?

Knox, Colin (Policy and Politics, 2014)

Northern Ireland has been described as a ‘post conflict’ society with a stable political environment following the peace process, and yet it is a hugely segregated society with significant social deprivation. With peace ...
Partnership With Government: An Exit Strategy for Philanthropies?

Knox, Colin; Quirk, Padraic (The Foundation Review. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.9707/1944-5660.1348, 2017)

This article is a case study of Atlantic Philanthropies’ work in Northern Ireland, where it supported three thematic intervention areas: aging; children and young people; and reconciliation and human rights. Atlantic, a ...
Research within Evaluation: the case of Northern Ireland In K.Bush and C. Duggan (eds) Evaluation in the Extreme: Research Impact and Politics in Violently Divided Societies

Knox, Colin (2015)

This chapter looks at the evaluation of research within programme evaluation under four key headings:  The evaluation of research on the theory of change which provides the rationale for the programme.  An evaluation ...
‘See no evil, hear no evil’: Insidious Paramilitary Violence in Northern Ireland

Knox, Colin (British Journal of Criminology, 2002)

Northern Ireland has been variously described as having an ‘imperfect peace’ in which ‘acceptable levels of violence’ persist. Despite the endorsement of the main political parties to the principles of ‘democracy and ...