Control
by Brendan O'Leary
Recommended by Tyler Cowen
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books.
This landmark synthesis of political science and historical institutionalism is a detailed study of antagonistic ethnic majoritarianism.Northern Ireland was coercively created through a contested partition in 1920. Subsequently Great Britain compelled Sinn Fein's leaders to rescind the declaration of an Irish Republic, remain within the British Emp...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books.
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Tyler Cowen
“This threevolume set is quite the remarkable achievement, and it would have made my best books of 2019 list (addons here) had I known about it earlier. It starts with “An audit of violence after 1966,” and then goes back to the seventeenth century to begin to dig out what happened. It has more detail than almost anyone needs to know, yet at the same time it remains unfailingly conceptual and relies on theoretical social science as well, rather than merely reciting names and dates. Unlike in so many history books, O’Leary is always trying to explain what happened, or what did not.”
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