Journal
RESEARCH & POLITICS
Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/2053168020929927
Keywords
Borders; Northern Ireland; survey experiment; divided societies
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- University of Kent Faculty of Social Science Research Support Fund
- United States Institute for Peace [350 2261]
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Border arrangements are often critical to the successful negotiation of peace settlements and the broader politics of post-conflict societies. However, developing an understanding of popular preferences about these arrangements is difficult using traditional surveys. To address this problem, we used a conjoint survey experiment to assess preferences about post-Brexit border arrangements in Northern Ireland. We mapped areas of convergence and divergence in the preferences about post-Brexit border arrangements of unionist and nationalist communities, simulated the degree of public support for politically plausible outcomes and identified the border arrangements that both communities could agree upon. In so doing, we outlined an empirical approach to understanding public preferences about border arrangements that could be used to understand the degree of support for similar institutional arrangements in other divided societies.
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