Abstract
ABSTRACTIt has been argued that the Irish party system can best be accounted for in terms of the “Lipset–Rokkan centre–periphery concept”. This paper questions this view and presents evidence to the contrary. Cleavages in the Irish social structure were not frozen into the party system that emerged in the post‐independence period. In terms of the widely accepted typologies of Western European political development Ireland constitutes a deviant case. As such it deserves more attention.
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