Abstract
Aaron Edwards questions the ‘ethnic conflict’ model of Northern Irish politics using the Northern Ireland Labour party (NILP) and Progressive Unionist party (PUP) to demonstrate both the existence of cross-community politics in Northern Ireland, and class politics within the unionist community. However, understood in context, this history is actually in accord with what the ‘ethnic conflict’ model would predict. The key lies in the contemporary relative strength and weakness of political unionism and nationalism. The weakness of political nationalism allowed second-order politics safely to emerge within the unionist community and presented nationalists in many constituencies with the choice of voting NILP as the only alternative to the Unionist party.
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