Resumen de Two Cheers for Consociational Democracy?: Reforming the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive

Rick Wilford

• This article discusses the attempts to reform the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive by the former's Assembly and Executive Review Committee. It situates the Committee's review of the Belfast Agreement's Strand One institutions within the context both of prior proposals to effect reform and the constraints, institutional and behavioural, created by Northern Ireland's model of consociational democracy.