Path Dependence in Settlement Processes: Explaining Settlement in Northern Ireland

Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd

Political Studies, 2007, vol. 55, issue 2, 442-458

Abstract: The recent literature on path dependence provides a model that can be used in explanation of ethnic conflict and settlement processes. Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article identifies path dependent patterns of conflict embedded in long‐term processes of political development whose change may interrupt these patterns. It highlights the importance of long‐term state trajectories in constituting and reproducing these patterns, the generation of ‘endogenous’ processes of change and the impact of wider geopolitical processes in strengthening these. It shows how and why factors such as power, perception, networks and institutions vary in their impact on conflict and explains when they work together to produce settlement.

Date: 2007
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