This is an indispensable guide to attitudes to current social and political issues in Northern Ireland. Based on extensive data gathered in the annual Northern Ireland Life and Times survey, it features a series of essays by leading academics that discuss and comment on a wide range of public attitudes to religion, politics and social policy issues. These include devolution and the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement; community relations; attitudes to science and genetic information; education; housing; pensions; transport; social inequality and the rights of the child. This is the eighth volume in this series and is based on data from the 1998 and 1999 surveys, as well as drawing on material from previous years.
Introduction Ann Marie Gray, Katrina Lloyd, Paula Devine, Gillian
Robinson And Deirdre Heenan
1. More Knowing Than Knowledgeable: Attitudes
Towards Devolution Roger Macginty And Rick Wilford
2. Are There Any
Christians In Northern Ireland? John D Brewer
3. Ten Years Of Social
Attitudes To Community Relations In Northern Ireland Joanne Hughes And
Caitlin Donnelly
4. Science In Our Lives Bernie Hannigan
5. Trusting People
With Genetic Information Owen Barr And Kate Thompson
6. On The Move:
Attitudes To Transport In Northern Ireland
Gillian Robinson is Director of the ARK (Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive) and Senior Lecturer in Policy Studies at the University of Ulster. Ann Marie Gray is a Lecturer at the School of Policy Studies, University of Ulster. Katrina Lloyd is a Senior Social Survey Officer at the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research, Queen's University Belfast. Paula Devine is a Senior Social Survey Officer at the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research, Queen's University Belfast. Deirdre Heenan is a Lecturer at the School of Policy Studies, University of Ulster.
