Brendan O'Leary is the Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and World Leading Researcher Visiting Professor of Political Science at Queen's University Belfast. He is the inaugural winner of the Juan Linz Prize of the International Political Science Association for lifetime contributions to the study of federalism, democratization, and multinational states, and was recently elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and to Membership of the US Council on Foreign Relations. Educated in Northern Ireland, Oxford, and the London School of Economics & Political Science he advised parties and governments during and after the making of the Good Friday Agreement. His extensive publications include Power-Sharing in Deeply Divided Places (co-editor, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), The Northern Ireland Conflict (OUP, 2004), and Explaining Northern Ireland (co-author, Blackwell, 1995).
* Volume 2: Control
* The Second Protestant Ascendancy and the Irish State
* List of Figures
* List of Maps
* List of Tables
* List of Boxes
* Abbreviations and Glossary
* Terminology
* 1: Conceptual Conspectus: Control
* 2: Not an Inch: Gaining Control in the North, 1919-1939
* 3: Digesting Decolonization: From Declared to Undeclared Republic,
1919-1940
* 4: The Unexpected Stabilization of Control: The Second World War and
its Aftermath, 1940-1957
* 5: Losing Control, 1958-1972
* 6: British Intervention: The Politics of Embarrassment, 1969-1972
* Acknowledgments
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index
