A blog from the Northern Ireland Assembly Research and Information Service

Governance Blog Archive

Here you will find an archive of Governance Blog articles published before 1 May 2022, divided into their relevant categories.

Brexit

EU exit regulations and Northern Ireland

October 26, 2018

A high profile consequence of the continuing failure to establish an Executive and fully functioning Assembly was the legislative passage this week of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and…

Brexit and Northern Ireland: Reading List #13 – approaching the endgame?

October 1, 2018

Please note: This version of the Brexit and Northern Ireland reading list has now been superseded. For the very latest version, please see here. The Assembly’s Research and Information…

Brexit and Northern Ireland: A Reading List

March 7, 2018

Please note: This version of the Brexit and Northern Ireland reading list has now been superseded. For the very latest version, please see here. The Assembly’s Research and Information…

Democracy and Government

Women in public life: Where does Northern Ireland stand?

June 29, 2016

Please note that more up-to-date statistics on gender representation can be found in the RaISe research paper Who Runs Northern Ireland? A Summary of Statistics Relating to Gender and…

A new era for the Assembly and Executive

June 10, 2016

The 2016-21 mandate begins in the midst of significant institutional reform….

Could responsibility for Assembly elections be devolved?

May 18, 2016

On 5 May voters went to the polls to elect 108 Members to the Northern Ireland Assembly. Elections in Northern Ireland are an excepted matter, meaning the UK Parliament…

Justice

Planning

Statistics and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Fatal and serious road traffic collisions in Northern Ireland

November 16, 2016

It is difficult to grasp the full extent of what is portrayed by road traffic collision statistics. Each statistic represents a human being and, in the case of those…

An insight into Northern Ireland Constituency Profiles

July 4, 2016

Please note that the Constituency Profiles have been updated with a new layout and are available on a new page here. The Research and Information Service (RaISe) has just…

A demographic profile of Northern Ireland in 2016

April 29, 2016

Please note: we have posted a new version of this blog article using the most recent data, see here. This article presents a brief demographic profile of Northern Ireland,…