After almost two years of stalemate and political wrangling, Northern Ireland’s power-sharing governance system is back up and running. But the latest boycott that paralyzed the government was just the latest in a long line of disputes that has seen Northern Ireland’s dysfunctional legislative body shuttered for long periods.
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As the U.K.’s Conservative Party hurtles toward an extinction-level event in elections later this year, some observers have pointed to Canada’s elections in 1993 as a fitting precedent for the total collapse of a once-dominant conservative party. Yet for all the similarities, the differences between the two cases are also revealing.