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Consociational Democracy for Rwanda?
2005How can (deeply) divided societies be politically organized in such a way as to foster a stable and democratic power-sharing? This is the lead question that political scientists have been trying to answer in the late 1960s, when the first scientific comparative analyses of consociational systems were published.1 Deeply divided societies — or, in the ...
Vandeginste, Stef, Huyse, L.
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Classical Consociational Theory and Recent Consociational Performance
Swiss Political Science Review, 2019AbstractLijphart’s classical consociational theory, developed between the 1960s and 1975, was based largely on the experience of four western European cases. He argued that the success of consociations depended on the preparedness and ability of elites to cooperate, and that the prospects for success were facilitated by the presence of certain ...
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2013
Consociations are power-sharing arrangements, increasingly used to manage ethno-nationalist, ethno-linguistic, and ethno-religious conflicts. Current examples include Belgium, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Burundi, and Iraq. Despite their growing popularity, they have begun to be challenged before human rights courts as being incompatible with human rights
McCrudden, Christopher, O'Leary, Brendan
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Consociations are power-sharing arrangements, increasingly used to manage ethno-nationalist, ethno-linguistic, and ethno-religious conflicts. Current examples include Belgium, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Burundi, and Iraq. Despite their growing popularity, they have begun to be challenged before human rights courts as being incompatible with human rights
McCrudden, Christopher, O'Leary, Brendan
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2014
The literature on political power sharing of socio-cultural groups is dominated by the well-known model of consociational democracy, characterized by cooperation between the leaders of segmental parties representing specific constituencies, usually minorities (Lijphart, 1977).
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The literature on political power sharing of socio-cultural groups is dominated by the well-known model of consociational democracy, characterized by cooperation between the leaders of segmental parties representing specific constituencies, usually minorities (Lijphart, 1977).
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CONSOCIATIONAL DEMOCRACY AND CANADIAN FEDERALISM
Canadian Journal of Political Science, 1971It is only natural that Canada should most frequently be compared with the United States, and that models, metaphors, and theories of the political system that are applicable to the one should be assumed to be applicable to the other. That there are certain close similarities is obvious: both are federations, both span the North American continent ...
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Federalism and Consociational Regimes
CrossRef Listing of Deleted DOIs, 1985Federalism and consociationalism are useful means of understanding political systems. Federalism and consociationalism are both based on compound majoritarianism rather than simple majoritarianism, and both represent modern attempts to accommodate democratic complexity and pluralism, but the two systems are not quite symmetrical, and territorial ...
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Consociation for Israel-Palestine
Peace Review, 2020Palestinians do not have much. Even the 22% of the land of historic Palestine that was set aside for Palestinians after Nakba, or the Israeli War of Independence, is under military occupation.
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This work focuses on constitutional amendments in divided societies. It analyzes and compares the ways in which constitutional amendment procedures are organized in states with significant linguistic, national or cultural cleavages. To explore this issue, we mobilize the theoretical framework of consociational federalism.
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The Consociational Democracy Theme
World Politics, 1974The books that are the subject of this review share three important characteristics.1. They deal exclusively, or at least predominantly, with the political experiences of some smaller European countries which have traditionally been terra incognita on the map of comparative politics. Most writing in the field of comparative politics has centered eidier
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Non-democratic Consociational Parties
2014The very existence of consociational parties in non-democracies may be doubted due to the powerful constraints that the authoritarian regime logic of power concentration puts on representation and accommodation. Brooker (2000) mentions Kenya as an example of a “party dictatorship”.
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