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Diversité légitime et illégitime – la Suisse et ses minorités

Droit et Cultures, 2019
Switzerland has made linguistic diversity one of the pillars of its national unity. More than being «united in diversity», the country is united by the promotion of its differences.
Sabine Choquet
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Making Representative Politics Work: Cross‐Segmental Parties in Consociations

Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 5-24, March 2024.
Abstract Cross‐segmental parties are outliers in consociations dominated by ethnic parties. While they often receive comparatively limited electoral support, they have the ability to make representative politics work. Cross‐segmental parties can successfully represent cross‐communal interests and encourage governments to focus on non‐segmental issues ...
Timofey Agarin, Henry Jarrett
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Intra-Group Competition and Inter-Group Conflict: An Application to Northern Ireland [PDF]

This paper reviews four economic theories of leadership selection in conflictual settings. The first of these by Cukierman and Tomassi (1998) labeled the ‘information rationale’, argues that hawks may actually be necessary to initiate peace agreements ...
Colin Jnnings
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The Challenge of Peace Building and Conflict Transformation: A Case Study of Northern Ireland [PDF]

, 2016
This paper provides an overview of the transition from armed conflict to peace in Northern Ireland between 1994 and 2016. It discusses the main stages of the peace process and the main elements of the peace Agreement in relation to the development of ...
Jarman, Neil
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Vetoes, deadlock and deliberative umpiring: Toward a proportionality doctrine for power-sharing constitutions

Global Constitutionalism
This article addresses power-sharing constitutions that include powers of veto wielded by discrete ethnonational groups. Such constitutional arrangements – seen, for example, in Northern Ireland and Bosnia – have often prompted severe deadlock, a problem
Ron Levy, Ian O’Flynn
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Calvinist Metaphysics to Republican Theory: Jonathan Edwards and James Dana on Freedom of the Will

, 1995
The Reverend Mr. James Dana, the pastor of the First Church in Wallingford, Connecticut, had never before attempted to pick a quarrel with his old friend and ally, Ezra Stiles, the president of Yale College.
Guelzo, Allen C.
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What is Power Sharing? Consociationalism, Centripetalism, and Hybrid Power Sharing [PDF]

, 2018
In this article, the author analyzes the term "power-sharing" in the context of power exercised within a state. He first examines the term in the very general sense, in which it can be applied to all types and dimensions of sharing of power between ...
Trzcinski, Krzysztof
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Guise Theory Revisited

Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2013
Castañeda’s guise theory is a peculiarly interesting Neo-Meinongian approach, in virtue of its bundle-theoretic and anti-representationalist features. But it also has some problematic aspects.
Francesco Orilia
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Political leadership, conflict, and the prospects for constitutional peace [PDF]

The emphasis on constitutional political economy has been that new rules and institutions can be devised that improve the welfare of a society. Given the number of societies that are infected with political conflict and, as a result, lower levels of ...
Jennings, Colin
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Forest Succession in the Valparaiso and Packerton Moraines in Indiana [PDF]

, 1951
Indiana has experienced many climatic changes due primarily to its geographical location which brought it in contact with climates which find expression in boreal, grassland, and the southern deciduous forest vegetations. Many of the vegetational changes
Oliver, John L.
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