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Consociational Democracy in Lebanon: Modern Challenges and Development Prospects

RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2021
This article explores some key problems of the organization and operation of the Lebanese confessional political system. The study is carried out within the framework of the comparative approach and, in essence, is a comparison of the Lebanese realities ...
Arseny A. Kerimov
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Consociational Democracy [PDF]

Annual Review of Political Science, 2000
Consociationalist theory served initially as an explanation of political stability in a few deeply divided European democracies. It argued that in these countries, the destabilizing effects of subcultural segmentation are neutralized at the elite level by embracing non-majoritarian mechanisms for conflict resolution.
Rudy B. Andeweg
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ETHNIC NATIONALISM AND CONSOCIATIONAL DEMOCRACY IN CYPRUS

Beykent Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2016
The 1960 Cyprus Republic, which had a bi-communal power-sharing system, could not have lasted for long and it turned from consociational democracy to majoritarian in 1963 after ethnic conflict. Attempts to find a solution to Cyprus problem still focus on ethnic power-sharing but the conditions and bi-communal relations prior to 1960 system, which are ...
Pınar Erkem
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Based on its constitutional and institutional set-up, could India be rightly conceived as a 'consociational' (power-sharing) democracy?

The South Asianist, 2014
A Consociational democracy is a model of governance that uses power sharing to cope with societal divisions. Lijphart (1996: 258) outlined four crucial, interdependent elements, which characterise consociationalism; “Grand Coalition” governments in which
Alastair Carr
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Consociational Democracy and Corporatism in Switzerland

Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 1993
The Swiss concept ofKonkordanzdemokratie (consociational democracy) is examined in this article. The author traces the development of this practicefrom its earliest origins to its current manifestation, focusing especially on the role that religion and linguistic differences have played. The influence of the emerging "political market" is also examined
Gerhard Lehmbruch
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Centripetalism in Consociational Democracy: The Multiple Proportional Vote and the Belgian Case [PDF]

Swiss Political Science Review
AbstractBelgium illustrates that using consociational institutions in divided societies may ensure a peaceful political environment, but it fails in reducing its centrifugal tendencies. As communitarian issues threaten to paralyse the political debate, preserving the efficiency of the state will require adding centripetal incentives to the ...
Laurent de Briey, Aurian de Briey
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Consociational democracy in post conflict societies [PDF]

Politea, 2012
Tekst se bavi istraživanjem uticaja koji institucije konsocijativne demokratije imaju na procese pacifikacije i demokratizacije u post-konfliktnim društvima. U uvodnom delu identifikuju se dva pristupa u izučavanju konsocijativne demokratije: prvi, koji konsocijativnu demokratiju preporučuje kao poželjan demokratski model za duboko podeljena društava i
Beljinac Nikola
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Multi-ethnic Malaysia. Consociational democracy vs. consociational authoritarianism

, 2023
Adam W. Jelonek
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Does Democracy Matter in Consociational Systems?

Southeastern Europe
Abstract Bosnia has one of the most complex consociational systems in the world, combining strict power-sharing at central institutions with a high degree of decentralization through a federal system, which gives most competences to the regional (entity) level.
Soeren Keil, John Hulsey
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The European Union and Bosnia and Herzegovina: A contribution to the study of politics in plural societies [PDF]

Srpska Politička Misao, 2023
The subject of research in this paper is plural societies, the mechanisms of their political-system formation and functioning - concretely comparative research of plurality and consociational organization of the European Union and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Simović Vlade, Budimir Željko
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