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Consociational democracy, citizenship and the role of the EU in Kosovo’s contested state-building
Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, 2021 Consociational democracy has increasingly been adopted as a useful approach for conflict transformation in ethnic and violently divided societies. Its ultimate purpose is to turn former rivals into governing allies by providing power-sharing arrangements.
Bekim Baliqi
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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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Democracy, ethnoicracy and consociational demoicracy [PDF]
International Political Science Review, 2019 This article questions the notion of ‘consociational democracy’. It argues that it rests on shaky ground, empirically and conceptually. As an empirical matter, a consociation is inherently unstable because it tends either to collapse into ethnoicracy (where the power is shared by the main ethnic groups so that citizens who do not belong to them are ...
N. Stojanović
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Lebanon: An Ordinary “Consociational Democracy” in the Regional Context
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2019 Lebanon has a number of features that determine its special position in the region and its importance in the system of relations between the Middle East states.
A. V. Sarabiev
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Centripetalism in Consociational Democracy: The Multiple Proportional Vote and the Belgian Case
Swiss Political Science ReviewAbstractBelgium 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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Does Democracy Matter in Consociational Systems?
Southeastern EuropeAbstract 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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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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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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The Impact of Consociational Democracy in Iraqi Kurdistan on Iranian Kurdish Anti-Revolution Parties [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat, 2023 IntroductionIranian Kurdish anti-Revolution parties have been a source of insecurity in western Iran, undergoing significant changes in their movement over time.
Majid Mohammadi +3 more
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Crisis, Opportunities, and Consociational Federalism: Reassessing Lijphart’s Work After Half a Century of Consociationalism [PDF]
Revista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals, 2021 Half a century ago, Dutch political scientist Arend Lijphart crafted the concept of consociational democracy (or consociationalism). His theory first aimed at explaining how divided societies could be politically stable, but was then used as a normative ...
Dave Guénette
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