The European Union and Bosnia and Herzegovina: A contribution to the study of politics in plural societies [PDF]
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]
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]
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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Constitutional – Legal Engineering of the Model of Democracy in North Macedonia [PDF]
This thesis is a critical analysis of the constitutional and legal order of the Republic of North Macedonia, following the chronological process dating from the gaining of the county’s independence, through the armed confl ict in 2001 that brought ...
Driton Kuqi
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AUSTRIA AND BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN CONSOCIATIONAL THEORY AND PRACTICE
The subject of this paper is models of consociational democracy in Austria and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The aim is to define in a comparative analysis the similarities and differences between consociational systems of government in these two countries ...
Vlade Simović, Ivan Ilić
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Consociational democracy, citizenship and the role of the EU in Kosovo’s contested state-building
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
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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South Sudan has not escaped the world’s attention even after the signing of the infamous Revitalized Peace Agreement in September 2018 that for the 12th time brought the two antagonists –Kiir and Dr.
Israel Nyaburi Nyadera +1 more
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The author argues there is no such thing as a "normal democracy", and that the decision made by the European Court of Human Rights in Sejdić-Finci case does not pay enough respect to consociational democracy as one of the legitimate forms of democracy ...
Brendan O'Leary
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Democracy in Northern Ireland Since the Good Friday Agreement: A Post-Brexit Reappraisal
The aim of this paper is to identify and analyse the reasons why the Brexit referendum and its results have led to a profound and lasting destabilisation of post-Good Friday Agreement Northern Irish democracy.
Philippe Cauvet
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