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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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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 ...
Aurian De Briey, Laurent De Briey
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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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Constitutional – Legal Engineering of the Model of Democracy in North Macedonia [PDF]
Studia Europejskie, 2021 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
STED Journal, 2022 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
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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African Journal of Political Science, 2022 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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