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Intra-Group Competition and Inter-Group Conflict: An Application to Northern Ireland [PDF]

open access: yes
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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Time to invite the ‘others’ to the table: a proposal to make South Tyrol more inclusive [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
South Tyrol, an autonomous and predominantly German-speaking province in northern Italy, is regarded as one of the most successful cases of ‘consociational’ democracy – a political system in which people deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, or other ...
Larin, Stephen J., Röggla, Marc
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Karen Nationalist Communities: The 'Problem' of Diversity

open access: yes, 2007
This essay describes how, since the colonial period, different actors in and from Burma (Myanmar) have mobilized political support around sometimes competing notions of Karen ethno-nationalism.
South, Ashley
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Співсуспільна демократія А. Лійпгарта: ключові особливості та інституціональні механізми [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Стаття присвячена теорії співсуспільної демократії А.Лійпгарта, її основним характеристикам та елементам. А.Лійпгарт протиставляє мажоритарній моделі демократії співсуспільну, й визначає, які з інститутів демократії є найбільш сприятливими для ...
Мовчан, У.І.
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Managing ethnicity and constructing the 'Bangsa Malaysia' (A United Malaysian Nation) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The question of nation-building has always been a central issue in Malaysian politics. Whilst the country has been able to sustain stable politics since the 1969 racial tragedy, spawning two decades rapid socio-economic development until the 1997 Asian ...
Ishak, Mohamed Mustafa
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Formación de gobierno, democracia consensual y polarización de las elites: el caso vasco Formación de gobierno, democracia consensual y polarización de las elites: el caso vasco

open access: yesPolítica y Sociedad, 2003
Does the democracy consensus-model survive in the Basque country? Taking as a base of the consociational democracy and its features, we wonder about the problems which arise in the constitution of the governments of this type of democracies, when the ...
Consuelo Laiz Castro
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Moderating Politics in Post-Conflict States: An Examination of Bosnia and Herzegovina

open access: yes, 2005
The individuals who negotiated the peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina considered ethnicity to be the most salient division within Bosnian society.
Banks, Angela M.
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A Field Study of Consociationalism in the Northern Ireland Assembly: A Moderating Influence or Threat to Democracy? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper is the outcome of a month-long exploratory study on whether consociationalism has a moderating influence on politics in Northern Ireland. I analyzed the impact of consociationalism on policymaking, party platforms and voter choice to determine
Noble, Ellen
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