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Consociational Democracy for Rwanda?

2005
How can (deeply) divided societies be politically organized in such a way as to foster a stable and democratic power-sharing? This is the lead question that political scientists have been trying to answer in the late 1960s, when the first scientific comparative analyses of consociational systems were published.1 Deeply divided societies — or, in the ...
Vandeginste, Stef, Huyse, L.
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An Analysis of Consociational Democracy

Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1978
This is a formal analytical assessment of Arend Lijphart's argument in The Politics of Accommodation that the structure of politics found in the Netherlands results in accommodation among elites and in democratic stability. The analysis leads to the conclusion that accommodation and stability will result only under certain specific conditions; one of ...
G. R. Boynton, W. H. Kwon
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CONSOCIATIONAL DEMOCRACY

World Politics, 1969
In Gabriel A. Almond's famous typology of political systems, first expounded in 1956, he distinguishes three types of Western democratic systems: Anglo-American political systems (exemplified by Britain and the United States), Continental European political systems (France, Germany, and Italy), and a third category consisting of the Scandinavian and ...
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CONSOCIATIONAL DEMOCRACY AND CANADIAN FEDERALISM

Canadian Journal of Political Science, 1971
It is only natural that Canada should most frequently be compared with the United States, and that models, metaphors, and theories of the political system that are applicable to the one should be assumed to be applicable to the other. That there are certain close similarities is obvious: both are federations, both span the North American continent ...
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The Consociational Democracy Theme

World Politics, 1974
The books that are the subject of this review share three important characteristics.1. They deal exclusively, or at least predominantly, with the political experiences of some smaller European countries which have traditionally been terra incognita on the map of comparative politics. Most writing in the field of comparative politics has centered eidier
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South African democracy: Majoritarian or consociational?

Democratization, 1998
(1998). South African democracy: Majoritarian or consociational? Democratization: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 144-150.
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