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Thematic Analysis of Crisis in Nigeria and Consociational Democracy

International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research and Studies
Nigeria is a creation of the British colonial rule, which amalgamated the Northern Protectorate, Southern Protectorate and the Colony of Lagos to form one entity.
Obiora Jude Uchenna   +2 more
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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 Political Engineering in Postwar Kosovo

Nationalities Papers, 2019
This article examines the consociational democracy installed in Kosovo after the war. Starting from the premise that the electoral system is considered one of the key instruments for the engineering of post-conflict societies with deep ethnic divisions ...
Adem Beha
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THE MODEL OF CONSOCIATIONAL DEMOCRACY, PRESENTED THROUGH THE EXAMPLE OF THE SWISS CONFEDERATION

Vision International Refereed Scientific Journal
In this paper, it is spoken about the model of consociational democracy and its practical application in plural societies which are heterogeneous, which have gone through internal conflicts and which often are characterized by a certain line of division ...
Daniela Bochvarska
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Minority Over-representation through Seat-cap Imposition and Regressive Representation: Self-determination Versus Pre-determination in Consociational Democracy

International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 2019
This article explores ways to realize minority over-representation through elections without pre-determination, and presents new options in designing electoral systems for consociational democracy.
M. Kimura
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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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Consociational Democracy and Corporatism in Switzerland

Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 1993
The Swiss concept ofKonkordanzdemokratie (consociational democracy) is examined in this article. The author traces the development of this practicefrom its earliest origins to its current manifestation, focusing especially on the role that religion and linguistic differences have played. The influence of the emerging "political market" is also examined
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