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Possibilities of referenda in the systems of consociational democracy [PDF]
Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u BeograduThe paper analyzes the possibilities of referenda in consociational democracies. According to Arend Lijphart, democratic systems can be divided into majoritarian and consociational.
Cvetković Aleksandar
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Democracy, ethnoicracy and consociational demoicracy [PDF]
International Political Science Review, 2019 This article questions the notion of ‘consociational democracy’. It argues that it rests on shaky ground, empirically and conceptually. As an empirical matter, a consociation is inherently unstable because it tends either to collapse into ethnoicracy (where the power is shared by the main ethnic groups so that citizens who do not belong to them are ...
Stojanovic, Nenad
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Collective Violence [PDF]
Aggressive Behavior, Volume 52, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Although collective violence remains a pervasive issue affecting many societies today, the specific psychological mechanisms underlying individual differences in support for collective violence are relatively understudied. In four studies, using five samples from Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey (total N = 3758), we conceptualize and develop a new ...
Ramzi Abou‐Ismail +5 more
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ETHNIC NATIONALISM AND CONSOCIATIONAL DEMOCRACY IN CYPRUS
Beykent Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2016 The 1960 Cyprus Republic, which had a bi-communal power-sharing system, could not have lasted for long and it turned from consociational democracy to majoritarian in 1963 after ethnic conflict. Attempts to find a solution to Cyprus problem still focus on ethnic power-sharing but the conditions and bi-communal relations prior to 1960 system, which are ...
Erkem, Pinar
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The Netherlands: still a consociational democracy? [PDF]
, 1996 After a short introduction on the genesis and development of the general consociational democracy model, the paper discusses: 1. the extent to which the Netherlands did embody the consociational democracy model as developed by Arend Lijphart at the end of the 1960s; 2.
Daalder, Hans
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The Consolidation of the Consociational Democracy in Lebanon: The Challenges to Democracy in Lebanon
, 2000 This dissertation looks at democracy in Lebanon, a country that has a pluralistic society with many societal cleavages. The subject of this study is the consolidation of democracy in Lebanon, described by Arend Lijphart as a "consociational democracy". The research question and sub-question posed are: 1- How consolidated is democracy in Lebanon?
Ghattas, Micheline Germanos
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Consociational Democracy and Christian Democracy
, 2022 U radu se objašnjavaju poveznice konsocijacijske demokracije i demokršćanstva koje postoje na teorijskoj i praktičnoj razini. U prvom poglavlju rada prikazana su načela i praksa konsocijacijske demokracije.
Žižić, Jakov
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Anali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva, 2021 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
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2022 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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Which type of democracy performs best? [PDF]
, 2012 Which type of democracy performs best? While some scholars argue that an electoral system with proportional representation combined with a decentralized system works best, and that the type of electoral system is crucial (Lijphart 1999), others state ...
Pellikaan, Huib +3 more
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