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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 ...
Doorenspleet, Renske, Pellikaan, Huib
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Possibilities of referenda in the systems of consociational democracy [PDF]

Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu
The 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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Between Constitutional Nationalism and Human Rights - the Future of the Rule of Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina?

Društvene i Humanističke Studije, 2022
This paper analyzes the constitutional position of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) between constitutional nationalism and human rights. In its judgments in Sejdić and Finci v. BiH, and Zornić v. BiH, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that the
Benjamin Nurkić, Suad Murselović
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LEGACY OF THE TROUBLES: CRISIS OF POWER IN NORTHERN IRELAND [PDF]

Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН, 2023
The political crisis in Northern Ireland, which has been continuing since 2022, threatens its stable development. It undermines the Belfast Agreement, which ended the bloody conflict between Catholics and Protestants and allowed devolution in the region.
Oleg V. Okhoshin
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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.
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A War by Other Means? Conceptions of Democracy and the Election Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Anali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva, 2018
This article discusses the political effects of two different conceptions of democracy in ethnically deeply divided societies. It considers the conflicts with clear historical roots by analysing the case of the Election Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina ...
Ivan Pepić
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The European Union’s Political Membership Criteria and Their Effects on Divided Societies: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Journal of Balkan Studies, 2022
While the European Union’s accession criteria have served as a driving force in promoting democracy throughout Central and Eastern Europe, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has lagged behind other countries in the region in its efforts to achieve EU accession.
Danijela Dudley, Fleurine Saez
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Hybrid Power-Sharing in Indonesia [PDF]

, 2017
The aim of this study is to demonstrate the validity of the thesis that in Indonesia one can find institutions that characterize two power-sharing models which are considered opposites of one another in political theory – centripetalism and ...
Trzcinski, Krzysztof
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The Frailties of Lebanese Democracy: Outcomes and Limits of the Confessional Framework

Contexto Internacional, 2018
Lebanon is frequently referred to as a model of a plural and stable democracy in the Middle East: a multi-ethnic and pluri-religious society that guarantees political representation through a power-sharing confessional framework.
Natalia Nahas Calfat
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Justification of Galston's Liberal Pluralism [PDF]

, 2016
Liberal multicultural theories developed in late twenty-first century aims to ensure the rights of the minorities, social justice and harmony in liberal societies. Will Kymlicka is the leading philosopher in this field.
Golam, Azam
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