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Minority Veto Rights in Kosovo’s Democracy
Age of Human Rights Journal, 2019 The political system of Kosovo belongs to the power sharing democracies. Indeed, it has all the characteristics of Consociational Democracy. In addition to that, minority veto rights are absolute and go above the aims of this type of democracy. As it is
Behar Selimi
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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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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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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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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 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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Consociationalism as a minimal benchmark for normative theory [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u PrištiniThis article argues that consociationalism, an instrument for managing deeply divided societies, can also be understood as a form of minimal normative political theory. Drawing on Arend Lijphart's consociational model of democracy and juxtaposing it with
Semenov Andrej A., Nedeljković Zoran D.
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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 ...
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Theory Of Patronized Goods. Liberal Evolution Of Paternalism.
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Knowledge, 2016 The neo-classical principles of rational behavior are considered in the context of the nature of paternalism as the basis of the Theory of patronized goods. The formation of society’s normative interests is discussed in concern of political aspects. The
Aleksandr Yakovlevic Rubinstein
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Lebanon: An Ordinary “Consociational Democracy” in the Regional Context
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2019 Lebanon has a number of features that determine its special position in the region and its importance in the system of relations between the Middle East states.
A. V. Sarabiev
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