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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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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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Political participation from a citizenship perspective [PDF]
, 2009 Conventional academic studies on political participation mostly focus on electoral politics including electoral systems, political party structures and their interaction with other governmental processes. These studies adopt an approach that presumes the
Kadioglu, Ayse Gulden +1 more
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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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Managing ethnic conflict : the menu of institutional engineering [PDF]
, 2011 The debate on institutional engineering offers options to manage ethnic and other conflicts. This contribution systematically assesses the logic of these institutional designs and the empirical evidence on their functioning.
A Carattoli +34 more
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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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Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 This empirical study examines the reactions of 114 political science graduates in Malaysia, through a questionnaire-based survey on the power transition crisis that took place February 23rd to 1 March 2020.
Mohd Irwan Syazli Saidin
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