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Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society

Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 206-227, Summer 2026.
Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
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Based on its constitutional and institutional set-up, could India be rightly conceived as a 'consociational' (power-sharing) democracy?

The South Asianist, 2014
A Consociational democracy is a model of governance that uses power sharing to cope with societal divisions. Lijphart (1996: 258) outlined four crucial, interdependent elements, which characterise consociationalism; “Grand Coalition” governments in which
Alastair Carr
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ПОЛИТИЧКАТА КУЛТУРА НА ЕЛИТИТЕ - ПЕТТИОТ ЕЛЕМЕНТ ВО КОНСОЦИЈАЦИСКИОТ МОДЕЛ НА ДЕМОКРАТИЈА [PDF]

Bezbednosni Dijalozi, 2011
The political consensus of elites is of essential importance for the consolidation of political systems, especially in the deeply divided societies.
Давче НАСЕВСКИ
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Journey to the Centre of the State: Catalans in Madrid and Scots in London

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 520-534, April 2026.
ABSTRACT In recent years, comparative studies between Scotland and Catalonia have grown substantially, especially those dealing with the territorial embeddedness of these territories in the United Kingdom and Spain. Despite this, comparative research on the integration of Catalans and Scots in the decision‐making of central state institutions is ...
Javier Antón‐Merino
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Practicing Power‐Sharing: How Political Adversaries (Fail to) Rule Jointly

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 374-385, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Why does power‐sharing lead to peace and effective governance in some cases but not others? Whereas the current literature on this question predominantly focuses on institutional design, this article argues that more attention should be given to the everyday activities, routines and processes through which power‐sharing is operated.
Alexandre Wadih Raffoul
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The Netherlands: still a consociational democracy? [PDF]

, 2011
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 ...
Daalder, Hans
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Continuity and change: Consociational democracy in the Benelux countries

, 1979
This study seeks to examine and refine the concept of consociational democracy, a political system in which political leaders of socially and politically distinct groups interact with one another in an atmosphere of moderation and mutual accommodation. A
Williams, John Hunter Porter
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Collective head of state and government system: Bosnia and Herzegovina solutions in the comparative law [PDF]

Strani pravni život, 2020
The collective head of state is one of the hallmarks of the unity of government. Still, on examples of its division, the dominance of the head of state within the executive indicates significant influence or predominance of elements of the presidential ...
Golić Darko P.
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IPS881730_French_Spanish_abstract – Supplemental material for Democracy, ethnoicracy and consociational demoicracy

, 2019
Supplemental material, IPS881730_French_Spanish_abstract for Democracy, ethnoicracy and consociational demoicracy by Nenad Stojanović in International Political Science Review
Nenad Stojanović (8188536)
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OTTOMAN MILLET SYSTEM AND THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF BOTH YUGOSLAVIAS AS PRE-CONSOCIATIONAL EXPERIENCE FOR THE MACEDONIAN AND THE BOSNIAN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY

Iustinianus Primus Law Review, 2015
In the theory of consociation it is said that countries that adopt this model for building a sustainable democracy in deeply divided societies would be far more successful in its application if those particular societies have previously experienced ...
Nikola Ambarkov
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