Consociationalism and Centripetalism: Friends or Foes? [PDF]
Swiss Political Science Review, 2019 AbstractTwo schools dominate the literature on democracy in divided societies: consociationalism and centripetalism. The first advocates group representation and power sharing while the second recommends institutions that promote multi‐ethnic parties. Although often presented as mutually exclusive choices, in reality many new democracies display a mix.
Matthijs Bogaards
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Who Benefits from Consociationalism? Religious Disparities in Lebanon’s Political System
Religions, 2018 This study examines the extent to which confessional identities in Lebanon are responsible for shaping individual views toward their government. Specifically, I investigate disparities between religious groups in their perceptions of democracy and ...
Kenneth Vaughan
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Iraq’s Informal Consociationalism and Its Problems [PDF]
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2020 AbstractThis paper looks at the applicability of formal, informal, liberal and corporate consociationalism to Iraq. It examines the drafting of the Iraqi constitution in 2005 and the political system it consecrated. It argues that the political system in Iraq is a good example of informal consociationalism, with government formation governed by ...
Toby Dodge
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Crisis, Opportunities, and Consociational Federalism: Reassessing Lijphart’s Work After Half a Century of Consociationalism [PDF]
Revista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals, 2021 Half a century ago, Dutch political scientist Arend Lijphart crafted the concept of consociational democracy (or consociationalism). His theory first aimed at explaining how divided societies could be politically stable, but was then used as a normative ...
Dave Guénette
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Consociational Democracy in Lebanon: Modern Challenges and Development Prospects
RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2021 This article explores some key problems of the organization and operation of the Lebanese confessional political system. The study is carried out within the framework of the comparative approach and, in essence, is a comparison of the Lebanese realities ...
Arseny A. Kerimov
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Ethnic identity (geo)politics as a zero-sum game. Towards an assessment of the long-term effects of the Ohrid framework agreement [PDF]
Bezbednosni Dijalozi, 2021 Since 2001 the inter-ethnic relations between the two largest ethno-national communities in the Republic of Macedonia have been regulated by the Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA). Describing it as an attempt at Complex Power Sharing, the article explores
Adela M. GJORGJIOSKA
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The possibilities and limits of non-territorial autonomy in securing indigenous self-determination [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2020 Non-territorial autonomy (NTA) incorporates a mixture of different arrangements such as consociationalism and national-cultural autonomy (NCA), and forms of representation that de-territorialize self-determination.
Shikova Natalija
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Consociational democracy, citizenship and the role of the EU in Kosovo’s contested state-building
Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, 2021 Consociational democracy has increasingly been adopted as a useful approach for conflict transformation in ethnic and violently divided societies. Its ultimate purpose is to turn former rivals into governing allies by providing power-sharing arrangements.
Bekim Baliqi
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Bolivia at a Crossroads: Is Consolidation of a ‘Divided Society’ Feasible?
Вестник Московского Университета. Серия XXV: Международные отношения и мировая политика, 2020 A protest wave which began in 2019 has swept across many Latin American countries. The Multinational State of Bolivia, where rapid destabilization of political situation has led to a serious internal crisis, was no exception.
T. A. Vorotnikova
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A Constitution for Peace: Federalism and Consociationalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Revista Electrónica de Derecho Internacional Contemporáneo, 2020 The present paper draws on the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, resulted from the Dayton Peace Agreement, in order to explain how the elements of federalism and consociationalism can become important tools in the field of transitional justice. By
Francisco Aras
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