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Consociationalism under examination: Is consociationalism the optimal multiculturalist approach for Turkey?

Digest of Middle East Studies, 2020
AbstractSome scholars maintain that the Republic of Turkey should construct a consociational model to manage its ethno‐cultural diversity. This article suggests consociationalism is not the optimal multiculturalist approach for Turkey, where there is some degree of interethnic moderation between ethnic Kurds and Turks at the grassroots level.
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Lijphart, Lakatos, and Consociationalism

World Politics, 1997
Arend Lijphart's 1969 article on consociational democracy was a compelling critique of prevailing theories of democratic stability and the launching pad for one of the most widely regarded research programs in contemporary comparative politics. However, Lijphart and others who adopted consociational approaches encountered severe logical, theoretical ...
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Consociationalism : Theoretical Development Illustrated by the Case of Belgium

Res Publica, 2001
The theory on consociational democracies has evolved significantly in the last decades. One aim of the article is to discuss this development. Arend Lijphart's groundbreaking book from 1977 has inspired critics and lead to important theoretical amelioration.
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Consociationalism: Its relevance for Nigeria

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 1999
Studies by political scientists and theorists have identified ethnicity and ethnonationalism as potential obstacles to democracy and political stability in multiethnic states. Nigeria as a pluralistic polity shares in this category of countries where fierce competition for power among its various ethnic groups has made governing a difficult task.
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Between Consociationalism and Control

2004
For most observers today Sri Lanka is a country consigned to endless violence and the most brutal ethnic warfare witnessed anywhere in the past two decades. But it was not always so. Sri Lanka had made a smooth transition to democracy in 1948, and throughout the early years of independence and subsequently in the 1950s and 1960s, native and foreign ...
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Consociationalism and Accommodation in Switzerland

The Journal of Politics, 1981
IN MY BRIEF REPLY, I would like to deal first with criticism made in Henderson's "Comments: Consociational Democracy and the Case of Switzerland,' and then review the implications of recent modifications in the theory of consociational democracy for Switzerland.
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Lebanon: From Consociationalism to Conciliation

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 2009
This article seeks to interpret recent developments in Lebanon in the light of a well-known theory, consociationalism, which presents itself as a model for the government of deeply divided societies. It therefore begins by looking at the character of this particular approach to government, describing the main features of consociationalism.
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Lebanon: Confessionalism, Consociationalism, and Social Cohesion

2017
The notion of negative resilience is Lebanon’s foremost contribution to the study of social cohesion in deeply divided societies. Aoun and Zahar's analysis of the Lebanon case illustrates the manner in which the confessional system of consociational governance deeply constrains donors’ efforts to foster cross-cutting social engagement, and to ...
Joy Aoun, Marie-Joëlle Zahar
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Consociationalism in Theory and Practice

2009
Consociational democracy is both highly contested in the academic literature and widely used by constitutional engineers working to re-establish democratic governance in deeply divided polities. This work seeks to understand why elites in Cyprus have been thus far unprepared to share power.
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What about Post-War Consociationalism?

2009
As the post-war system started acquiring heavy authoritarian features, consociational traits were simultaneously derailed. Power-sharing – whose maintenance and success, particularly in the Lebanese case – closely depends on elite cooperation, balanced inter-communal relations, and non-alignment, was adversely affected by intrinsic and extrinsic agents.
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