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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 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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Consociationalism

2017
According to its advocates, consociationalism helps to secure democracy and social peace in divided societies. According to its critics, power-sharing arrangements and local autonomy reinforce societal divisions. They see consociationalism as a transitory remedy at best, especially useful in postconflict societies.
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Continuity or regime change in the Netherlands: Consociationalism in a deterritorialized and post-secular world

Ethnicities, 2012
Consociationalism in its generic form of power sharing is still topical and relevant. The revolution in communication technology has changed the habitat in which minorities exist.
Been, Wouter, Wouter de Been
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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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Consociationalism in Belgium

Abstract Belgium is the longest continuing consociation in the world. Its politicians have used consociationalism to accommodate the economic and religious cleavage since 1918 and the linguistic cleavage since 1970. This chapter examines these experiences under the heading of consociationalism 1.0 and 2.0.
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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 coalition politics in Malaysia

2010
In this thesis I have examined the "consociational" arrangements used by the political elites in Malaysia, namely the elite transactions and bargaining which occurred in the original Alliance Party system, and especially the refashioning of the formula towards a grand coalition strategy after the May 13, 1969 riots.
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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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