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Political stability in deeply divided societies: evidence from post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina
Političke Perspektive, 2023 This article explores the causes of political stability in deeply divided societies. Building upon literature on consociationalism and post-conflict management, in the case of post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina, we determine periods of political ...
Stefan Vukojević
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African Journal of Political Science, 2022 South Sudan has not escaped the world’s attention even after the signing of the infamous Revitalized Peace Agreement in September 2018 that for the 12th time brought the two antagonists –Kiir and Dr.
Israel Nyaburi Nyadera +1 more
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The Relative Success of Consociational Institutions in Deeply Divided Societies
Politikon, 2020 Lebanon and Northern Ireland conjure opposite images on consociationalism in the minds of many political scientists. While in Lebanon, the consociational system widely proved inefficient in preventing the outbreak of ethno-national conflicts, the ...
Chloé Bernadaux
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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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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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Census politics in deeply divided societies [PDF]
, 2019 Population censuses in societies that are deeply divided along ethnic, religious or linguistic lines can be sensitive affairs – particularly where political settlements seek to maintain peace through the proportional sharing of power between groups. This
A Leibler +29 more
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Power Sharing and Zoning Formula for Managing Nigeria's Diversity: A Case of the Fourth Republic
Lentera Hukum, 2022 Nigeria is composed of plural and multi-complex societies with multiple ethnic groups of up to 500 cultural diversities. This country surmounts the obstacles of managing diversity through an informal setting popularly identified as a zoning formula and ...
Babayo Sule, Usman Sambo
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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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Hybrid Power-Sharing in Indonesia [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this study is to demonstrate the validity of the thesis that in Indonesia one can find institutions that characterize two power-sharing models which are considered opposites of one another in political theory – centripetalism and ...
Trzcinski, Krzysztof
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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.
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