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Consociationalism in Iraq after 2003 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This thesis explores whether Iraq was a consociational democracy both formally as well as in practice from 2003 to 2014. Consociational theories suggest that democracies that encompass the consociational principles of proportional representation, autonomy, power sharing government, and the protection of key community interests by mutual veto provisions
Aziz, Ibrahim Muhammad
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The State of Consociationalism in Lebanon

open access: yesNationalism and Ethnic Politics, 2023
Deploying a critical juncture agency approach, this paper undertakes a genealogy of the adoption of consociationalism at colonial state formation in Lebanon to compare different consociational experiences as actually existing processes.
Bassel F. Salloukh (17704392)
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Iraq’s Constitution of 2005: The Case Against Consociationalism ‘Light’

open access: yes, 2021
Scholars and practitioners tend to favor transitory power-sharing arrangements and liberal forms of consociationalism. Iraq’s constitution of 2005 has both, but the country has been in turmoil ever since.
Bogaards, Matthijs
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Examining the Prospects of Consociational Power-Sharing as a Conflict Resolution Strategy in South Sudan

open access: yesAfrican 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 Impact of Consociational Democracy in Iraqi Kurdistan on Iranian Kurdish Anti-Revolution Parties [PDF]

open access: yesFaṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat, 2023
IntroductionIranian Kurdish anti-Revolution parties have been a source of insecurity in western Iran, undergoing significant changes in their movement over time.
Majid Mohammadi   +3 more
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Consociationalism meets centripetalism : hybrid power-sharing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Contemporary power-sharing theory is characterized by an impasse between consociationalism and centripetalism. This article proposes the concept of hybrid power-sharing (HPS) as a possible solution.
Trzciński, Krzysztof
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The Relative Success of Consociational Institutions in Deeply Divided Societies

open access: yesPolitikon, 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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Exploring Ethnocracy and the Possibilities of Coexistence in Beirut

open access: yesCosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
In response to James Anderson’s article “Ethnocracy: Exploring and extending the concept”, this article revisits some of the extensive discussions of Lebanon’s political sectarianism through the prism of ethnocracy to the extent that it contributes to an
Konstantin Kastrissianakis
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Consociationalism as a minimal benchmark for normative theory [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini
This 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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How Theoretically Opposite Models of Interethnic Power‑Sharing Can Complement Each Other and Contribute to Political Stabilization: The Case of Nigeria

open access: yesPoliteja, 2016
The aim of this article is to demonstrate the thesis that the stabilization of Nigeria’s complicated political situation is furthered by the functioning in that country of institutions based on two models of interethnic power‑sharing – consociationalism ...
Krzysztof Trzciński
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