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Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 951-964, September 2025.ABSTRACT Territorial reforms of administrative boundaries primarily aim at pursuing cost and administrative efficiency objectives, but their impact on the political engagement of local communities remains unclear. Moreover, while amalgamations have been widely studied, little is known about the effects of territorial fragmentation.
Augusto Cerqua, Dante Di Matteo
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The lessons of Northern Ireland: lessons of Northern Ireland and the relevance of the regional context [PDF]
, 2011 It should be stated at the outset that the notion of Northern Ireland’s political settlement as a model for other societies evokes as much hostility as it does enthusiasm.
Guelke, Adrian
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Competing Principals in a Multinational State: Legislative Behavior in Imperial Austria, 1907–1914
Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 3, August 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines legislative behavior in the lower house of the Imperial Austrian Reichsrat, a historical legislature representing a multinational society. The coincidence of economic and center‐periphery cleavages in that democratizing state presents an excellent opportunity to examine the influence of multiple competing principals on ...
Philip J. Howe +2 more
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Time to invite the ‘others’ to the table: a proposal to make South Tyrol more inclusive [PDF]
, 2016 South Tyrol, an autonomous and predominantly German-speaking province in northern Italy, is regarded as one of the most successful cases of ‘consociational’ democracy – a political system in which people deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, or other ...
Larin, Stephen J., Röggla, Marc
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The Flag that Does Not Exist—Yet? Imagining a New Symbol in Northern Ireland
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 3, Page 554-560, July/September 2025.Abstract There is a large amount of research on the use and meaning of existing flags in Northern Ireland, and more generally on symbols in violent identity conflicts. By contrast, this article explores the absence of a symbol that might be expected to exist—a unifying official flag in Northern Ireland.
David Mitchell
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Federalism: A Comprehensive Review of Its Evolution, Typologies, and Contemporary Issues
EncyclopediaThis study is intended to conduct a comprehensive review of federalism. This study starts from the institutional aspect and analyzes how federalism, as a compound structure, divides power between the central and local governments.
Lingkai Kong
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Managing Diversity: Power-sharing or Control? A Comparison between India and Sri Lanka [PDF]
, 2012 Based on the case studies of India and Sri Lanka, the paper combines conceptual and empirical findings on power-sharing arrangements as a key to conflict management in deeply divided, post-colonial societies.
Carciumaru, Radu
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Institutional Engineering, Management of Ethnicity, and Democratic Failure in Burundi
Africa Spectrum, 2016 This article argues that constitutional engineering along consociational lines in Burundi – explicitly accommodating ethnicity rather than attempting to suppress it – was instrumental in reducing the political role of ethnicity, but that other endogenous
Filip Reyntjens
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[Review of] Milton J. Esman (Ed.), Ethnic Conflict in the Western World [PDF]
, 1978 Ethnic conflict has reemerged in the economic and political arenas of the western world, less between nation states, more within the boundaries of particular nations.
Frye, Hardy T.
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