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Deliberation and Consociation: Joint Pathways to Peace in Divided Societies [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2019
In this short commentary, Arend Lijphart continues the conversation on the role of deliberation in promoting the “spirit of accommodation” in deeply divided societies.
Arend Lijphart
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Agonism in divided societies [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophy & Social Criticism, 2006
This article considers how reconciliation might be understood as a democratic undertaking. It does so by examining the implications of the debate between theorists of ‘deliberative’ and ‘agonistic’ democracy for the practice of democracy in divided societies.
Schaap, Andrew
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Regional Demarcation, Territorial Alteration, and Accommodation of Divided Societies // Demarcación regional, modificación territorial y acomodación de las divided societies

open access: yesRevista de Derecho Político, 2015
Resumen El artículo examina los medios mediante que se consigue la cohabitación de comunidades altamente diferenciadas por lengua, confesión religiosa, cultura en sistema federales.
Matteo Nicolini
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Binary Deliberation: The Role of Social Learning in Divided Societies

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2012
The aim of this paper is to outline a new framework based on an extension and of the current theories of deliberative democracy. The framework, which I call “Binary Deliberation” emanates from an analysis of the social learning phase of deliberative ...
Bora Kanra
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Consociational Democracy in Lebanon: Modern Challenges and Development Prospects

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Political Science, 2021
This article explores some key problems of the organization and operation of the Lebanese confessional political system. The study is carried out within the framework of the comparative approach and, in essence, is a comparison of the Lebanese realities ...
Arseny A. Kerimov
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The European Union’s Political Membership Criteria and Their Effects on Divided Societies: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

open access: yesJournal of Balkan Studies, 2022
While the European Union’s accession criteria have served as a driving force in promoting democracy throughout Central and Eastern Europe, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has lagged behind other countries in the region in its efforts to achieve EU accession.
Danijela Dudley, Fleurine Saez
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How Democracy Functions in Ethnically Divided Societies, and Power-Sharing Minorities

open access: yesІсторико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу, 2019
Book review Licia Cianetti "The Quality of Divided Democracies. Minority Inclusion, Exclusion, and Reprsentation in the New Europe"
Тарас Лупул
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Authority and Deliberative Moments: Assessing Equality and Inequality in Deeply Divided Groups

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2017
The notion of equality is central to public deliberation, but few researches have examined how participants construct interactions in face-to-face group discussion involving unequal conditions of authority.
Danila Cal   +5 more
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Approaches to Managing Ethnoreligious Diversity: the Case of the City-State Singapore

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Political Science, 2020
The article examines the problem of finding an appropriate power-sharing model for a divided society with cleavages along religious, linguistic, cultural and ethnic lines.
Ilya R. Lavrov, Oxana G. Kharitonova
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Mediated Deliberation in Deep Conflicts: How Might Deliberative Media Content Contribute to Social Integration Across Deep Divides?

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2021
Conflicts perceived by the media, either within or across national borders, are a staple of modern societies. These conflicts become especially challenging for societies that are divided along religious, ethnic, cultural or political lines.
Charlotte Löb, Hartmut Wessler
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