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Power-Sharing and Consociational Theory

Author : Brighid Brooks Kelly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030141918
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Power-Sharing and Consociational Theory written by Brighid Brooks Kelly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago, academics and policymakers throughout the world agreed that it was impossible for certain sets of historically antagonistic groups to coexist peacefully on a long-term basis. This book examines the system of consociation, which was identified by Arend Lijphart and ended that pessimistic consensus. Lijphart’s specific observations concerning the impact of consociation are assessed quantitatively and qualitatively, facilitated through careful operationalization of his descriptions of consociation’s four components: grand coalition, minority veto, proportionality, and segmental autonomy. Insights derived from a dataset representing the experiences of eighty-eight countries are examined further through case study analysis of the seven societies most often discussed in relation to consociation: Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Switzerland. The components of consociation are found to promote lasting peace in divided societies most successfully when combined with additional incentives for the encouragement of cross-cutting cleavages and shared loyalties.

Consociationalism and Power-Sharing in Europe

Author : Michaelina Jakala
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319670980
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Consociationalism and Power-Sharing in Europe written by Michaelina Jakala and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the theoretical and practical relevance and challenges of the consociationalist model of democracy. Since the publication of the Politics of Accommodation (1968) and Democracy in Plural Societies (1977) Professor Lijphart’s theories and practical implementations have played a key role in establishing enduring peace settlements. In this edited volume, scholars and Professor Lijphart himself critically examine the history of consocationalism and its application in areas including Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Colombia. The book will be essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students of political science, comparative politics, transitional justice and peace studies. It will also be of use to practitioners ranging from diplomats to NGOs who are interested in the practical application of tested models of political accommodation.

Consociational Theory

Author : Rupert Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134087608
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Consociational Theory written by Rupert Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consociational power sharing is increasingly gaining ground, right around the world, as a means for resolving political conflict in divided societies. In this volume, edited by Rupert Taylor, nineteen internationally-respected scholars engage in a lively debate about the merits of the theory underlying this approach. The volume focuses specifically on one of the leading cases under the global spotlight, the Northern Ireland conflict, and brings together the most prominent proponents and opponents of consociationalism. Northern Ireland’s transition from war to peace is seen by consociationalists as flowing from the historic Belfast Agreement of 1998, and specifically from the Agreement’s consociational framework. The Northern Ireland case is marketed by consociationalists as representing best practice, and as providing a template for ending conflicts in other parts of the world. However, as this volume interrogates, on what grounds, and to what extent, can such a positive reading be upheld? Taken as a whole, this volume, structured as a symposium around the highly-influential argument of John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, offers comparative, engaging, and critical insight into how political theory can contribute to the creation of a better world. Consociational Theory is an important text for anyone with an interest in political theory, conflict resolution in divided societies, or Irish politics.

Power-Sharing

Author : Allison McCulloch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317265769
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Power-Sharing written by Allison McCulloch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power-sharing is an important political strategy for managing protracted conflicts and it can also facilitate the democratic accommodation of difference. Despite these benefits, it has been much criticised, with claims that it is unable to produce peace and stability, is ineffective and inefficient, and obstructs other peacebuilding values, including gender equality. This edited collection aims to enhance our understanding of the utility of power-sharing in deeply divided places by subjecting power-sharing theory and practice to empirical and normative analysis and critique. Its overarching questions are: Do power-sharing arrangements enhance stability, peace and cooperation in divided societies? Do they do so in ways that promote effective governance? Do they do so in ways that promote justice, fairness and democracy? Utilising a broad range of global empirical case studies, it provides a space for dialogue between leading and emerging scholars on the normative questions surrounding power-sharing. Distinctively, it asks proponents of power-sharing to think critically about its weaknesses. This text will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of power-sharing, ethnic politics, democracy and democratization, peacebuilding, comparative constitutional design, and more broadly Comparative Politics, International Relations and Constitutional and Comparative Law.

Power-Sharing in Europe

Author : Soeren Keil
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030535908
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Power-Sharing in Europe written by Soeren Keil and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates the performance of consociational power-sharing arrangements in Europe. Under what conditions do consociational arrangements come in and out of being? How do consociational arrangements work in practice? The volume assesses how consociationalism is adopted, how it functions, and how it reforms or ends. Chapters cover early adopters of consociationalism, including both those which moved on to other institutional designs (the Netherlands, Austria) as well as those that continue to use consociational processes to manage their differences (Belgium, Switzerland, South Tyrol). Also analysed are ‘new wave’ cases where consociationalism was adopted after violent internal conflict (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Northern Ireland) and cases of unresolved conflict where consociationalism may yet help mediate ongoing divisions (Cyprus, Spain). Soeren Keil is Reader in Politics and International Relations, Canterbury Christ Church University, United Kingdom. Allison McCulloch is Associate Professor in Political Science, Brandon University, Canada.

Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts

Author : Timothy D. Sisk
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
ISBN 13 : 9781878379566
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts written by Timothy D. Sisk and published by US Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can power sharing prevent violent ethnic conflict? And if so, how can the international community best promote that outcome? In this concise volume, Timothy Sisk defines power sharing as practices and institutions that result in broad-based governing coalitions generally inclusive of all major ethnic groups. He identifies the principal approaches to power sharing, including autonomy, federations, and proportional electoral systems. In addition, Sisk highlights the problems with various power-sharing approaches and practices that have been raised by scholars and practitioners alike, and the instances where power-sharing experiments have succeeded and where they have failed. Finally, he offers some guidance to policymakers as they ponder power-sharing arrangements.

From Power Sharing to Democracy

Author : Sidney John Roderick Noel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773529470
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book From Power Sharing to Democracy written by Sidney John Roderick Noel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the problems of prospects of achieving sustainable democracy through power sharing political institutions in societies that have been torn by ethnic conflict. It combines theoretical and comparative essays with a wide range of case studies.

Thinking about Democracy

Author : Arend Lijphart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135980306
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Thinking about Democracy written by Arend Lijphart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on Professor Arend Lijphart’s lifetime experience of research and publication in democracy and comparative politics and collects together for the first time his most significant and influential work.

Democracy in Plural Societies

Author : Arend Lijphart
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300024944
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Plural Societies written by Arend Lijphart and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it may be difficult to achieve and maintain stable democratic governments in countries with deep religious, ideological, linguistic, cultural, or ethnic cleavages, Lijphart argues that it is not at all impossible. Through the analysis of political systems in six continents, he demonstrates that what he calls consociational democracy can be successful in severely divided or plural societies. "Here, once again, Arend Lijphart is directing our attention to matters which will surely engage much of the attention of students of comparative politics in the next decade." G. Bingham Powell, Jr., American Political Science Review "A study which can speak to such a wide audience in political science deserves a warm welcome from the profession." Government and Opposition "A copybook example of the comparative method of political analysis, as well as indispensable reading for all who have an interest in the nature and prospects of representative democracy, whether in Europe or beyond."--The Times Higher Education Supplement "This well-written work, containing a wealth of information on politics of many diverse nations, is highly recommended."--Library Journal

Power-sharing in South Africa

Author : Arend Lijphart
Publisher : Institute of International Studies University of California
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Power-sharing in South Africa written by Arend Lijphart and published by Institute of International Studies University of California. This book was released on 1985 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Power Diffusion and Democracy

Author : Julian Bernauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108483380
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Power Diffusion and Democracy written by Julian Bernauer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a theoretically and methodologically sophisticated remapping and analysis of political-institutional power diffusion in democracies.

Political Settlements in Divided Societies

Author : Christalla Yakinthou
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230246877
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Political Settlements in Divided Societies written by Christalla Yakinthou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yakinthou throws light on the challenges of adopting political settlements in frozen conflicts and divided societies by focusing on the conflict in Cyprus, the resolution of which has for years been held up, in large part by elite intransigence. The book offers answers for why elites in Cyprus are so unwilling to adopt a power-sharing solution.

Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Places

Author : Joanne McEvoy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220798X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Places written by Joanne McEvoy and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power sharing may be broadly defined as any set of arrangements that prevents one political agency or collective from monopolizing power, whether temporarily or permanently. Ideally, such measures promote inclusiveness or at least the coexistence of divergent cultures within a state. In places deeply divided by national, ethnic, linguistic, or religious conflict, power sharing is the standard prescription for reconciling antagonistic groups, particularly where genocide, expulsion, or coerced assimilation threaten the lives and rights of minority peoples. In recent history, the success record of this measure is mixed. Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Places features fifteen analytical studies of power-sharing systems, past and present, as well as critical evaluations of the role of electoral systems and courts in their implementation. Interdisciplinary and international in formation and execution, the chapters encompass divided cities such as Belfast, Jerusalem, Kirkuk, and Sarajevo and divided places such as Belgium, Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, and South Africa, as well as the Holy Roman Empire, the Saffavid Empire, Aceh in Indonesia, and the European Union. Equally suitable for specialists, teachers, and students, Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Places considers the merits and defects of an array of variant systems and provides explanations of their emergence, maintenance, and failings; some essays offer lucid proposals targeted at particular places. While this volume does not presume that power sharing is a panacea for social reconciliation, it does suggest how it can help foster peace and democracy in conflict-torn countries. Contributors: Liam Anderson, Florian Bieber, Scott A. Bollens, Benjamin Braude, Ed Cairns, Randall Collins, Kris Deschouwer, Bernard Grofman, Colin Irwin, Samuel Issacharoff, Allison McCulloch, Joanne McEvoy, Brendan O'Leary, Philippe van Parijs, Alfred Stepan, Ronald Wintrobe.

Courts and Consociations

Author : Christopher McCrudden
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019166538X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Courts and Consociations written by Christopher McCrudden and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consociations are power-sharing arrangements, increasingly used to manage ethno-nationalist, ethno-linguistic, and ethno-religious conflicts. Current examples include Belgium, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Burundi, and Iraq. Despite their growing popularity, they have begun to be challenged before human rights courts as being incompatible with human rights norms, particularly equality and non-discrimination. Courts and Consociations examines the use of power-sharing agreements, their legitimacy, and their compatibility with human rights law. Key questions include to what extent, if any, consociations conflict with the liberal individualist preferences of international human rights institutions, and to what extent consociational power-sharing may be justified to preserve peace and the integrity of political settlements. In three critical cases, the European Court of Human Rights has considered equality challenges to important consociational practices, twice in Belgium and then in Sejdic and Finci v Bosnia regarding the constitution established for Bosnia Herzegovina under the Dayton Agreement. The Court's decision in Sejdic and Finci has significantly altered the approach it previously took to judicial review of consociational arrangements in Belgium. This book accounts for this change and assess its implications. The problematic aspects of the current state of law are demonstrated. Future negotiators in places riven by potential or actual bloody ethnic conflicts may now have less flexibility in reaching a workable settlement, which may unintentionally contribute to sustaining such conflicts and make it more likely that negotiators will consider excluding regional and international courts from reviewing these political settlements. Providing a clear, accessible introduction to both the political use of power-sharing settlements and the human rights law on the issue, this book is an invaluable guide to all academics, students, and professionals engaged with transitional justice, peace agreements, and contemporary human rights law.

Governing Ethnic Conflict

Author : Andrew Finlay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136940413
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Governing Ethnic Conflict written by Andrew Finlay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an intellectual history of an emerging technology of peace and explains how the liberal state has come to endorse illiberal subjects and practices. The idea that conflicts are problems that have causes and therefore solutions rather than winners and losers has gained momentum since the end of the Cold War, and it has become more common for third party mediators acting in the name of liberal internationalism to promote the resolution of intra-state conflicts. These third-party peace makers appear to share lessons and expertise so that it is possible to speak of an emergent common technology of peace based around a controversial form of power-sharing known as consociation. In this common technology of peace, the cause of conflict is understood to be competing ethno-national identities and the solution is to recognize these identities, and make them useful to government through power-sharing. Drawing on an analysis of the peace process in Ireland and the Dayton Accords in Bosnia Herzegovina, the book argues that the problem with consociational arrangements is not simply that they institutionalise ethnic division and privilege particular identities or groups, but, more importantly, that they close down the space for other ways of being. By specifying identity categories, consociational regimes create a residual, sink category, designated 'other'. These 'others' not only offer a challenge to prevailing ideas about identity but also stand in reproach to conventional wisdom regarding the management of conflict. This book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, ethnic conflict, identity, and war and conflict studies in general. Andrew Finlay is Lecturer in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin.

Driving Democracy

Author : Pippa Norris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521694803
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Driving Democracy written by Pippa Norris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposals for power-sharing constitutions remain controversial, as highlighted by current debates in Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Sudan. This book updates and refines the theory of consociationalism, taking account of the flood of contemporary innovations in power-sharing institutions that have occurred worldwide. The book classifies and compares four types of political institutions: the electoral system, parliamentary or presidential executives, unitary or federal states, and the structure and independence of the mass media. The study tests the potential advantages and disadvantages of each of these institutions for democratic governance. Cross-national time-series data concerning trends in democracy are analyzed for all countries worldwide since the early 1970s. Chapters are enriched by comparing detailed case studies. The mixed-method research design illuminates the underlying causal mechanisms by examining historical developments and processes of institutional change within particular nations and regions. The conclusion draws together the results and the practical lessons for policymakers.

The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation

Author : Oliver P. Richmond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190904410
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation written by Oliver P. Richmond and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation offers an authoritative and comprehensive overview of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation. With contributions from over thirty distinguished and leading scholars, the Handbook provides a timely, engaging, and critical overview of conceptual foundations, political implications, and tensions at the global, regional, and local levels. It examines the key policies, practices, examples, and discourses underlining various segments of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation both as discursive formulations and as policy practices. Organized around four major thematic sections, the Handbook offers a state-of-the-art synthesis of the most pressing contemporary peace and conflict issues and charts new pathways for responding to transnational insecurities"--