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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"consociationalism"”.
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The effects of elite-led power sharing on postconflict urban reconstruction: consociationalism and the Mostar case
… I will theorize four propositions of how ethnic consociationalism affects city-wide urban planning. The central case study will be Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a noteworthy city in which the government was (until recently) consociational at the municipal level. The case study will demonstrate …
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Contention under Consociationalism: The Selection of Strategies by Postethnic Protest Movements in Lebanon and Bosnia and Herzegovina
For decades, divided societies have been approached as testing grounds for conflict management strategies, with a primary focus on the effectiveness of power-sharing agreements and their potential to foster peace. However, the growing mobilization around non-ethnic issues has redirected attention …
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Are Ethnically Heterogeneous Cities More Democratic? Explaining the Sub-national Component of Consociationalism in Post-Conflict Countries.
… bridging the subnational regimes literature with consociationalism, representation, and political psychology; and 4) by including methodologies that take into account the geographic distribution of demographic factors and their effects on politically relevant outcomes. The main arguments are that …
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Consociationalism and equality within the European Union: a socio-legal study of community identity and gender in Northern Ireland and Belgium
Consociationalism, as a model of institutional design for the management of diversity and division, is widely criticised for placing attention on those group identities which epitomise the divisions in a particular place, at the expense of other identities which are rendered as secondary. This …
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EU politics and the making of the General Data Protection Regulation: Consociationalism, policy networks and institutionalism in the process of balancing actor interests
… policy process is looked at through the lens of consociationalism, which draws attention to the importance of national governments, policy networks, which stress non-linear policy-making dynamics, and institutionalism, which highlights the significance of institutions. On the whole, the GDPR as …
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A centripetal formula for Turkey : a multiculturalist proposal for the resolution of the republic’s long-running Kurdish question
Like consociationalism and territorial pluralism, centripetalism is a multiculturalist way of managing ethno-cultural diversity. Many scholars have examined how a consociational or territorial pluralist formula might help Turkey to resolve its long-running Kurdish problem. To date, no one has paid …
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Kurdish Politics in the Cauldron of the Middle East: Lessons from the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq from Post-Invasion 2003 to the 2017 Independence Referendum
… in post-2003 Iraq and examines the idea of consociationalism to address the approaches used to manage conflicts in divided societies, with an emphasis on the role played by ethnic and sectarian differences. The thesis examines which conflict regulation theory is best suited for …
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Power sharing in Northern Ireland: design, operation and proposals 1999-2006
… sharing focuses on the intense debate between consociationalism and integrative approaches. While consociationalists maintain that democracy in divided societies can be developed via a ‘grand coalition’ and segmental autonomy, ‘integrationists’ argue for institutions that break down antagonisms …
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Ethnicising Ulster’s Protestants: Tolerance, Peoplehood, and Class in Ulster-Scots Ethnopedagogy
… politics of consociational peace. The logic of consociationalism explicitly entails the maintenance of stark boundaries of ethnic difference. This research does not merely critique of Ulster-Scots pedagogy, but calls into question the whole consociational logic in which it, and the Northern …
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Mini-Publics and the Maxi-Public: Investigating the Perceived Legitimacy of Citizens’ Assemblies in a Deeply Divided Place
Across the world, democratic deficits arise from a growing gap between citizens’ expectations and the way they perceive political systems to operate in practice. Deliberative theory offers a potential solution by advocating the direct involvement of ordinary citizens in structured decision-making. …
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Federalism & post-conflict statebuilding: The case of Somalia
The use of federalism as an integral component in post-conflict statebuilding processes is becoming increasingly common (e.g. Iraq, Yemen & Sri Lanka). The current academic literature, however, is divided between those that argue that federalism in such fragile environments will increase the …
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Syria and Saudi Arabia in post-Ta'if Lebanon
The tiny nation-state of Lebanon has been marred by political instability and violence over the past 35 years. Most scholars blame the consociational structure of the bureaucratic system as the main culprit for the precarious state of the republic. It is an understatement to say that the delicate …
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Resurgent Ethnic Violence in Post-War Societies: A Comparative Assessment of Externally Guaranteed Consociational Experiments
This thesis examines why violent ethnic conflict re-emerges following a power-sharing agreement in states that have witnessed civil wars. By surveying the post-war state-building experiences of Lebanon, Iraq, Northern Ireland and Bosnia, it evaluates and compares the record of consociational …