Five decades after the term consociationalism made its debut in the comparative politics of
divided societies, the huge body of international literature it has sparked continues to grow …

The power-sharing literature lacks a review that synthesizes its findings, despite spanning
over 50 years since Arend Lijphart published his seminal 1969 article 'Consociational …

In 2015, Radio Slobodna Evropa (Radio Free Europe) introduced several teenagers from
Mostar as part of a documentary programme (Perspektiva) discussing how young people …

Incremental democratic decline is evident in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), but measures of
democracy conceal an uneven subnational distribution of autocratization. So far there has …

When considering strategies to address violent conflict, scholars and policymakers debate
the wisdom of recognizing versus avoiding reference to ethnic identities in government …

Consociationalists have traditionally embraced sectarian authoritarianism combined with a
very limited form of democracy as the only democratic way of managing plural conflicts. New …

This book focuses on the design and operation of power-sharing in deeply divided societies.
Beyond this starting point, it seeks to examine the different ways in which consociational …

This study analyses the role of consociational politics as a mediating effect in enhancing
ethnic unity among youth in Malaysia, with reference to the university students, through …

Examining 50 intra-state peace processes (1989–2006) through fsQCA, we identify three
clusters of peace agreements being consistently associated with successful war-to peace …

Peace Settlements and Political Transformation in Divided Societies examines what
happened to Northern Ireland and South Africa after their miraculous political settlements in …