Ethnic civil war, the most common type of war in the 21st century, is one of the biggest
challenges for development practitioners and scholars. Like other types of armed conflict, it …

Consociational democracy is commonly discussed through the assumed premise of co‐
ethnic group representation whereby representatives are institutionally incentivized to …

How and why do political parties seek cross-ethnolinguistic support within a consociation?
This article constitutes a thematic analysis of 30 interviews undertaken with MPs from the …

Consociational democracy is a well-known recipe for managing divided societies, but critics
have questioned the functionality of the power-sharing it prescribes. When different …

Federal systems tend to have two venues of representation to ensure that both the people as
a whole and the constituent units are represented at the federal level. While this double …

Unlike natural conception and other assisted reproductive technologies, surrogacy involves
three crucial factors: family legislation, family ethics, and reproductive technology. This …

Belgium illustrates that using consociational institutions in divided societies may ensure a
peaceful political environment, but it fails in reducing its centrifugal tendencies. As …

The internal diversity of multinational states is often argued to be a burden. As
ethnoterritorial tensions commonly result in political conflicts and gridlocks, such states are …

Аннотация Настоящее исследование посвящено ретроспективному анализу развития
проблемы сепаратизма в Бельгии в контексте существующего этнического конфликта …

Does decentralization fuel or pacify tensions? Autonomy provisions are amongst the most
popular instruments to address ethno-territorial tensions in divided states. Yet, both …