In the past decades, New Institutionalism in political science has rekindled an interest in the
role of institutions and has theorized the interaction between formal and informal institutions …

Two schools dominate the literature on democracy in divided societies: consociationalism
and centripetalism. The first advocates group representation and power sharing while the …

Power‐sharing is a leading institutional strategy for the management of ethnic conflict. Yet its
performance is uneven. It often delivers a peace dividend: stopping violence, avoiding …

Veto power is a key institutional pillar of consociational power-sharing. However, the
literature is divided on its impact for institutional functionality. While the founding father of …

Conclusions about the potential for peace via power-sharing are mixed. For some, power-
sharing does little to overcome the commitment problem characterizing a transition from …

Consociational power sharing has become one of the leading mechanisms of governance
introduced in deeply divided post-conflict societies. When communal divisions seem …

After the signing of the Dayton Agreement, critical literature has attempted to portray
consociation in Bosnia and Herzegovina as the predominant source of the country's political …

Does power-sharing reduce or increase ethnic salience? Drawing on social psychology, I
identify two countervailing mechanisms that help reconcile previously opposed findings …

How do consociations craft their asylum policy, and how do they deal with the rights of
“others”? Research has started to explore the relationship between consociational …

Scholars debate whether self‐rule is conducive to intrastate violence or peace. We argue
that to resolve this problem the entire institutional setup of the state must be taken into …