Civic political parties in divided societies occupy an ambiguous place in the power-sharing
literature. Scholarship tends to focus on ethnic parties and assumes civic actors to be …

Elite cohesion structures interethnic bargaining and institutional design in post-conflict
divided societies. Although works have explored how interethnic elite bargaining affects …

By prioritising ethnic representation over gender representation, consociationalism is often
criticised as being 'gender blind'. This trend is very apparent in Mauritius's consociational …

Through a case study of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, this article examines the
contention that consociational power-sharing, in its determination to include dominant and …

In authoritarian systems, ethnic power-sharing arrangements include important ethnic
groups in government and decision-making while putting restraints on political competition …

A recent call by some feminist conflict mediation practitioners proposes to rename power-
sharing: either by prioritizing sharing over power or by replacing 'power'with the word …

Consociational power-sharing mandates representation of politically salient groups in
government and encourages their participation in decision making. This leaves identities …

In liberal democracies, the protection of territorial minorities can take various forms. This
article presents and discusses the geometric mean as a peculiar mechanism used in the …

While the nation-state remains the prevailing mode of political organization in the world
today, many states now offer a range of institutional mechanisms designed to accommodate …

This paper combines anthropological and other critical security studies with research on
cultural work to better understand the impact cultural institutions may have on the (de) …