Mounting evidence indicates that power-sharing supports transitions to democracy.
However, the resulting quality of democracy remains understudied. Given the increasing …

Lijphart's claim that power-sharing spurs democratization in divided societies has strongly
influenced 'institutional engineering'and is widely accepted among scholars despite the fact …

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 …

A potentially beneficial conflict management tool, post-conflict power-sharing is often marred
by political crises and instability. We explore the link between power-sharing …

How do consociations come in and out of being? How do consociations work, that is, how do
they resolve potential political crises and other forms of deadlock between power-sharing …

International mediators are often tasked to promote liberal norms. However, dilemmas
created in diffusing these norms, influenced by the mediators' interaction with the conflict …

This paper examines how the research on, and the practice of, peace mediation has evolved
in the past 25 years, with a particular focus on the hypothesised factors that explain …

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

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 …

Constitutional design–Constitutional degradation–Power sharing–The rule of law–
Constitutionalism–Constitution making–Constitutional transition–Divided societies–Role of …