From Power Sharing to Democracy : Post-Conflict Institutions in Ethnically Divided Societies.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Debating Consociational Politics: Normative and Explanatory Arguments -- 2 Between Stability and Collapse: Internal and External Dynamics of Post-agreement Institution Building in Northern Ireland -- 3 Significant Events in the Northern Ireland Peace Process: Impact and Implementation -- 4 Power Sharing after Yugoslavia: Functionality and Dysfunctionality of Power-sharing Institutions in Post-war Bosnia, Macedonia, and Kosovo -- 5 Post-conflict Reconstruction: Constitutional and Transitional Power-sharing Arrangements in Bosnia and Kosovo -- 6 Power Sharing in a Police Car: The Intractable Difficulty of Police Reform in Kosovo and Macedonia -- 7 Power Sharing and Rights Protection in the Prevention and Management of Ethnic Conflict: The Case of Post-apartheid South Africa -- 8 Power Sharing in South Africa: The African National Congress as a Consociational Party? -- 9 Anarchy and the Problems of Power Sharing in Africa -- 10 Afghanistan: Multicultural Federalism as a Means to Achieve Democracy, Representation, and Stability -- 11 Power Sharing for Cyprus (Again)? European Union Accession and the Prospects for Reunification -- 12 Conditionality, Consociationalism, and the European Union -- 13 Federation as a Method of Ethnic Conflict Regulation -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Post-conflict societies invariably experience great difficulty in making their new democratic power-sharing institutions work. In Northern Ireland, the system for power sharing prescribed in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement has repeatedly broken down. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, the system prescribed under the Dayton Accord of 1995 depends for its survival on the presence of a substantial international peacekeeping force.

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