Power Sharing : New Challenges for Divided Societies.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (237 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: New Challenges for Power Sharing -- Democratic Values and Power Sharing -- Integration and Autonomy: Minority Rights and Political Accommodation -- Breaking Antagonism? Political Leadership in Divided Societies -- Electoral-Systems Design and Power- Sharing Regimes -- The Failure of Moderate Politics: The Case of Northern Ireland -- The Unintended Consequences of Consociational Federalism: The Case of Belgium -- Partial Implementation, Partial Success: The Case of Macedonia -- The Dichotomy of International Mediation and Leader Intransigence: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Power Sharing and National Reconciliation: The Case of Lebanon -- Overlapping Identities: Power Sharing and Women's Rights -- Below and Beyond Power Sharing: Relational Structures across Institutions and Civil Society -- The Challenge of Reconciliation in Post- confl ict Societies: Defi nitions, Problems and Proposals -- Towards a Civic Culture: Implications for Power- sharing Policy Makers -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Examines the impact of power-sharing within local communities.
9781849642545
Comparative government. Coalition governments. Representative government and representation. Ethnic relations -- Political aspects. Ethnic groups -- Political activity. Minorities -- Political activity. Cultural pluralism.