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Power-Sharing: Empirical and Normative Challenges book cover

1st Edition

Power-Sharing Empirical and Normative Challenges

Edited By Allison McCulloch, John McGarry Copyright 2017
312 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Power-sharing is an important political strategy for managing protracted conflicts and it can also facilitate the democratic accommodation of difference. Despite these benefits, it has been much criticised, with claims that it is unable to produce peace and stability, is ineffective and inefficient, and obstructs other peacebuilding values, including gender equality. This edited collection aims... Read more

Introduction: Contemporary Challenges to Power-Sharing Theory and Practice

Allison McCulloch

  1. Centripetalism, Consociationalism and Cyprus: The "Adoptability" Question

    2. John McGarry

  2. Power-Sharing in Kenya: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

    3. Nic Cheeseman and Christina Murray

  3. Power-Sharing Executives: Consociational and Centripetal Formulae and the Case of Northern Ireland

    4. John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary

  4. Consociationalism in the Brussels Capital Region: Dis-Proportional Representation and the Accommodation of National Minorities

    5. Thibaud Bodson and Neophytos Loizides

  5. Mandatory Power-Sharing in Coup-Prone Fiji

    6. Jon Fraenkel

  6. Ethnic Power-Sharing Coalitions and Democratization

    7. Nils-Christian Bormann

  7. Lebanon: How Civil War Transformed Consociationalism

    8. Matthijs Bogaards

  8. Power-Sharing in Burundi: An Enduring Miracle?

    9. Stef Vandeginste

  9. Mostar as Microcosm: Power-Sharing in Post-War Bosnia

    10. Sumantra Bose

  10. Power-Sharing and the Pursuit of Good Governance

    11. Joanne McEvoy

  11. Good Fences Make Good Neighbours: Assessing the Role of Consociational Politics in Transitional Justice

    12. Kristian Brown and Fionnuala Ni Aolain

  12. Gendering Power-Sharing

Siobhan Byrne and Allison McCulloch

Conclusion: What Explains the Performance of Power-Sharing Settlements?

John McGarry

Biography

Allison McCulloch is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brandon University, Canada. Her research explores the processes and institutions that facilitate the building of democracy and stability in deeply divided places, with a particular emphasis on power-sharing.

John McGarry is Professor of Political Studies and Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy in the Department of Political Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. His academic work is mainly concerned with the design of political institutions in deeply divided places.

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