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Power-Sharing and Political Stability in Deeply Divided Societies book cover

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Power-Sharing and Political Stability in Deeply Divided Societies

By Allison McCulloch Copyright 2014
174 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Nearly all the peace accords signed in the last two decades have included power-sharing in one form or another. The notion of both majority and minority segments co-operating for the purposes of political stability has informed both international policy prescriptions for post-conflict zones and home-grown power-sharing pacts across the globe. This book examines the effect of power-sharing forms... Read more

1 Power-Sharing, Political Stability and Deep Divisions  2 Consociationalism, Centripetalism and The Intellectual Conflict  3 Consociationalism  4 Centripetalism  Chapter 5 Context Matters

Biography

Allison McCulloch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brandon University.

This book contributes to the debate between Arend Lijphart and Donald Horowitz, which concerns the best institutional means for promoting stable democracy in deeply (here specifically ethnically) divided societies. Treating both Lijphart's consociationalism and Horowitz's centripetalism as forms of "power sharing", McCulloch (Brandon Univ.) provides useful overviews of these two approaches to managing conflict through democratic means.

Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections.

--P. J. Howe, Adrian College, CHOICE 

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