Power-Sharing
Empirical and Normative Challenges
Published on 21. April 2017
312 pages
978-1-317-26576-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 to enhance our understanding of the utility of power-sharing in deeply divided places by subjecting power-sharing theory and practice to empirical and normative analysis and critique. Its overarching questions are:
Do power-sharing arrangements enhance stability, peace and cooperation in divided societies?
Do they do so in ways that promote effective governance?
Do they do so in ways that promote justice, fairness and democracy?
Utilising a broad range of global empirical case studies, it provides a space for dialogue between leading and emerging scholars on the normative questions surrounding power-sharing. Distinctively, it asks proponents of power-sharing to think critically about its weaknesses.
This text will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of power-sharing, ethnic politics, democracy and democratization, peacebuilding, comparative constitutional design, and more broadly Comparative Politics, International Relations and Constitutional and Comparative Law.
This edited collection aims to enhance our understanding of the utility of power-sharing in deeply divided places by subjecting power-sharing theory and practice to empirical and normative analysis and critique. Its overarching questions are:
Do power-sharing arrangements enhance stability, peace and cooperation in divided societies?
Do they do so in ways that promote effective governance?
Do they do so in ways that promote justice, fairness and democracy?
Utilising a broad range of global empirical case studies, it provides a space for dialogue between leading and emerging scholars on the normative questions surrounding power-sharing. Distinctively, it asks proponents of power-sharing to think critically about its weaknesses.
This text will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of power-sharing, ethnic politics, democracy and democratization, peacebuilding, comparative constitutional design, and more broadly Comparative Politics, International Relations and Constitutional and Comparative Law.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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Reflowable
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1 s/w Abbildung, 10 s/w Tabellen, 1 s/w Zeichnung
10 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
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1,99 MB
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978-1-317-26576-4 (9781317265764)
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
Introduction: Contemporary Challenges to Power-Sharing Theory and Practice
Centripetalism, Consociationalism and Cyprus: The "Adoptability" Question
Power-Sharing in Kenya: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Power-Sharing Executives: Consociational and Centripetal Formulae and the Case of Northern Ireland
Consociationalism in the Brussels Capital Region: Dis-Proportional Representation and the Accommodation of National Minorities
Mandatory Power-Sharing in Coup-Prone Fiji
Ethnic Power-Sharing Coalitions and Democratization
Lebanon: How Civil War Transformed Consociationalism
Power-Sharing in Burundi: An Enduring Miracle?
Mostar as Microcosm: Power-Sharing in Post-War Bosnia
Power-Sharing and the Pursuit of Good Governance
Good Fences Make Good Neighbours: Assessing the Role of Consociational Politics in Transitional Justice
Gendering Power-Sharing
Conclusion: What Explains the Performance of Power-Sharing Settlements?
Centripetalism, Consociationalism and Cyprus: The "Adoptability" Question
Power-Sharing in Kenya: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Power-Sharing Executives: Consociational and Centripetal Formulae and the Case of Northern Ireland
Consociationalism in the Brussels Capital Region: Dis-Proportional Representation and the Accommodation of National Minorities
Mandatory Power-Sharing in Coup-Prone Fiji
Ethnic Power-Sharing Coalitions and Democratization
Lebanon: How Civil War Transformed Consociationalism
Power-Sharing in Burundi: An Enduring Miracle?
Mostar as Microcosm: Power-Sharing in Post-War Bosnia
Power-Sharing and the Pursuit of Good Governance
Good Fences Make Good Neighbours: Assessing the Role of Consociational Politics in Transitional Justice
Gendering Power-Sharing
Conclusion: What Explains the Performance of Power-Sharing Settlements?
