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Overview: Power-Sharing
I. Definition of Key Terms and Logic
II. Example of Partial Success: Northern Ireland
III. Example of Partial Success: Bosnia
IV. Dilemmas in Power Sharing
V. Return Outlines
Definition of Terms
Power-Sharing: the participation and representation of significant groups in political-decision-making.
Group Autonomy: sub-national groups have authority over their own internal affairs (e.g., education, religion, within-group disputes).
Definition of Key Terms
Consociational Democracy
3. Mutual Veto
4. Constitutional “Federal” government: locally elected executives and legislatures.
Additional conditions may need to be present to make it work (third parties, balance of power
Logic of Consociationalism
Why it does not fit other diagnoses of civil conflict:
Does not directly address profitability of insurgency
Does not worry about groups using grievances for private gain (assumes insurgents represent groups)
Little consideration of the strategic implications of power-sharing for ethnic leaders.
Partial Success: Bosnia