Thinking about Democracy
Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19600351 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arend Lijphart (University of California San Diego, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 305 |
| Publication date | 2007-10-10 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Thinking about Democracy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203934685 |
| OpenAlex | W337314171 |
| Open Library | OL33770506M |
| ISBN | 9780203934685 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 129 |
Part 1: Introduction 1. Developments in Power-Sharing Theory and Practice Part 2: and Consensus Democracy 2. Consociational World Politics, January 1969 3. Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Interpretation, American Political Science Review, June 1996 4. Constitutional Design for Divided Societies, Journal of Democracy, April 2004 5. Self-Determination Versus Pre-Determination of Ethnic Minorities in Power-Sharing in David Schneiderman, ed., Language and the State: The Laws and Politaics of Identity, Cowansville, Quebec: Editions Yvon Blais, 1991 6. Quality of Democracy: Consensus Democracy Makes a Difference, Chapter 16 of Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999 Part 3: Rule 7. Majority Rule in Theory and Practice: The Tenacity of a Flawed Paradigm, International Social Science Journal, August 1991 8. Back to Democratic Basics: Who Really Practices Rule?, in Axel Hadenius, ed., Democracy's Victory and Crisis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 Part 4: Presidential vs. Parliamentary Government 9. Presidentialism and Majoritarian Democracy: Theoretical Observations, in Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela, eds., The Failure of Presidential Democracy, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. 10. Europe, the European Union, and NIAS Newsletter, Spring 2002 Part 5: Proportional vs. Majoritarian Election Systems 11. Constitutional Choices for New Journal of Democracy, Winter 1991 12. Double-Checking the Evidence, Journal of Democracy, Summer 1991 13. Alternative Vote: A Realistic Alternative for South Africa?, Politikon, June 1991 14. Engineering: Limits and Possibilities, Chapter 7 of Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994 Part 6: Conceptual Links to the Fields of Political Behavior, Foreign Policy, and Methodology 15. Unequal Participation: Democracy's Unresolved Dilemma, American Political Science Review, March 1997 16. Types of Democracy and Generosity with Foreign Aid: An Indirect Test of the Democratic Peace Proposition (with Peter J. Bowman), in Erik Beukel, Kurt Klaudi Klausen, and Poul Erik Mouritzen, eds., Elites, Parties and Democracy, Odense, Denmark: Odense University Press, 1999 17. Comparative Politics and the Method, American Political Science Review, September 1971 Part 7: Conclusion 18. Conclusions: Power-Sharing and the Future of Democracy Part 8: Bibliography
Democracy · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Rule of law · Victory · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Systems and Governance · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Intellectuals
Transformational Leadership and Conflict Management in Zanzibar
When Democracy Bugs
Patterns of isolationism
Asymmetric decentralization, accommodation and separatist conflict
Regional ambassadors or state agents? Representing Welsh interests in the British Parliament and Cabinet
Are consociations bad for women? Assessing the effectiveness of gender quotas in Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia
Kleptocracy, authoritarianism and democracy as ideal types of political power
Legal and Political Contradictions in Kosovo
Legislators in Myanmar's First “Post-Junta” National Parliament (2010–2015)
Political marginalization of “Others” in consociational regimes
Maridhiano
Electoral rules of the authoritarian game
Governing ethnicity after genocide
Ethnic Composition and Electoral System Design
Is Presidentialism Necessarily Non-collegial
Power-Sharing Executives
Autonomy Impaired
Three Levels of Hybridisation Practices in Post-conflict Kosovo
The local and the legal
The path dependency of power‐sharing
Deliberating and Learning Contentious Issues
Institutional Patterns in the New Democracies of Asia
Ethnic identities and the dynamics of regional and sub-regional assertions in Jammu and Kashmir
The Thai Lao question
Reconciliation Isn’t Sexy”
Why small ethnic minorities participate in politics
Vom Extremtyp zum Normalfall? Die schweizerische Konsensusdemokratie im Wandel
The United States as a Plural Society
The Importance of Consociationalism for Twenty‐First Century Politics and Political Science
Pathways from Power-sharing
Challenging identity hierarchies
Beyond the core
Power to the people
Social media network homophily among political candidates in multilevel settings
Power-sharing between adoptability and durability insights from Lebanon and Iraq
Populism and parliamentary opposition parties
Consociationalism and the State
Institutional design and polarization. Do consensus democracies fare better in fighting polarization than majoritarian democracies
Direct democracy and subjective regime legitimacy in Europe
Veto power and power-sharing
Resilient to violence? One plus four hypotheses on the effect of democracy on domestic conflict
Consociational settlements in deeply divided societies
Power‐sharing coalitions in the Basque Country (1987–1998)
Participatory consociationalism? No, but South Tyrol's Autonomy Convention is evidence that power‐sharing can transform conflicts
The representation of the economic situation in Lebanese satires
Stability and Governability the Benign Effects of Party Dominance in South Africa
National in Form, Putinist in Content
The shift to consensus democracy and limits of institutional design in Asia
Electoral Law in Ireland
When Democratic Transition Leads to Anarchy
The democratic qualities of regulatory agencies
Patterns of democracy reconsidered
Parliamentarianism in Norwegian Regions
The single transferable vote and ethnic conflict
Democracy, ethnoicracy and consociational demoicracy
Minorities overlooked
Power-sharing
Democratic Performance of Parties and Legitimacy in Europe
Deliberative qualities in televised election debates
Democracy and Bureaucracy
Does Democracy Matter in Consociational Systems
Disputes over the 15-point agreement on normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia
The Procedural Value of Compromise
Veto Rights and Vital Interests
Estimating the Effect of Competitiveness on Turnout across Regime Types
The long-term consequences of power-sharing for ethnic salience
The Role of Domestic Opposition and International Justice Regimes in Peaceful Transitions of Power
Kosovo
What Do We Know about Power Sharing after 50 Years
The Use and Abuse of Veto Rights in Power-Sharing Systems
Westminster as Usual? Three Interpretations for the UK Democracy
The international mediation of power-sharing settlements
The Constitutionalization of Indigenous Group Rights, Traditional Political Institutions, and Customary Law
The Myth of Consociationalism? Conflict Reduction in Divided Societies
Verschweizerung , or
Serving Divided Communities
Patterns of Affective Polarization toward Parties and Leaders across the Democratic World
Choosing the path of austerity
The evolution of the government system of Northern Macedonia between “slithering” instability and permanent transition
Inclusion versus excellence
Fiscal decentralization and social stability in selected developing countries
Nigeria
Overcoming Identity Crisis
Land Rights Under Cultural Autonomy
Strategic Territorial Power-Sharing and Multi-Party Bargaining in Civil Wars
Deadly tensions
Consociationalism as a minimal benchmark for normative theory
La transformation du mouvement républicain irlandais des années 1980 à la problématique posée par le Brexit
From Dayton to Brussels via Tuzla
Ethnic mobilization and the impact of proportional and majoritarian electoral rules on voting behaviour
Consociational and rational coalitions
Which type of democracy performs best
The Consociational Democracy at Stake
The effects of district magnitude and social diversity on party system fragmentation in majoritarian systems
Between a republican and a Bengalee state
Mirage or Vision
The Politics of Association
Myanmar's 2020 Election
Retracted
Power‐Sharing in Deeply Divided Societies
| Unique citing works | 129 |
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| Citations per year | 7,17 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 52 |