Safeguarding Democracy
Powersharing and Democratic Survival
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3579779 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin At Graham (0000-0003-0468-7535, Southern California University for Professional Studies, corresponding author), Benjamin A T Graham, Michael K Miller (0009-0004-4466-9176, George Washington University, corresponding author), Kaare W Strøm (University of California San Diego, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 686-704 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055417000326 |
| OpenAlex | W3121380943 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 75 |
Democracy is often fragile, especially in states recovering from civil conflict. To protect emerging democracies, many scholars and practitioners recommend political powersharing institutions, which aim to safeguard minority group interests. Yet there is little empirical research on whether powersharing promotes democratic survival, and some concern that it limits electoral accountability. To fill this gap, we differentiate between inclusive, dispersive, and constraining powersharing institutions and analyze their effects on democratic survival from 1975 to 2015 using a global dataset. We find sharp distinctions across types of powersharing and political context. Inclusive powersharing, such as ethnic quotas, promotes democratic survival only in post-conflict settings. In contrast, dispersive institutions such as federalism tend to destabilize post-conflict democracies. Only constraining powersharing consistently facilitates democratic survival regardless of recent conflict. Institution-builders and international organizations should therefore prioritize institutions that constrain leaders, including independent judiciaries, civilian control of the armed forces, and constitutional protections of individual and group rights
Accountability · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Federalism · Institution · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Safeguarding · Sociology · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration · Turkey's Politics and Society
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Untangling territorial self-governance – new typology and data
Divided Opposition, Fragmented Statebuilding
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Constitutional renewals
Inequality and growth in the twenty‐first century
Political decentralisation and the spatial distribution of infant mortality in less developed nations
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Identity concessions in ethnic civil wars
Populism’s Challenge to International Institutions
Parliamentary initiative in authoritarian regimes
Amending legislatures in authoritarian regimes
Leviathan’s Latent Dimensions
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
Self‐Ruleand Intrastate Conflict Risk in Divided Societies
Executive Turnover and the Investigation of Former Leaders in New Democracies
Urban Concentration and Civil War
Sovereignty Rupture as a Central Concept in Quantitative Measures of Civil War
New Democracies and Commitment to Human Rights Treaties
What Do We Know about Power Sharing after 50 Years
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Countering autocratization
The political economy of power-sharing
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A Closer Look at the Limits of Consociationalism
The Unintended Consequences of Democracy Promotion
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Authoritarian Power Sharing
Political parties matter
De jure powersharing 1975-2019
The two faces of power-sharing
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Constitutional Origins and Liberal Democracy
Can Courts in Nondemocracies Deter Election Fraud? De Jure Judicial Independence, Political Competition, and Election Integrity
Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties
Polyarchy
Does Peacekeeping Work?
Making Democratic Governance Work
Politician’s Dilemma
Why Nations Fail
Power sharing and international mediation in ethnic conflicts
Democracy and the Market
The Formation of National Party Systems
Democracy in Plural Societies
The Fate of Young Democracies
From War to Democracy
Patterns of democracy
Driving Democracy
Resort to War, 1816-2007
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation
Unobservable Selection and Coefficient Stability
Power sharing, peace and democracy
Ethnofederalism and the Mismanagement of Conflicting Nationalisms
The Power-Sharing Event Dataset (PSED)
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Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes
The Future of Freedom-Illiberal democracy at home and abroad
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Constitutions and Commitment
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The Art of the Possible
How “Free” is Free Riding in Civil Wars
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The Myth of Consociationalism? Conflict Reduction in Divided Societies
Comparative Democratization
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Testing the Effects of Independent Judiciaries on the Likelihood of Democratic Backsliding
Institutionalizing Peace
Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraint
The Problem with Negotiated Settlements to Ethnic Civil Wars
Peace and Power Sharing in Africa
The hidden costs of power-sharing
Ethnic Politics and Armed Conflict
Armed Conflicts, 1946-2011
Democracy, Development, and the International System
Territorial Autonomy in the Shadow of Conflict
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Reevaluating the Middle-Class Protest Paradigm
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The Perils of Power-Sharing
| Unique citing works | 43 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 43 |