Consociational Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6233069 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rudy B Andeweg (0000-0003-4451-441X, Department of Political Science, Leyden University, Leiden, 2300 RB the Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 509-536 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.polisci.3.1.509 |
| OpenAlex | W4243822725 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 111 |
| References cited | 43 |
Consociationalist theory served initially as an explanation of political stability in a few deeply divided European democracies. It argued that in these countries, the destabilizing effects of subcultural segmentation are neutralized at the elite level by embracing non-majoritarian mechanisms for conflict resolution. The theory was extended as new consociational democracies were discovered, as the related but broader concept of “consensus democracy” was introduced, and as a normative component was added, recommending consociational engineering as the most promising way to achieve stable democracy in strongly segmented societies. Consociationalism has always been controversial, but rather than one great debate about its validity, there have been many small debates about the countries, the concepts, the causes, and the consequences associated with consociationalism. These debates can become more fruitful if consociational theory is formulated less inductively and at a higher level of abstraction, and if the critics of consociationalism focus more on its principles and less on the operationalizations provided by its most important theorist, Arend Lijphart. The erosion of social cleavages in many consociational democracies raises the question of whether the very logic of consociationalism should lead to a prescription of more adversarial politics in those countries
Democracy · Economics · Elite · Law and economics · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Political Systems and Governance
Confederal and Consociational Futures
“No. Please Understand”
The Making, Meaning(s), and Tasks of the 1998 Agreement
A Tract of Time between War and Peace
An Experiment in Coercive Consociation
Conceptual Conspectus
The Long Negotiation
Terminology
Democracy, Professions and Societal Constitutionalism
Consociationalism (Consociational Democracy)
Consociationalism
Majority Rule vs. Consensus
Consociational democracy, citizenship and the role of the EU in Kosovo’s contested state-building
The Post-War Power Sharing and the Legal Politicisation of the Congolese Public Administration
Overcoming Identity Crisis
El mito de Sísifo
The left approach to social diversity
Somalia’s federal experiment
The Belfast Agreement and the Limits of Consociationalism
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine
Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science
Power Sharing and Democracy in Post-Civil War States
Can Power-Sharing Reforms Mitigate Subnational Autocratization in Autonomous Regions? Experimental Evidence from Gagauzia
For the sake of Venezuela
Political marginalization of “Others” in consociational regimes
Resource management and joint-planning in fragmented societies
The implications of bifurcated citizenship and access to land in Africa
Switzerland's Covid‐19 policy response
The False Promise of Liberal Consociations
The Lack of Circulation of Elites in Lebanon
Institutional Commitment Problems and Regional Autonomy
Power sharing, peace and democracy
Political Contest and Oppositional Voices in Postconflict Democracy
Statebuilding in Divided Societies
Accommodating Liberal Consociations
Cross-partisanship and the vulnerability democracy
Don’t call me a leader, but I am one
Ethnic Accommodation and Electoral Rules in Ethno-Geographically Segregated Societies
Bringing the Global Political Economy Back In
Democracy always comes first’
EPRDF’s ‘menu of institutional manipulations’ and the 2015 regional elections
The State of Consociationalism in Lebanon
Beyond “unwinding”
Power Sharing Without Democracy
Iceland and the Nordic Model of Consensus Democracy
Ethnicity, political survival, and the exchange of nationalist foreign policy
Policymaking in a plural society
Stable instability
The Frailties of Lebanese Democracy
Ethnic party competition beyond the segmented market
Challenges in conflict management in multi-ethnic states – the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and Serbia and Montenegro
So close yet so far
Dynamics in the Dutch policy advisory system
The long-term consequences of power-sharing for ethnic salience
A three-legged race
Which type of democracy performs best
From consociational consciousness to majoritarian myth
The Role of Government in Managing Intercultural Relations
To rely or not to rely on common sense? Introducing critical Realism's insights to social network analysis
Governance and leadership in education policy making and school development in a divided society
The Belfast Agreement and the Politics of Consociationalism
Sport, the Northern Ireland peace process, and the politics of identity
A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume III
On the Politicisation of the European Union
Macro-Political Determinants of Educational Inequality between Migrants and Natives in Western Europe
What Kind of Democracy Is Emerging in Eastern Europe
Consociational Interpretations of the European Union
Between the hammer of globalization and the anvil of nationalism
Reassessing classification of Kazakhstan’s ethnic management model
And the peace goes on? Consociational democracy and Belgian politics in the twenty-first century
Assessing actually-existing trajectories of EU politicisation
Self‐Ruleand Intrastate Conflict Risk in Divided Societies
Transforming Unitary States into Federations
Legislative Behaviour in the Northern Ireland Assembly, 2007–11
What are the Consequences of Consociationalism for Sexual Minorities? An analysis of Liberal and Corporate Consociationalism and Sexual Minorities in Northern Ireland and Lebanon
Satisfaction with Democracy in Multi-ethnic Countries
Making or Breaking Kosovo
How do western democracies cope with the challenge of societal diversity
Radicalizing electoral system effects on support for nationalist hardliners inSerbia
Beyond ethno‐nationalism
Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments
How much power do oppositions have? Comparing the opportunity structures of parliamentary oppositions in 21 democracies
Power Sharing in Postconflict Societies
Power Shift or Paradigm Shift? China's Rise and Asia's Emerging Security Order
The Political Origins of the UN Security Council's Ability to Legitimize the Use of Force
European Integration as Compromise
What Do We Know about Power Sharing after 50 Years
Power-sharing and the quality of democracy
Between entrenchment, reform and transformation
Political power sharing in post-conflict democracies
From Stormont to Strasbourg – militant democracy in consociations
A Closer Look at the Limits of Consociationalism
Telling Stories about Conflict
The Limits of Electoral Engineering in Divided Societies
Power Sharing
Does Party-System Fragmentation Affect the Quality of Democracy
Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraint
Alpine Troubles
The Political Side of Consociationalism Reconsidered
Switzerland on the Road from a Consociational to a Centrifugal Democracy
Polyarchy
Democracies
Democracy as Paradox
Rational Legitimacy
Surviving Without Governing
Patterns of democracy
A Democratic South Africa
Capitalism and its future
Consociational Theory
The European Community and the state
Democracy and symbiosis in the European Union
The Endurance of Supranational Governance
From the politics of accommodation to adversarial politics in the Netherlands
Ethnic groups in conflict
The Consociational Democracy Theme
Lijphart, Lakatos, and Consociationalism
South Africa
Congruence between Citizens and Policymakers in Two Visions of Liberal Democracy
Political Integration and Political Stability
The correlates of consensus democracy and the puzzle of Dutch politics
The disorderly universe of consociational democracy
The Limits to Coercive Consociationalism in Northern Ireland
Democratic Political Systems
The Consociational Model and Its Dangers
The Conditions for Consociational Democracy
Consociational Democracy in Switzerland
The Consociational Theory and Beyond
Consociational Democracy in Crisis
Consociational Democracy
Typologies of Democratic Systems
The Political Kingdom in Uganda
Consociational Democracy
Changing Models of Party Organization and Party Democracy
Stability in Deeply Divided Societies
The Puzzle of Indian Democracy
Democracy Without Consensus. Communalism and Political Stability in Malaysia
| Unique citing works | 111 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,63 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 111 |