Party Elites in Divided Societies: Political Parties in Consociational Democracy (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science)

Party Elites in Divided Societies: Political Parties in Consociational Democracy (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science)

by KurtRichardLuther (Editor), KrisDeschouwer (Editor), Kris Deschouwer (Editor), Kurt Richard Luther (Editor)

Synopsis

Working from the basis of Arend Lijphart's 1968 work on divided societies, the authors go on to look at such cultures and subcultures thirty years on, bringing in new evidence and analysis to bear on the issue. They also examine the essential role of party politics within and between these ^D< consociational democracies^D> , framing comparisons with a number of countries from Belgium to Israel.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 26 Aug 1999

ISBN 10: 0415201276
ISBN 13: 9780415201278

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Lijphardt's theory of consociational democracy and consensus democracy, i.e. democracy in societies with dep sociopolitical and cultural fragmentation (e.g. Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland), is one of the most important contributions to postwar democratic theory. CHOICE, September 2000, Volume 28, Number 1.