The Favourable Factors For Consociational Democracy: A Review

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dc.contributor.authorBOGAARDS, Matthijs
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-09T15:11:08Z
dc.date.available2011-05-09T15:11:08Z
dc.date.issued1998
dc.description.abstractThe favourable factors for the establishment and maintenance of consociational democracy are among the most contested elements of consociationalism. The debate concerns both the favourable factors themselves and their status. The debate over the former is provoked by the inductive character; the debate over the latter can be traced back to an unresolved conflict between deterministic and voluntaristic elements in consociational theory. What is at stake is a trade-off between the empirical explanatory and predictive power of the consociational model on the one hand and its normative usefulness on the other. Shifting the focus from contextual variables to a theory of elite behavior may present a way out of the current stalemate. This would be in line with the recent interest in crafting democracies.
dc.identifier.citationEuropean Journal of Political Research, 1998, 33, 4, 475-496
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1475-6765.00392
dc.identifier.endpage496
dc.identifier.issn0304-4130
dc.identifier.issue4
dc.identifier.startpage475
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/16925
dc.identifier.volume33
dc.titleThe Favourable Factors For Consociational Democracy: A Review
dc.typeArticle
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