The political reforms adopted in the 1989 Taif Agreement created a veritable postwar
paradox: a more balanced consociational power-sharing arrangement led to a bigger, more …

The article looks at the legacy of consociationalism in Lebanon with the aim of illuminating
some insights on the linkages between power-sharing and conflict resolution in the post …

Two schools dominate the literature on democracy in divided societies: consociationalism
and centripetalism. The first advocates group representation and power sharing while the …

Power‐sharing is a leading institutional strategy for the management of ethnic conflict. Yet its
performance is uneven. It often delivers a peace dividend: stopping violence, avoiding …

How does sectarianism intersect with war memories to subvert the political balance of power
in postwar Lebanon? This article examines this complex dynamic along two levels. On one …

How do consociations craft their asylum policy, and how do they deal with the rights of
“others”? Research has started to explore the relationship between consociational …

This paper explores the processes whereby organizers of non-sectarian mobilizations frame
grievances against the sectarian system in Lebanon. While previous studies on non …

The aim of this special feature is to reflect theoretically and normatively on consociational
power‐sharing, take stock of its empirical record in Lebanon and Iraq, and interrogate its …

The Mediterranean has historically developed into a continuum of confiicts, connections,
and entanglements (Tucker, 2019). Within this continuum, spaces of solidarity but also of …

Assuming the primacy of established patterns of bargaining over the formal ones, in
transitional, unstable settings—well-known to the power-sharing systems—informal …