Essay, History and Political Science
Lijphart’s Model From Dusk Till Dawn: Reminder for the Consociational Theory
Project description
How useful are the theoretical ideas of Lijphart (1977) in explaining and analyzing the political systems to which it has been applied? Discuss this question on the basis of the four articles that were provided in the week 3 of the course, and at least one additional article that you find yourself.
The other four articles:
Matthew J. Gabel (1998). The Endurance of Supranational Governance: A Consociational Interpretation of the European Union, Comparative Politics, 30 (4), pp. 463-475.
John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary (2006). Consociational Theory, Northern Ireland’s Conflict, and its Agreement. What Consociationalists Can Learn from Northern Ireland, Government and Opposition 41(1), pp. 43-63.
Katharine Adeney (2008). Constitutional Design and the Political Salience of “Community” Identity in Afghanistan: Prospects for the Emergence of Ethnic Conflicts in the Post-Taliban Era, Asian Survey, 48(4), pp. 535-557.
James Hamill (2003). A Disguised Surrender? South Africa’s Negotiated Settlement and the Politics of Conflict Resolution, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 14(3), pp. 17–18.
Additional Sources:
Kenneth McCrae (ed), Consociational Democracies: Political Accommodation in
Segmented Democracies, (1974): 2-27, 70-97
James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel Posner, and Jeremy Weinstein, “Is ethnic conflict
inevitable? Parting ways over nationalism and separatism,” Foreign Affairs , July-August 2008, pp.
138-141
Steven Ian Wilkinson, “India, Consociational Theory, and Ethnic Violence,” Asian Survey Sept 2000, vol 40, no. 5, p. 767 ff.
Arend Lijphart Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty Six Countries Yale University Press: Chapter 8 pp 143-170
Arend Lijphart, “Constitutional Choices for New Democracies,” in Larry Diamond and
Marc Plattner,eds., The Global Resurgence of Democracy (2nd Edition) (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996),pp. 162-174
Arend Lijphart, “The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Consociational Interpretation.”
American Political Science Review 90, No. 2 (June 1996): 258-268