Merdzanovic Democracy by Decree

Prospects and Limits of Imposed Consociational Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-8382-6792-0
Verlag: ibidem
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 436 Seiten

The introduction of consociational power sharing as a post-war political system has become one of the international community´s preferred post-conflict devices. In situations where warring polities are internally divided by ethnic, religious, linguistic, or national identity, consociationalism guarantees the inclusion of all groups in the political process and prevents a ‘tyranny´ of the majority over one or more minorities. However, if international actors keep intervening in the political process, the advantages of consociationalism are turned upside down. In this exceptional book, Adis Merdzanovic develops a theoretical and empirical approach to understanding consociational democracies that include external intervention. Using the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the consociational Dayton Peace Agreement ended the three-year war between Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks twenty years ago, it elaborates on the different approaches used in the past and gives practical recommendations for future state-building exercises by the international community.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Merdzanovic, Adis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Über Autor(innen)

Adis Merdzanovic is a Junior Research Fellow at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He graduated from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and was previously a Swiss Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C.