I am glad to see Dr Omar Shahabudin McDoom take seriously the vexing problem of ethnic voting in his two-part series under the Diaspora column. He is an expert in conflict studies. Therefore, he has ...

Despite the so called breakthrough in bringing the Palestinians and Israelis to the negotiating table again, there is little hope that it will put an end of the conflict in this tiny geographical area ...

I write with reference to Dr Henry Jeffrey’s column, ‘Guyana: bi-communalism in transition’ (SN, Aug 20). Dr Jeffrey says: “… Guyana is a bi-communal society that is very difficult to manage because ...

The goals of consociationalism are governmental stability, the perseverance of power-sharing arrangements, the survival of democracy and the avoidance of internal strife. In consociational societies ...

In January, India’s Parliament passed a constitutional amendment that would allow for a 10% quota for upper castes in educational institutes and government employment. The move ended a longstanding 50 ...

Jan Pospisil reviews Mediating Power-Sharing: Devolution and Consociationalism in Deeply Divided Societies, by Feargal Cochrane, Neophytos Loizides and Thibaud Bodson. Please wait while we verify your ...

The poor performance of our successive parliaments when it comes to coming up with legislation that helps all Pakistanis regardless of gender, religion or ethnic origin is self-evident. If you take ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This is a study of cleavages and issues in the Belgian parliament designed to assess the relative importance of ideological conflicts and of ...

BEIRUT: Lebanon's sectarian-based political system has caused it serious economic loss, to the tune of almost $24,000 in annual per-capita income, and prevented it from achieving a better democracy, ...

With the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland seemingly entered a new era of peace and prosperity. “There is a well of economic goodwill and potential inward investment out there ...