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POWER SHARING
New Challenges for Divided Societies
Edited by Ian O�Flynn and David Russell
ISBN: 0745322921 Paperback
Price: �19.99 / $32.50 / �27.00
ISBN: 074532293X Hardback
Price: �60.00 / $90.00 / �82.50
Publication Date: October 2005
Pages: 240pp Illustration: 3 figs Size: DEMY (215x135mm)
It is widely assumed that internal power-sharing is a viable democratic means
of managing inter-communal conflict in divided societies. In principle, this
form of government enables communities that have conflicting identities to
remedy longstanding patterns of discrimination and to co-exist peacefully. Key
arguments in support of this view can be found in the highly influential works
of Arend Lijphart and Donald Horowitz.
New Challenges for Power-Sharing seeks to explore the unintended consequences
of power-sharing for the communities themselves, their individual members,and
for others in society. More specifically, it is distinctive in questioning
explicitly whether power sharing: perpetuates inter-communal conflict by
institutionalising difference at the political level; inhibits conflict
resolution by encouraging extremism; stifles internal diversity; and fails to
leave sufficient space for individual autonomy.
This book not only provides a theoretical exploration and critique of these
questions, but comprehensively examines specific test cases where power-sharing
institutions have been established, including in Northern Ireland, Belgium,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and Lebanon. It also explores such issues as the
role of political leaders, human rights instruments, the position of women, and
the prospects for reconciliation within such societies.
Furthermore it provides a detailed set of policy recommendations to meet the
challenges of transition in deeply-divided societies.
Ian O�Flynn is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Essex and Visiting
Scholar at Harvard.
David Russell is currently Research Associate at the Centre for Lebanese
Studies,Oxford University.
Introduction: New Challenges for Power Sharing
Ian O�Flynn ((Lecturer in Politics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
and David Russell (Policy Officer at the Northern Ireland Community Relations
Council, Research Associate, Democratic Dialogue, Belfast and Research
Associate, The Centre for Lebanese Studies, University of Oxford)
Part 1. Conceptual Issues
1. Democratic Values and Power Sharing
Ian O�Flynn
2. Integration and Autonomy: Minority rights and Political Accommodation
Tom Hadden (teaches human rights and conflict resolution at Queen�s University
Belfast as a part-time Professor of Law)
3. Breaking Antagonism? Political Leadership in Divided Societies
Duncan Morrow (Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Ireland Community
Relations Council)
4. Electoral Systems Design and Power-Sharing Regimes
Stefan Wolff (Professor of Political Science at the University of Bath)
Part 2. Case Studies
5. The Failure of Moderate Politics: The Case of Northern Ireland
Anthony Oberschall (Emeritus Professor at the University of North
Carolina,Chapel Hill) and L. Kendall Palmer ((Lecturer in Politics at the
University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
6. The Unintended Consequences of Consociational Federalism: The Case of Belgium
Kris Deschouwer (Professor of Politics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
7. Partial Implementation,Partial Success: The Case of Macedonia
Florian Bieber (Senior Non-resident Research Associate of the European Centre
for Minority Issues,Belgrade. He teaches at Central European University
(Budapest),the University of Sarajevo and the University of Bologna)
8. The Dichotomy of International Mediation and Leader Intransigence: The Case
of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Marie-Jo�lle Zahar (Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Universit�
de Montr�al)
9. Power Sharing and National Reconciliation: The Case of Lebanon
David Russell and Nadim Shehadi (Director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies,an
independent academic research institution affiliated to the Middle East Centre
at St Antony's College,Oxford University)
Part 3. Deepening Democracy
10. Overlapping Identities: Power Sharing and Women�s Rights
Rachel Rebouch� (Juris Doctorate Candidate at Harvard Law School) and Kate
Fearon (founder member of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, an adviser to
its Northern Ireland Peace Talks negotiation team and adviser to its Assembly
Members in the First Northern Ireland Assembly)
11. Below and Beyond Power Sharing: Relational Structures across Institutions
and Civil Society
Manlio Cinalli (Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute,
Florence, and Research Fellow at the University of Leeds)
12. The Challenge of Reconciliation in Post-conflict Societies:
Definitions,Problems and Proposals
Brandon Hamber (Research Associate of Democratic Dialogue, Belfast) and Gr�inne
Kelly (Research Associate of Democratic Dialogue, Belfast)
13. Towards a Civic Culture: Implications for Power Sharing Policy Makers
Robin Wilson (Director of the Belfast-based think tank Democratic Dialogue)
List of Contributors
Index
www.plutobooks.com
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