Civil society and democratic participation: theme and variations
In: Bürger und Demokratie in Ost und West: Studien zur politischen Kultur und zum politischen Prozess ; Festschrift für Hans-Dieter Klingemann, S. 245-259
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In: Bürger und Demokratie in Ost und West: Studien zur politischen Kultur und zum politischen Prozess ; Festschrift für Hans-Dieter Klingemann, S. 245-259
In: Bürger und Demokratie in Ost und West, S. 245-259
In: Central European political science review: quarterly of Central European Political Science Association ; CEPSR, Band 3, Heft 7, S. 6-15
ISSN: 1586-4197
In: American journal of international law, Band 95, Heft 1, S. 86-101
ISSN: 0002-9300
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 95, Heft 1, S. 86-101
ISSN: 2161-7953
The central question of postconflict societies remains political: how to construct a stable form of domestic power sharing and governance. Adversaries mutually exhausted by conflict will still set an adequate degree of influence and voice in future political arrangements as the price of terminating the conflict. Where adversarial identities have become all-encompassing or the war has gone on for too long, the only available solutions may be more radical, including autonomy or partition.The task of international mediators is to help the parties assess the available forms of sharing power. In the dominant view of the United Nations community and international financial institutions, the available choice set is the various forms of representative government—for both idealistic and practical reasons. Democracy has become the dominant political philosophy of the multilateral community, even where it is not always observed in practice, and its breadth of participation may be likeliest to placate former adversaries. But any social engineer or planner must also take into account the practical problems that democracy will probably encounter in the aftermath of conflict, including the conditions necessary for its stability and prestige. In addition, the portfolio of democracy has varied structures that may give greater confidence to both sides and persuade the combatants to lay down their arms.
In: Government & opposition: an international journal of comparative politics, Band 21, S. 56-75
ISSN: 0017-257X
Evolution of contemporary Spanish parties and growth of partisanship among Spanish voters; conference paper. Results in three Spanish elections, 1977-82.
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 40-43
ISSN: 1537-5935
In: Administration & society, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 179-204
ISSN: 1552-3039
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 28-32
ISSN: 1537-5935
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 21-28
ISSN: 1537-5935
In: Administration & society, Band 6, S. 179-204
ISSN: 0095-3997
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 7, Heft 4, S. 399-402
ISSN: 1537-5935