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Power-sharing and the quality of democracy
Title / Series / Name
European Political Science Review
Publication Volume
13
Publication Issue
4
Pages
Authors
Editors
Keywords
Consociationalism
Democracy
Liberal rights
Power-sharing
Quality of democracy
Sociology and Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
Democracy
Liberal rights
Power-sharing
Quality of democracy
Sociology and Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/28309
Abstract
Mounting evidence indicates that power-sharing supports transitions to democracy. However, the resulting quality of democracy remains understudied. Given the increasing global spread of power-sharing, this is a crucial oversight, as prominent critiques accuse it of a number of critical deficiencies. The present article advances this literature in two ways. First, it offers a comprehensive discussion of how power-sharing affects the quality of democracy, going beyond specific individual aspects of democracy. It argues that power-sharing advances some of these aspects while having drawbacks for others. Second, it offers the first systematic, large-N analysis of the frequently discussed consequences of power-sharing for the quality of democracy. It relies on a dataset measuring the quality of democracy in 70 countries worldwide, combining it with new fine-grained data for institutional power-sharing. The results indicate that power-sharing is a complex institutional model which privileges a particular set of democratic actors and processes, while deemphasizing others.
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Place of Publication
Type
Journal article
Date
2021-11-07
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ISBN
Identifiers
10.1017/S1755773921000151