Tag: consociationalism
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A Country with Two Rival Presidents: Is it Time for Afghanistan to Formally Move to Consociationalism?
–Shamshad Pasarlay, Herat University School of Law and Political Science. Email: shamshad.bahar[at]yahoo.com One of the daunting puzzles for scholars interested in constitutional design is how to craft a democratic constitution for a deeply divided society.[1] The challenge is to form a system of government in which all religious, ethnic and linguistic groups of a deeply…
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Review of Courts and Consociations, by Christopher McCrudden and Brendan O’Leary (OUP 2013)
—Reviewed by Tom Ginsburg In its 2009 decision in the case of Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia, the European Court of Human Rights found in favor of two applicants who challenged the provision of the Bosnian Constitution restricting certain political offices to three “constituent peoples”.