Driving Democracy: Do Power Sharing Institutions Work?
Proposals for power-sharing constitutions remain controversial,as highlighted by current debates in Iraq,Afghanistan,Nepal,and Sudan. This book updates and refines the theory of consociationalism,taking account of the flood of contemporary innovations in power-sharing institutions that have occurred worldwide. The book classifies and compares four types of political institutions: the electoral system,parliamentary or presidential executives,unitary or federal states,and the structure and independenc