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Subnational competitive authoritarianism and power-sharing in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) as mentioned in this paper showed that measures of democracy conceal an uneven subnational distribution of autocratization, and that there has been limited resiliency to the demands of the majority.Abstract:
Incremental democratic decline is evident in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), but measures of democracy conceal an uneven subnational distribution of autocratization. So far there has been limited res...read more
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Democracy and Its Critics
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The vicious circle of corrosive capital, authoritarian tendencies and state capture in the Western Balkans
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The elephant in the room: illiberal politics in Montenegro
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Power sharing: Empirical and Normative Challenges
TL;DR: Consociational arrangements feature as the institutional prescription of choice in the internationally mediated settlements that follow violent ethnic conflict as mentioned in this paper, and the rise of consociational theory in international mediation has been studied extensively.
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Patterns of democracy : government forms and performance in thirty-six countries
TL;DR: This article examined 36 democracies from 1945 to 1996 and found that consensual systems stimulate economic growth, control inflation and unemployment, and limit budget deficits, and that majority rule works best in most democracies.
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Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War
Steven Levitsky,Lucan A. Way +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008, based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia.