consociationalism
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From consociational + -ism.
Noun
consociationalism (uncountable)
- Political consociation; government through guaranteed group representation.
- 1995, Hudson Meadwell, “8: Quebec Independence and Secession in the Developed West”, in Sukumar Periwal, editor, Notions of Nationalism, page 140:
- Where consociationalism and federalism overlay one another, moreover, the continuity of the latter depends on the stability of consociationalism.
- 2002, Thomas G. Mitchell, Indispensable Traitors: Liberal Parties in Settler Conflicts, page 133:
- The main weakness of consociationalism is that its main successful cases have taken place in Western Europe among groups that have not been in open military conflict with each other. It cannot be established that those societies would not have remained peaceful without consociationalism.
Translations
political consociation
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