Democracy In Divided Societies: Electoral Engineering For Conflict Management
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| Originally published | 2001 |
| Authors | Ben Reilly |
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| ID | 2532372 |
About Democracy In Divided Societies: Electoral Engineering For Conflict Management
Democracy is inherently difficult in societies divided along deep ethnic cleavages. Elections in such societies will often encourage 'centrifugal' politics which reward extremist ethnic appeals, zero-sum political behaviour and ethnic conflict, and which consequently often lead to the breakdown of democracy. . . .