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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Joanne McEvoy and Brendan O'Leary Klappentext Joanne McEvoy is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Aberdeen and former Sawyer Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Brendan O'Leary is Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and former Senior Advisor on Power Sharing to the Standby Team of the Mediation Support Unit of the United Nations! with extensive practical advisory experience on power sharing in Northern Ireland! Somalia! Nepal! Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa! Sudan! and Iraq. He has authored and coedited twenty books! including The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq! also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Zusammenfassung This volume considers an array of power-sharing systems in divided cities and states, with critical evaluations of their merits and defects as well as explanations of their emergence, maintenance, and failings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Places: An Advocate's Introduction Brendan O'Leary Part I. Power Sharing and Electoral Systems Chapter 2. Electoral Rules and Ethnic Representation and Accommodation: Combining Social Choice and Electoral System Perspectives Bernard Grofman Chapter 3. The Track Record of Centripetalism in Deeply Divided Places Allison McCulloch Chapter 4. Electoral Engineering for a Stalled Federation: A Countrywide Electoral District for Belgium's Federal Parliament Kris Deschouwer and Philippe van Parijs Part II. Historical and Conceptual Forays on Power Sharing Chapter 5. A Theory of Accommodation Versus Conflict: With Special Reference to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Ronald Wintrobe Chapter 6. The Success of Religion as a Source for Compromise in Divided Empires: Ottoman and Safavid, Past and Present Benjamin Braude Chapter 7. Geopolitics and the Long-Term Construction of Democracy Randall Collins Chapter 8. Courts, Constitutions, and the Limits of Majoritarianism Samuel Issacharoff Part III. Contemporary Power-Sharing Questions Chapter 9. A Revised Theory of Federacy and a Case Study of Civil War Termination in Aceh, Indonesia Alfred Stepan Chapter 10. We Forbid! The Mutual Veto and Power-Sharing Democracy Joanne McEvoy Chapter 11. Northern Ireland: Power Sharing, Contact, Identity, and Leadership Ed Cairns Chapter 12. Public Opinion and Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Places Colin Irwin Chapter 13. The Balkans: The Promotion of Power Sharing by Outsiders Florian Bieber Chapter 14. Governing Polarized Cities Scott A. Bollens Chapter 15. Power Sharing in Kirkuk: The Need for Compromise Liam Anderson Chapter 16. Power Sharing: An Advocate's Conclusion Brendan O'Leary List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments ...
