Political Accommodation for Democratic Stability in the Ethnically Divided and Post-Soviet Georgia
Abstract
The prospected case study attempts to investigate causal relationship between democratic stability and political accommodation in a multiethnic post-Soviet country. For this aim, the major focus of the thesis is to explore those conflict resolution approaches that can ensure better political accommodation leading to more democratic stability in post-Soviet Georgia. By focusing mostly on the last twenty-five-year Georgia’s post-Soviet political dynamics, conclusions drawn from the preliminary analysis demonstrate that compared to centralizing and majoritarian tactics employed thus far by the Georgia’s state since the restoration of its independence, political accommodation through consensual approaches have a better promising potential for stabilizing democracy in Georgia as a result of better accommodating diversities and resolve peacefully the existing ethno-territorial disputes.References
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Works Cited
Baglione, L. A., 2012. Writing a Research Paperin Political Science: A Practical Guide to Inquiry, Structure, and Methods. London: SAGE.
Barrington, L. et al., 2010. Part III: Political Structures: Chapter 6: Political Systems and Their Rules. In: Comparative Politics: structures&choices. Boston: WADSWORTH CENGAGE Learning, pp. 189-230.
Barry, B., 1975. Review article: Political accommodation and Consociational Democracy. British Journal of Political Science, Volume 5, pp. 477-505.
Dahl, R. a., 2015. On Democracy. 2nd ed. New Haven&London: yale University Press.
Barrington, L. et al., 2010. Part III: Political Structures: Chapter 6: Political Systems and Their Rules. 2. In: Comparative Politics: structures&choices. Boston: WADSWORTH CENGAGE Learning, pp. 189-230.
Barry, B., 1975. Review article: Political accommodation and Consociational Democracy. 3. British Journal of Political Science, Volume 5, pp. 477-505.
Dahl, R. a., 2015. 4. On Democracy. 2nd ed. New Haven&London: yale University Press.
Deschouwer, K. & Martina, T., 2012. Elite Behavior and Elite Communication in a Divided Society: 5. the Belgian federal coalition formation of 2007. Journal of Language and Politics, pp. 500-520.
George, a. L. & Bennett, a., 2005. 6. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. London: MIT Press.
Lijphart, A., 1968. The Spirit of Accommodation. In: 7. The Politics of Accommodation: Pluralism and Democracy in the Netherlands. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, pp. 103-122.
Lijphart, A., 2004. Constituional Design for Divided Societies. 8. Journal of Democarcy, pp. 96-109.
Lijphart, A., 2008. Consociational democracy. In: 9. Thinking About Democracy: Power-sharing and majority rule in theory and practice. New York: Routledge, pp. 25-41.
Lijphart, A., 2012. 10. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries. 2nd ed. New Haven&London: yale University Press.
O’Flynn, I., 2010. Deliberative Democracy, the Public Interest and the Consociational Model. 11. Political Studies, pp. 572-589.
O’Leary, J. M. a. B., 2009. Power shared after the deaths of thousends. In: 12. Consociational Theory. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 15-84.
yakinthou, C., 2009. How Close Were They, Really? In: 13. Political Settlements in Divided Societies: Consociationalims and Cyprus. new York: Palgrave Macmillan , pp. 95-122.
Works Cited
Baglione, L. A., 2012. Writing a Research Paperin Political Science: A Practical Guide to Inquiry, Structure, and Methods. London: SAGE.
Barrington, L. et al., 2010. Part III: Political Structures: Chapter 6: Political Systems and Their Rules. In: Comparative Politics: structures&choices. Boston: WADSWORTH CENGAGE Learning, pp. 189-230.
Barry, B., 1975. Review article: Political accommodation and Consociational Democracy. British Journal of Political Science, Volume 5, pp. 477-505.
Dahl, R. a., 2015. On Democracy. 2nd ed. New Haven&London: yale University Press.
Published
2018-02-05
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SHAVTVALADZE, Mikheil.
Political Accommodation for Democratic Stability in the Ethnically Divided and Post-Soviet Georgia.
Eastern Europe Regional Studies, [S.l.], feb. 2018.
ISSN 2587-456X.
Available at: <https://test.psage.tsu.ge/index.php/Easternstudies/article/view/78>. Date accessed: 21 sep. 2024.
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Keywords
Georgia, political accommodation, democratic stability, consociationalism, integration, majoritarianism
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