Power-Sharing in the Global South

Patterns, Practices and Potentials

Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif, Soeren Keil, Allison McCulloch

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9783031457203
• eBook ISBN:
  9783031457210
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Comparative Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Power-sharing serves as a popular conflict resolution device at war's end. Yet, the performance record of such arrangements is highly variable, sometimes leading to peace and stability and at other times to immobilism and institutional collapse. This book explores the adoption, function, and dissolution of power-sharing arrangements across the Global South, including case studies of Colombia, Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Iraq, and others to make sense of this mixed record. Authors identify a range of contextual factors as well as significant variations in the institutional rules and their meaning across the cases that help to explain divergent power-sharing outcomes. Emphasis throughout the chapters is placed on system adaptability for power-sharing success.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction: Power-Sharing in the Global South
• 2. Power-Sharing in the Global South in Comparative Perspective: Patterns and Practices
• 3. The Idea of Power-Sharing in South Africa’s Transition from Apartheid to Constitutional Democracy (1983–1993)
• 4. Power-Sharing in Colombia: Bipartisanship, Leftist Insurgencies, and Beyond
• 5. Power-Sharing Processes in Post-Arab Spring Tunisia: From Elite Compromise to Presidential Monopolization
• 6. The Limits of Territorial Arrangements and the Relevance of Consociationalism for India
• 7. Power-Sharing in Nigeria’s Divided Society: Structures, Conflicts and Challenges
• 8. Power-Sharing in Malaysia: Coalition Politics and the Social Contract
• 9. The Paradox of Power-Sharing in Mauritius
• 10. Lebanon: Consociationalism Between Immobilism and Reform
• 11. Consociational Democracy Without Minority Veto? Power-sharing in Ethiopia
• 12. The Power-Sharing Arrangements in Iraq: The Instability Within
• 13. “The Unloved Child Matures”: Power-Sharing in Burundi
• 14. On the Adoptability of Power-sharing in Syria
• 15. The Pacific Islands: The Centrality of Context for Power-Sharing in the Global South
• 16. Conclusion: The Power-Sharing Lifecycle across the Global South
• Back Matter