CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Cooke, Simon Basil |
|---|---|
| Title | Deliberative Power-Sharing: The Government in Opposition Approach |
| Summary | ABSTRACT: In recent years there has been a heightened interest in applying the theories of deliberative democracy to constitutional design in divided societies. However, while new normative criteria for evaluating institutional designs have evolved within deliberative theories of democracy, there has been very little exploration of institutional mechanisms beyond those presented in the consociational and centripetal models. This thesis examines the emergence of new deliberative standards for evaluating power-sharing institutions and then uses those standards to evaluate a new genre of institutional mechanisms called, ‘government in opposition rules’. The argument is presented that deliberative power-sharing based on government in opposition rules would resolve many of the weaknesses of both the centripetal and consociational models. The author presents Bosnia-Herzegovina as a case study to illustrate a basic framework for utilizing government in opposition rules according to procedural standards advanced within deliberative theories of democracy. |
| Supervisor | Hannum, Hurst |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/cooke_simon.pdf |
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