CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Herenda, Tahir |
|---|---|
| Title | Minority Vetoes in Consociational Democracies |
| Summary | Consociational democracy has been one of the most prominent theoretical approaches to the manner in which deeply divided societies are politically and constitutionally organized. One of the core elements of consociational democracies are minority veto mechanisms, which serve to safeguard the interest of minority groups in decision making processes. This type of protection of the interest of minority groups is to an extent damaging to the efficiency of the legislator, and bears potential for creating deadlock. This paper aims to explore the ways in which different institutional arrangements of minority veto mechanisms function in practice, focusing on which elements of veto mechanisms bear a more significant risk of creating deadlock. In order to answer this task, the paper will expound different theoretical approaches to the subject, and relying on elements on different theoretical approaches it shall try and assert all the key elements of veto mechanisms from the point of the dichotomy of efficiency of the legislative process and the level of protection of minority groups. The three selected comparators are Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Northern Ireland. All three of the countries are consociational democracies which employ legislative minority veto mechanisms, but with significant structural differences and differing effects. |
| Supervisor | Professor Renata Uitz |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/herenda_tahir.pdf |
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