CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Zarang, Mohammad Asil |
|---|---|
| Title | Constitutional Designs for Divided Societies: The Form of Government in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Kosovo |
| Summary | Worldwide different form of governments exists today than any time in history. This thesis looks at the capacity of constitutional design particularly the form of governments to see which form of government can be a suitable choice to facilitate sustainable democratic regimes and to create durable peace settlements in multiethnic states; in particular those emerging from deep-rooted civil conflicts. There is no consensus among social scientists whether constitutional designs to share power can decrease political instability in states suffering from internal conflict, or whether such arrangements may result counterproductive by inadvertently escalating ethnic tensions or facilitate a strong resurrection by an ethnic group. This issue remains unresolved despite decades of intense debates. This thesis presents a comparison of three different polities to answer the question about role of constitutional designs mainly form of governments in fostering sustainable peace and democracy. Building upon consociational theory firstly conceptualized by Arend Lijphart in 1969. |
| Supervisor | Möschel, Mathias |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/zarang_mohammad.pdf |
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