Abstract (may include machine translation)
Mounting evidence indicates that power-sharing supports transitions to democracy. However, the resulting quality of democracy remains understudied. Given the increasing global spread of power-sharing, this is a crucial oversight, as prominent critiques accuse it of a number of critical deficiencies. The present article advances this literature in two ways. First, it offers a comprehensive discussion of how power-sharing affects the quality of democracy, going beyond specific individual aspects of democracy. It argues that power-sharing advances some of these aspects while having drawbacks for others. Second, it offers the first systematic, large-N analysis of the frequently discussed consequences of power-sharing for the quality of democracy. It relies on a dataset measuring the quality of democracy in 70 countries worldwide, combining it with new fine-grained data for institutional power-sharing. The results indicate that power-sharing is a complex institutional model which privileges a particular set of democratic actors and processes, while deemphasizing others.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 411-430 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | European Political Science Review |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 7 Nov 2021 |
Keywords
- Consociationalism
- Democracy
- Liberal rights
- Power-sharing
- Quality of democracy
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Power-sharing and the quality of democracy
Bochsler, D. (Creator), Juon, A. (Contributor) & Juon, A. (Contributor), Harvard Dataverse, 2021
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/0geow3, https://dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/0GEOW3
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