January 01, 2007 | 160 Pages | Arabic
Challenges of Consociational Democracy in Plural Societies: Iraq and Lebanon

A book compiling the papers which were presented at a conference in June 2006 discussing the linkages between pluralism, political systems, and consociationalism in Lebanon and Iraq. The authors focus on two themes. The first adopts an institutional approach and looks into the legal-constitutional aspect of consociational democracy while the second theme depicts it from a social and political perspective. This book provides a critical analysis of the realities of consociational democracy in Lebanon and Iraq, reframing traditional questions and conceptual tools.