Provides empirical evidence that power-sharing measures used to end civil wars can help facilitate a transition to minimalist democracy.

Proposals for power-sharing constitutions remain controversial, as highlighted by current debates in Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Sudan. This book updates and

Power-sharing is an important political strategy for managing protracted conflicts and it can also facilitate the democratic accommodation of difference. Despit

This book examines the problems of prospects of achieving sustainable democracy through power sharing political institutions in societies that have been torn by

Nearly all the peace accords signed in the last two decades have included power-sharing in one form or another. The notion of both majority and minority segment