Professional paper
INSTITUTIONAL MODELS AND MANAGEMENT OF DIFFERENCES IN DIVIDED SOCIETIES
Ivan Ćubela
; University of Mostar
Abstract
The author present the issue of divided societies and potential institutional
solutions as a framework for overcoming differences in deeply divided and fragmented societies.
In modern political theory, especially in the second hald of the 20th century, there
is a whole range of models that in practical terms enable the building of the inner stability
of society, along with the political and social involvement of segments that make it counterbalanced
to the Westminster model. The author concludes that the key turning point
and understanding of the issues of divided societies was the itroduction of a consociational
democracy into political discourse which, by applying federal principles, has proved
to be a quality empirical and normative mode that primarily serves as an explanation of
political stability and wants to explain the mechanisms of maintaining a stable democratic
government in a plural society.
Keywords
divided society; federalism; consociational democracy; political stability
Hrčak ID:
233999
URI
Publication date:
4.6.2018.
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