Consociationalism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Political consociation; government through guaranteed group representation. uncountable

    "Where consociationalism and federalism overlay one another, moreover, the continuity of the latter depends on the stability of consociationalism."

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"Where consociationalism and federalism overlay one another, moreover, the continuity of the latter depends on the stability of consociationalism."

Etymology

From consociational + -ism.

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