Where consociationalism and federalism overlay one another, moreover, the continuity of the latter depends on the stability of consociationalism.
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Consociationalism
Synonyms for "consociationalism"
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19 translations across 14 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَوَافُقِيَّة noun (political consociation)
Catalan
1 entries- consociativisme noun (political consociation)
Dutch
2 entries- consociationalisme noun (political consociation)
- zuilenstelsel noun (political consociation)
French
2 entries- consociationalisme noun (political consociation)
- consociativisme noun (political consociation)
German
1 entries- Konkordanzdemokratie noun (political consociation)
Irish
1 entries- comhshochaíocht noun (political consociation)
Italian
2 entries- consociativismo noun (political consociation)
- consociazionismo noun (political consociation)
Korean
1 entries- 협의주의 noun (political consociation)
Malay
1 entries- konsosialisme noun (political consociation)
Portuguese
1 entries- consociativismo noun (political consociation)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- konsocijativìzam noun (political consociation)
- консоцијативѝзам noun (political consociation)
Spanish
2 entries- consociacionalismo noun (political consociation)
- consociativismo noun (political consociation)
Turkish
1 entries- eştoplumlaştırmacılık noun (political consociation)
Ukrainian
1 entries- консоціоналізм noun (political consociation)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Consociationalism has been described by its best-known proponent as a system of government based on a "cartel of elites."
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The main weakness of consociationalism is that its main successful cases have taken place in Western Europe among groups that have not been in open military conflict with each other. It cannot be established that those societies would not have remained peaceful without consociationalism.
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