Governing Divided Societies

Governing Divided Societies

Habsburg Austria's Democratic Legacy and the Czechoslovak First Republic

Miller, Daniel; Howe, Philip; Lorman, Thomas

Central European University Press

03/2025

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Tables


Illustrations


List of Abbreviations







Preface


Introduction


Chapter 1: Consociationalism and Consensus Democracy in Theory and Practice


Introduction


The Development of the Consociational Model


The Model


Nine Conditions Favorable to Consociationalism


Consociationalism and Its Critics


Majoritarian and Consensus Democracy


Conclusion


Chapter 2: The Development of Consociationalism in Imperial Austrian


Introduction


Historical Background and Terminology


Favorable and Unfavorable Conditions for Consociational Democracy in Imperial Austria


Imperial Austria as a Semi-Democratic, Proto-Consociational Political System


Regional Compromises as Semi-Democratic Consociationalism


Historians' Criticisms, National Flexibility and the Institutionalization of Ethnicity


Conclusion


Chapter 3: Czechoslovakia as a Consociational Democracy


Introduction


The Diplomatic Career of Lewis Einstein


The Favorable Conditions for Consociational Democracy in Czechoslovakia


The Components of Consociational Democracy in Czechoslovakia


Conclusion


Chapter 4: The Consociational Model and Interwar Slovakia


Introduction


The Favorable Conditions for Consociational Democracy in Slovakia


The Benefits of Participation


The Components of Consociational Democracy in Slovakia


Conclusion


Chapter 5: Conclusion


Evidence of Consociationalism in Central Europe


Contributions to Consociational Theory


Historical Approaches to Consociationalism







Biographies of the Authors


Index
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political development; consociationalism; elite cartels