Cracks in the Mosaic: A Comparative Case Study of the State of Consociationalism in Belgium and Switzerland
Fifty-five years have passed since Lijphart’s introduction of the consociational model of democracy, which uses elite cooperation to manage conflict in divided societies. Through a comparative case study of the application of consociationalism in the classic cases of Belgium and Switzerland with a focus on the key characteristics of grand coalition, segmental autonomy, and public passivity, the mo