Power Sharing and Democracy in Southeast Europe

Florian Bieber

《Taiwan Journal of Democracy》 Special Issue (2013/05) Pp. 129-148

並列摘要

The three power-sharing systems in Southeastern Europe in Kosovo, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina are part of a wider regional pattern of minority inclusion. Power sharing in the three countries was established as a tool of post-conflict interethnic accommodation and enshrines group rights and political representation to varying degrees. The corporate consociational system in Bosnia stands in contrast to less rigid systems in Macedonia and Kosovo. The essay argues that, while consociationalism in Southeastern Europe complicated democratization and enshrines some flaws of the democratic system, it is not the sole or even the main obstacle to the consolidation of liberal democracies in Southeastern Europe.

並列關鍵字

Power sharing ； consociationalism ； Southeastern Europe ； former Yugoslavia ； Bosnia and Herzegovina ； Macedonia ； Kosovo ； democratization

參考文獻

Constitution of Kosovo (2008), art. 96., art 61, art. 81, art. 149, art. 78,

Zakon u Vijeću Ministra Bosne i Hercegovine (2007), arts. 6 and 7.

Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1995), art. 4b., art. IX 3, art. IV.

European Court of Human Rights, Grand Chamber, Case of Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegvoina, December 22, 2009 , http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-96491 (accessed March 24, 2013).

Office for Community Affairs (Office of the Prime Minister), Employment of Members of Non-majority Communities within Kosovo Civil Service and Publicly Owned Enterprise, Prishtina, 2010, http://www.kryeministri-ks.net/zck/repository/docs/1-Policy_study _no1_FINAL.pdf (accessed March 24, 2013).