consociational
- adjective
- /kənˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃənl/
- Specialized
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consociacional
- In a consociational system, power is shared among various ethnic groups to ensure mutual cooperation.
- consociational democracy
- consociational arrangement
- consociational model
Examples
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In their follow-up study of the statehood period, they claim that many of these consociational practices were abandoned when Israel became a sovereign state.
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There is much dispute concerning the viability of consociational democracy in South Africa.
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Neither are the religious parties that join a government likely to justify their decisions in consociational terms.
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We shall begin by describing the consociational arrangements that characterized the relationships between religion and politics prior to the 1980s.
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What, then, are the chances of introducing consociational practices into post-communist systems?
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The 1996 election represents a protest against the abandonment of consociational patterns in both religious and political matters.
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A fourth perspective, a consociational view, sees both racial and ethnic divisions and argues for some form of political power sharing.
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Another approach, promoted by Arend Lijphart, is consociational democracy.
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Indeed, Dan Horowitz and Moshe Lissak contend that all of Yishuv politics need to be understood in consociational terms.
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As will be developed below, the Bosnian arrangement stemming from the Dayton Accords hewed more closely to the consociational model described above.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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About a group of people or parties who work together
Antonyms
How Cooperative
Surface Forms
Morphology
consociational = consociation (semi-transparent) = con + soci + ation + al
The adjective is regularly formed from the technical noun 'consociation', but the specialized political meaning is not fully predictable for an average learner.
Etymology
Consociational comes from the parts con- 'together' and socius 'partner', a root you can also see in social and associate. So a consociational system is one where different groups are kept 'together' to share power and work cooperatively.