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con·so·ci·a·tion

(kən-sō′shē-ā′shən)

1. Friendly or cooperative association, as between groups or organizations.

2. Ecology A subdivision of an association having one dominant species of plant.

3. A political arrangement in which various groups, such as ethnic or racial populations within a country or region, share power according to an agreed formula or mechanism.

con·so′ci·a′tion·al adj.

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con•so•ci•a•tion

(kənˌsoʊ siˈeɪ ʃən, -ʃi-)

n.

1. the act of uniting in association.

2. an association of churches or religious orders.

3. a climax community in which one species is dominant.

[1585–95; < Latin]

Consociation

a confederation of churches or religious bodies; an alliance or confederation.

Examples: consociation of acts of providence, 1645; of churches, 1646; of many of the worst acts, 1649; of good spirits, 1656; of tribes for plunder or defence, 1804.

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Consociationalism came to be seen as a source of patronage, at the heart of Italy's public finance problems and even responsible for the corruption crisis of the 1990s.

Italy: a bridge too far?

Sillanpaa carefully points out that "it is not necessary to have a large and elaborate administrative structure for consociationalism to be able to address many of the real needs of a minority such as the Sami" (p.

Political and administrative responses to Sami self-determination

In political science, for example, discussions of "neo-corporatism" and consociationalism have evolved away from country-based explanations to more sectoral or regionally differentiated accounts (see Streeck and Schmitter 1985; Steiner 1981).

The demise of the national union in Italy: lessons for comparative industrial relations theory

True, the fact that Buthelezi was alone among black leaders in linking himself to such an initiative is equally significant, while Slabbert's decision to join the trek to Lusaka to meet with the ANC may serve to remind us that it is definitely not Buthelezi who is "winning the battle of ideas." At the same time, there can be little doubt that he remains on offer for any "consociationalism"--he had, of course, attempted to take out a patent on that scenario with his own Buthelezi Commission--or "confederalism" that may be forthcoming.

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Robert Dahl further develops these ideas and stresses that consociationalism requires other favorable conditions (Dahl, 1999: 348).

Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: moving beyond Dayton

While consociationalism suggests homogenous units, the centripetalism stresses for heterogeneous units.

Regional Identities in Quest of Separate Provinces: A New Challenge for the Pakistani Federation

Institutionalizing the communal divide, the consociationalism also created electoral incentives for nationalist and unionist political parties to maintain nationalistunionist cleavage structures and political competition based on ethnic divides.

From war to peace: Northern Ireland conflict and the peace process/Savastan barisa: Kuzey Irlanda caticmasi ve baris sureci

(2.b) "consociational." (2.c) the "semi- presidentialism" ("dualism" + "consociationalism," with majoritarian traces) (22).

Instances of decentralization in East-Central Europe: operationalization, taxonomy and applications on local political elites' outlook

Lebanon's confessional system of government espouses a form of consociationalism, which guarantees group representation, with the highest offices proportionately reserved for certain religious communities.