EAN: 9783847115755

POWER-SHARING IN THE DIVIDED ASIAN SOCIETIES GE...

Many countries in Asia are inhabited by multi-segment societies diversified in terms of race 
religion  language and economic status. They have repeatedly provided the basis for analysis of
the search for consensus in the construction of a political scene that would ensure the
participation in power of each group. Regardless of the chosen model  the distribution of power
in multi-segment societies has always been characterized by a state of unstable equilibrium.
Practical solutions constantly evolved between consociationalism  centripetalism  federalism.
In extreme cases they led to political disintegration of states or to permanent domination of
one of the segments  most often based on authoritarian solutions. In this volume  a group of
scholars specializing in countries of the region try to point out the dynamics of the unstable
equilibrium of power sharing in particular Asian countries and analyze the trends occurring in
them in the 21st century.

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