Making Representative Politics Work: Cross-Segmental Parties in Consociations
dc.contributor.author | Agarin, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Jarrett, H | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-03T16:31:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-12-26 | |
dc.date.updated | 2024-01-03T15:31:14Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Cross-segmental parties are outliers in consociations dominated by ethnic parties. While they often receive comparatively limited electoral support, they have the ability to make representative politics work. Cross-segmental parties can successfully represent cross-communal interests and encourage governments to focus on non-segmental issues by bringing their ‘second policy dimension’ to the attention of segmental parties and encouraging ‘issue seepage’. To demonstrate this, we draw on evidence from these parties in cases including Northern Ireland, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon and South Tyrol, and argue that we need to look beyond election results to gauge their ‘success’. We identify three key areas – electoral dynamics, interactions in legislatures and contribution to government – where cross-segmental, not segmental, parties can make representation work in consociations. This is true not only in liberal consociations that (can) explicitly accommodate cross-segmental interests in legislative and executive arrangements but also in corporate consociations where formal accommodation does not exist. | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 77-94 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 26 December 2023 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12585 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/134885 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley / Swiss Political Science Association | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2023 The Authors. Swiss Political Science Review published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Swiss Political Science Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Consociationalism | en_GB |
dc.subject | Cross-segmental parties | en_GB |
dc.subject | Issue seepage | en_GB |
dc.subject | Representative politics | en_GB |
dc.subject | Second policy dimension | en_GB |
dc.title | Making Representative Politics Work: Cross-Segmental Parties in Consociations | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2024-01-03T16:31:40Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1424-7755 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Wiley via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability statement: Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1662-6370 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Swiss Political Science Review | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Swiss Political Science Review, 23(47) | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-11-21 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-12-26 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2024-01-03T16:29:34Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2024-01-03T16:31:55Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2023-12-26 |
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