Changing Cleavages in Consociational Democracies

Abstract

Ethnicised politics poses both constraints and opportunities for stability of contemporary societies. Constraints can be formal (e.g., rules of representation might require individuals to identify with a recognised group/ community to benefit from quota or guaranteed seats, and limit the political space for those who are not recognised as "politically relevant") or informal (e.g., a political culture that privileges group-sensitive representation will disproportionately focus on ethnic/cultural/linguistic markers at the expense of more situational, ideological or ‘bread and butter’ issues) (Murtagh 2015; Carlà 2018). This panel focusses on contemporary challenges of formal and informal constraints for accommodation in consociational democracies.

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