Power sharing

acknowledgment of political diversity

late-1995 treaty ending the Bosnian War

1998 peace pacts between the British, Irish, and Northern Irish governments to end the Troubles

1918–1938 republic in Central/Eastern Europe

A supermajority is a requirement for a proposal to gain a specified level of support which is greater than the threshold of one-half used for a simple majority, the latter sometimes expressed as a vote". Supermajority rules in a democracy can help to prevent a majority from eroding fundamental rights of a minority, but can also hamper efforts to respond to problems and encourage corrupt compromises at times when action is taken. Changes to constitutions, especially those with entrenched clauses, commonly require supermajority support in a legislature. In consensus democracy, the supermajority

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In political science, the term polyarchy, literally ”rule by many” ( "many", arkhe "rule") was used by Robert Dahl to describe a form of government in which power is invested in multiple people. It takes the form of neither a dictatorship nor a democracy. This form of government was first implemented in the United States and France and gradually adopted by other countries. Polyarchy is different from democracy, according to Dahl, because the fundamental democratic principle is "the continuing responsiveness of the government to the preferences of its citizens, considered as political equals" w

peace treaty

Consociationalism ( ) is a form of democratic power sharing. Political scientists define a consociational state as one which has major internal divisions along ethnic, religious, or linguistic lines, but which remains stable due to consultation among the elites of these groups. Consociational states are often contrasted with states with majoritarian electoral systems.

government condition in semi-presidential systems

form of government

Each candidate votes for the candidates and then the scores are calculated, each candidate's score is the same as the scores of other candidates below him, the last one gets 0 points, the next one gets 1 point, and so on until the win.

form of government

municipality in Quebec, Canada

internationalisation proposal for Jerusalem and the surrounding area as part of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (1947)

system of government

commission that was set up by the Allies during WW2 to make recommendations about postwar political problems in Europe

2006 agreement between the British and Irish governments and Northern Ireland's political parties in relation to the devolution of power in the region

view that politics and decision making are located mostly in the framework of government, but that many non-governmental groups use their resources to exert influence

religiopolitical concept in the Indian subcontinent

Dutch method of consensus decision-making

in Swiss politics, the presence of all major parties in the Federal Council

form of consensus democracy government in Territories of Canada