Democracy and Power-Sharing in Stormy Weather The Case of Lebanon /

• Main Author: Mühlbacher, Tamirace Fakhoury (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009.
• Subjects: Political science.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.

Since the inception of the fragile nation-state in 1943, Lebanon has been faced with the constantly unstable predicament of being torn between Middle Eastern and Western orbits. After examining Lebanon’s pre-war consociational democracy as well as the factors behind its collapse in 1975, Tamirace Fa...

Table of Contents:

• Introductory Overview
• Review and Critique of the Literature on Consociational Democracy
• Pre-War Lebanon: a Dance into the Abyss of Consociationalism
• Post-War Lebanon: The Lost Republic’s Peregrinations
• Post-War Lebanon’s Long and Perilous Road to Democracy
• What about Post-War Consociationalism?
• Final Appraisal.