Power-Sharing in Europe: Past Practice, Present Cases, and Future Directions

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Power-Sharing in Europe-From Adoptability to End-Ability -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Power-Sharing from Start to Finish -- 3 Organization of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Consociationalism in the Netherlands: Polder Politics and Pillar Talk -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Pillars as Problem -- 3 Pillars as Promoters of Emancipation and Modernization -- 4 An Islamic Pillar? -- 5 Accommodation, Consociationalism, and Consensus -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Power-Sharing in Austria: Consociationalism, Corporatism, and Federalism -- 1 Introduction: Austria as a Role Model of Consociational Democracy and Corporatism -- 2 Theoretical Foundations -- 2.1 Consociational Democracy -- 2.2 Federal Power-Sharing -- 3 The Birth of the Federal Constitution of Austria -- 4 Developments During the First Republic -- 5 The Ständestaat between 1934-1938 -- 6 Developments During the Second Republic -- 6.1 1945-1966 -- 6.2 1966-1999 -- 6.3 1999-2019 -- 7 Continuities and Changes -- References -- Chapter 4: The Politics of Compromise: Institutions and Actors of Power-Sharing in Switzerland -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Cleavages -- 3 Design and Operation -- 4 Challenges -- 5 Prospects -- References -- Chapter 5: Power-Sharing in Belgium: The Disintegrative Model -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Salient Cleavages in Belgium: A Triple Fault Line -- 2.1 Language -- 2.2 Economy -- 2.3 Ideology -- 3 Handling the Belgian Divide Through Institutional Design: Power-Sharing and Power-Dividing -- 3.1 Historical Overview -- 3.2 A Dividing of Power -- 3.3 Power-Sharing -- 4 Major Challenges -- 4.1 Heterogeneity as a Factor of Instability -- 4.2 Dyadic Federalism -- 4.3 Political Asymmetry -- 4.4 Constitutional Asymmetry -- 5 Future Prospects.