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100			_aStojanovic, Nenad. _920468
245			_aDemocracy, ethnoicracy and convocational democracy
260			_aInternational Political Science Review
300			_a41(1), Jan, 2020: p.30-43
520			_aThis article questions the notion of ‘consociational democracy’. It argues that it rests on shaky ground, empirically and conceptually. As an empirical matter, a consociation is inherently unstable because it tends either to collapse into ethnoicracy (where the power is shared by the main ethnic groups so that citizens who do not belong to them are politically marginalized) or to become a non-consociational, liberal democracy. At the conceptual level ‘consociational democracy’ is an impossibility because a polity cannot be both constitutional and democratic. This article argues that consociations can be at best demoicracies – that is, polities composed not of a single demos but of multiple demoi. Yet the problem of stability remains. The article concludes with the suggestion that the stability problem can be addressed by adopting a weak form of democracy – the ‘demoi-within-demos’ constellation – where a thin demos coexists with multiple demoi.- Reproduced
650			_a Consociationalism, Centripetalism, democracy, Demoicracy, Ethnoicracy, Demos _918928
773			_aInternational Political Science Review
906			_aDEMOCRACY
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