Power Sharing in Bahrain: Institutional Engineering, Mutual Recognition, and Autonomy - Softcover

Tabbara, Bann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659484369 ISBN 13: 9783659484360

Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The Arab Spring demonstrated that authoritarian regimes in the region are not immune to violent breakdown. Oppressed citizens are looking for the establishment of democratic political systems to replace authoritarian rule. However, where the society is deeply divided along vertical cleavages, majority-based liberal democracy may not be a viable option. Instead, liberal consociational institutions that accommodate cultural and ethnic diversity are necessary. The establishment of such institutions should go hand in hand with mutual recognition of cultural differences and the autonomy of the polity to ensure the sustainability of post-authoritarian power-sharing political systems. This thesis takes the case of Bahrain, a country with a deeply divided society, to demonstrate how the existing authoritarian regime may be replaced peacefully by a liberal consociational one. It thus examines the prospects of liberal consociationalism in Bahrain by applying to the country the three concepts of institutional engineering, mutual recognition, and autonomy.

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After graduating from the American University of Beirut (AUB) with a Bachelor degree in Finance, Bann pursued her MA degree in International Affairs from the Lebanese American University (LAU) in 2014, for which she wrote this thesis about power sharing in Bahrain.

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• Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3659484369
• ISBN 13: 9783659484360
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 92
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