In search of the consociational "spirit of accommodation"

Consociational Theory: McGarry and O'Leary and the Northern Ireland Conflict

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 196-205

  Steiner, Jürg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84917070592     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203962565     Document Type: Chapter

References (17)

1. A. Lijphart (1968) The Politics of Accommodation: Pluralism and Democracy in The Netherlands, Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, chapter entitled "The Spirit of Accommodation," p. 104.
2. See, for example, I. O'Flynn (2003) "The problem of recognising individual and national identities: A liberal critique of the Belfast Agreement," Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 6(3), 129-53;
3. R. Taylor (2006) "The Belfast Agreement and the politics of consociationalism: A critique," The Political Quarterly 77(2), 217-26.
4. J. Steiner and M. M. L. Crepaz (2007) European Democracies, 5th edn, New York, Longman, pp. 90-92.
5. R. E. Germann (1994) Staatsreform. Der Uebergang zur Konkurrenzdemokratie, Bern, Haupt.
6. Steiner and Crepaz, European Democracies, pp. 119-24.
7. A. Lijphart (1984) Democracies: Patterns of Majoritarian and Consensus Government, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press.
8. Lijphart, The Politics of Accommodation, p. 104.
9. J. Steiner, A. Bächtiger, M. Spörndli, and M. R. Steenbergen (2004) Deliberative Politics in Action: Analyzing Parliamentary Debates, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
10. R. E. Goodin (2005) "Sequencing deliberative moments," Acta Politica 40(2), 183.
11. J. Habermas (1996) Die Einbeziehung des Anderen. Studien zur politischen Theorie, Frankfurt a.m., Suhrkamp, p. 323.
12. A question also engaged by John Dryzek; see J. S. Dryzek (2000) Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations, Oxford, Oxford University Press, p. 41.
13. J. Habermas (1996) Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, p. 299.
14. J. Habermas (1992) Faktizität und Geltung: Beiträge zur Diskursionstheorie des Rechts und des demokratischen Rechtsstaates, Frankfurt a.m., Suhrkamp, p. 370.
15. Habermas, Die Einbeziehung des Anderen, p. 305.
16. For further, broader, research questions, see D. F. Thompson (2008) "Deliberative democratic theory and empirical political science," Annual Review of Political Science 11, 497-520.
17. J. Steiner et al., Deliberative Politics in Action.