| 书目名称 | Democratisation and Power-Sharing in Stormy Weather | | 副标题 | The Case of Lebanon | | 编辑 | Tamirace Fakhoury Mühlbacher | | 视频video | | | 概述 | The Case of Lebanon | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Is democracy possible only in homogeneous societies? Does heterogeneity - clude a stable democracy? Throughout history, ethnic, linguistic, or religious homogeneity whether by circumstance, coercion, or choice, has seemingly been conducive to democracy. In France, democracy was established after the impo- tion of religious uniformity and the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The United States pulled in immigrants who renounced their original affiliations to forge a new identity in a newly born state. Still, defying assumptions, democracies have emerged in heterogeneous states such as the Swiss Confederation, the Successor States of the Holy Roman Empire and, later, those carved out of the previous colonial empires. One common feature is the failure of – often violent – attempts to enforce homogeneity, or the lack of any such attempt in the first place. In the course of time, these divided societies have learned to live in diversity, to pacify their differences, and to find a path - wards peace or at least accommodation. In sum, they went beyond forms of se- rating powers to sharing power. Whether defined by ethnicity, language, religion, or even ideology, communities agreed to a p | | 出版日期 | Book 2009 | | 关键词 | Arab Republic; Beirut Spring; Islam; Political Science; hybrid democratisation; system transformation | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91769-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-531-16529-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-531-91769-6 | | copyright | VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2009 |
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