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Mission impossible? UN-Vermittlung in Libyen, Syrien und dem Jemen

Asseburg, Muriel; Lacher, Wolfram; Transfeld, Mareike - 2018

Befriedung durch Machtteilung zielen. Dabei kann die UN auf ihre etablierte Führungsrolle bei Vermittlungsbemühungen verweisen … sämtliche Bemühungen der UN gescheitert, sie durch Machtteilung zu beenden. Im Jemen und in Libyen haben Machtteilungsabkommen … Verhandlungen über Machtteilung zwischen den Bürgerkriegsparteien zustande zu bringen. Mittlerweile ist es angesichts der …

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Mission impossible? UN mediation in Libya, Syria and Yemen

Asseburg, Muriel; Lacher, Wolfram; Transfeld, Mareike - 2018

The upheavals in the Arab world since 2011 have led to civil wars in three countries: Libya, Syria and Yemen. In all three cases, the United Nations have tried to mediate agreements between the conflicting parties to bring about peace through power-sharing. In this endeavour, the UN can lean on...

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Power Sharing in Syria: Lessons from Lebanon's Experience

Rosiny, Stephan - 2013

In the last two years, the Syrian uprising has turned from a civil protest movement against an authoritarian regime into an outright civil war in which the antagonists affiliations' and identities are increasingly framed in sectarian speech. In summer 2012, various politicians and analysts...

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Men, women, and the ballot: Gender imbalances and suffrage extensions in US states

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2010

Woman suffrage led to one of the greatest enfranchisements in history. Yet, women neither won the right to vote by force, nor did men grant it under the imminent threat of female unrest. These facts are difficult to reconcile with leading political economy theories of suffrage extensions. In...

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Not Always in the People's Interest: Power-sharing Arrangements in African Peace Agreements

Mehler, Andreas - 2008

Beitrag fasst Teile der akademischen Debatte zu Machtteilung und Kriegsbeendigung zusammen, indem zentrale Ergebnisse der … zusammengefasst. Jüngere afrikanische Friedensabkommen (1999-2007) werden auf ihren Gehalt an Machtteilung hin analysiert. Die meisten … Abkommen enthalten - allerdings unterschiedliche - Mechanismen zur Machtteilung. Am auffälligsten ist aber die Variation in der …

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Power sharing at the local level: Evidence on opting-in for non-citizen voting rights

Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois - 2019

The enfranchisement of foreigners is likely one of the most controversial frontiers of institutional change in developed democracies, which are experiencing an increasing number of non-citizen residents. We study the conditions under which citizens are willing to share power. To this end, we...

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Power Sharing in the Asia-Pacific

Reilly, Benjamin - 2014

Executive power sharing has been practiced widely in the Asia-Pacific region, in both formal and informal ways. This paper examines the theory and practice of these various approaches to the sharing or dividing of governing power across the region. I look first at the broad issues of executive...

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Redistributive Politics, Power Sharing and Fairness

Debowicz, Dario; Saporiti, Alejandro; Wang, Yizhi - 2016

We study the effect of power sharing over income redistribution among different socio-economic groups in a model of redistributive politics with fairness concern. We prove that a unique pure-strategy equilibrium exists under fairly general conditions; and we show that equilibrium transfers...

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From watch-dogs to nation-builders: The dilemmas of diaspora engament in post-conflict Burundi

Turner, Simon; Brønden, Birgitte Mossin - 2011

This working paper explores the changing roles of Diasporas in post-conflict Burundi in terms of contributing to … development, reconciliation and peace building. Burundi is in a state of post-conflict recovery after decades of civil war and … international organizations. They include private and public sectors and may be initiated both inside Burundi and among the Diaspora …

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Female political representation in the aftermath of ethnic violence: A comparative analysis of Burundi and Rwanda

Guariso, Andrea; Ingelaere, Bert; Verpoorten, Marijke - 2017

We study the impact of electoral gender quotas in post-war Burundi and Rwanda on women's political representation … ordinary women, before, during, and after the introduction of gender quotas. We find that, both in Rwanda and Burundi …

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