Abstract

Debates on consociationalism seek to explain how and why prescriptive power-sharing can support successful ethnic conflict management in post-conflict societies and if the differences between liberal and corporate consociationalism affect system stability. At the same time, a new and growing body of work has begun to examine the previously under-considered effects of power-sharing on “Others,” that is, those communities not in alignment with the included ethnic groups. This paper adds to understandings of liberal and corporate consociational models and their impact on a specific type of Other – “newcomers” – through interviews with civil society organizations representing their interests. Current approaches to the liberal-corporate distinction do not reflect the impact of institutional design on newcomers navigation of power-sharing systems. Through a comparative analysis of newcomer engagement in (liberal) Northern Ireland and (corporate) Lebanon, this paper will reveal how institutional design cultivates path-dependent elite behaviors that negatively impact newcomers through different policy responses.

摘要

关于联合主义的争论试图解释说明性的权力共享如何以及为什么能够支持冲突后社会中成功的种族冲突管理，以及自由主义和公司联合主义之间的差异是否会影响系统的稳定性。同时，越来越多的新工作已经开始研究权力分享对“其他”（即与所包含的种族群体不符的社区）先前未被充分考虑的影响。本文通过与代表自己利益的民间社会组织进行访谈，从而加深了对自由主义和公司联合模式的理解，以及它们对特定类型的其他人（“新来者”）的影响。当前对自由企业-企业区分的方法并未反映出制度设计对新来的权力共享制度的影响。