Thinking about Democracy: Power Sharing and

Arend Lijphart is one of the world's leading and most influential political scientists whose work has had a profound impact on the study of democracy and comparative politics. Thinking about Democracy draws on a lifetime's experience of research and publication in this area and collects together for the first time his most significant and influential work. The book also contains an entirely new introduction and conclusion where Professor Lijphart assesses the development of his thought and the practical impact it has had on emerging democracies. This volume will be of enormous interest to all students and scholars of democracy and comparative politics, and politics and international relations in general.

Arend Lijphart is Research Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

List of illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Introduction: developments in power sharing theory	p. 3
Consociational and consensus democracy	p. 23
Consociational democracy (1969)	p. 25
The puzzle of Indian democracy: a consociational interpretation (1996)	p. 42
Self-determination versus pre-determination of ethnic minorities in power sharing systems (1991)	p. 66
Constitutional design for divided societies (2004)	p. 75
The quality of democracy: consensus democracy makes a difference (1999)	p. 89
Majority rule	p. 109
Majority rule in theory and practice: the tenacity of a flawed paradigm (1991)	p. 111
Back to democratic basics: who really practices majority rule? (1997)	p. 125
Presidential versus parliamentary government	p. 139
Presidentialism and majoritarian democracy: theoretical observations (1994)	p. 141
Europe, the European Union, and democracy (2002)	p. 156
Proportional versus majoritarian election systems	p. 159
Constitutional choices for new democracies (1991)	p. 161
Double-checking the evidence (1991)	p. 173
The alternative vote: a realistic alternative for South Africa? (1991)	p. 180
Five exemplary devices for electoral reform (1994)	p. 192
Conceptual links to the fields of political behavior, foreign policy, and comparative methodology	p. 199
Unequal participation: democracy's unresolved dilemma (1997)	p. 201
Types of democracy and generosity with foreign aid: an indirect test of the democratic peace proposition (1999)	p. 232
Comparative politics and the comparative method (1971)	p. 245
Conclusion	p. 267
Conclusion: power sharing, evidence, and logic	p. 269
Bibliography: the complete scholarly writings of Arend Lijphart	p. 282
Index	p. 299
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