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Consociational

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con·so·ci·a·tion  (kn-ssh-shn)
n.
1. Friendly or cooperative association, as between groups or organizations.
2. Ecology A subdivision of an association having one dominant species of plant.
3. A political arrangement in which various groups, such as ethnic or racial populations within a country or region, share power according to an agreed formula or mechanism.

con·soci·ation·al adj.


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Modes of democratic practice are recalled - majoritarian, consensus, consociational (14-17), yet one must glean the normative conception from those things which Dowty finds nascent in traditional practices of Jewish community governance: "a body of law that de facto mandated important basic human rights .
Over time, this may lead to the displacement of minority communal elites operating within a consociational framework.
For good a discussion on Lebanon's consociational political model, see Theoder Hanf, Coexistence in Wartime Lebanon: Decline of a State and the Rise of a Nation (London: I.
 
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