centripetalism

(ˌsɛntrɪˈpiːtəlɪzəm)

the movement of things towards a centre

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It is the first major comparison of two power-sharing designs - consociationalism and centripetalism - and it assesses a number of cases central to the debate, including Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi and Northern Ireland.

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While consociationalism suggests homogenous units, the centripetalism stresses for heterogeneous units.

Regional Identities in Quest of Separate Provinces: A New Challenge for the Pakistani Federation

9) If Kelman manifests Hardy's centripetalism, the comparison with the centrifugal Lawrence is more profound.

Politics and Art: James Kelman's Not Not While the Giro

2014) 'Nationalism and Multi-ethnic Governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina Methods of Multi-Ethnic Government: A Study of Consociationalism and Centripetalism.

Bosnia and Herzegovina between negative and positive peace: view from the local level

Ralph's centrifugality defines the play, maybe in a way that Simon felt and plainly in a manner hostile to the centripetalism of comedy.

Tennessee Williams's "Serious Comedy": problems of genre and sexuality in (and after) Period of Adjustment

Material Centripetalism and the Contingent Nature of Early Greek Economic Development.

La formacion de la polis en la Grecia Antigua: autonomia del campesinado, subordinacion de las aldeas

Various constitutional and related electoral systems are addressed including contrasting forms of power sharing, and centripetalism which, following the work of leading proponent Donald Horowitz, offers scope through post-electoral, inter-group political accommodation.

Ethnic Conflict: Causes--Consequences--Responses

In addition it will point out how the system could be steered in the direction of centripetalism, relying mostly on the work done by the prominent American scholar Donald L.

Consociationalism, centripetalism and Macedonia

And among notable denizens of this neutral ground, in addition to a broad variety of individuals and institutions, such as constitutional courts, we will find those heroes and heroines of Horowitz's centripetalism, the moderate politicians.

Constitution making at the edges of constitutional order

Thus the Casbah Kid further illustrates the existence of a desperate antagonism to axiological centripetalism.

Cohesion in the novels of Alex La Guma: a dialogic analysis

Dennis Austins contends that "the centrifugalism of rival interests is much stronger under African self-government than the centripetalism of nationalist politics during the colonial period.

The impact of leadership instability on democratic process in Nigeria

A ten-year fiscal retrenching reaction set in, beginning in 1979, but with another ambivalent kind of synthesis of the earlier activist centripetalism and the later retrenching decentralization emerging in the second Reagan administration, despite his New Federalism (II) effort (Walker, 1995;151-162).