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Definition of Consociational
1. a. Of or pertaining to a consociation.
Definition of Consociational
1. Adjective. (politics of a state) Having major internal divisions along ethnic, religious, or linguistic lines, with none of the divisions large enough to form a majority group, yet nonetheless stable due to consultation among the elites of each of its major social groups. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Consociational
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consociational
Literary usage of Consociational
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of Thomas Robbins, D. D., 1796-1854 by Thomas Robbins (1886)
"... letter from the church, calling us to a consociational council at Hartland.2 Generally
people are but just beginning to have green corn.3 SEPTEMBER. 1. ..."
2. Institutional Development in Divided Societies by Bertus De Villiers, Frank Delmartino, André Alen (1998)
"Moreover, in order to construct an adequate consociational government that reaches
intergroup compromises and agreements, and subsequently ..."
3. A Complete History of Connecticut, Civil and Ecclesiastical from the by Benjamin Trumbull (1818)
"Some were for high consociational government, and in their sentiments nearly
presbyterians ; others were much more t moderate and rather verging on ..."
4. The Moral Universeby Tom Bentley, Daniel Stedman Jones by Tom Bentley, Daniel Stedman Jones (2001)
"A consociational regime is one in which communities, not individuals, ...
In consociational systems, each community has institutions of its own, ..."
5. The One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Consociatons, Fairfield East (1886)
"It may be justly added, we of the present generation have no reason to think
lightly of our consociational fathers. They were for the most part men of sound ..."
6. Preventing Deadly Conflict edited by David A. Hamburg, Cyrus R. Vance (1998)
"Two major schools of power sharing have developed: the "consociational" ...
The consociational approach focuses on accommodation through achievement of ..."
7. Proceedings of the General Association of Connecticut: Relative to the Rev by General Association of Connecticut (1812)
"... consociational council, in their inferences from the facts here reported.
They have thus differed—and their opinion, solemnly given, is before the ..."
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