Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a consociation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective U.S. Of or pertaining to a consociation.
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- adjective politics Having major internal
divisions alongethnic ,religious , orlinguistic lines, with none of the divisions large enough to form a majority group, yet nonethelessstable due to consultation among theelites of each of its major social groups.
Etymologies
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Examples
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When I first saw the word "consociational" I thought it was a typographical error.
Hope in Lebanon 2005
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He opts instead for a consociational democracy: a system in which religious, cultural, national, and economic considerations will be balanced by mutual agreement, within a power-sharing government.
Ami Kaufman: Israel: The One-State Solution Should be Taken Off the Table 2010
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Michael Ball is their collectivly elected consociational organizer.
Anarchy Or Irony? The Veneer of Rebellion BikeSnobNYC 2009
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This may be a consociational weakness, a set of institutions that make compromise more difficult.
Balkinization 2006
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This may be a consociational weakness, a set of institutions that make compromise more difficult.
Balkinization 2006
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It would free us from the shackles of the current consociational state of affairs and would create the space for ‘normal politics’ that strange phenomenon everyone claims to desire to finally take root.
Archive 2008-02-01 Johnny Guitar 2008
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It would free us from the shackles of the current consociational state of affairs and would create the space for ‘normal politics’ that strange phenomenon everyone claims to desire to finally take root.
“As my colleague was just saying…” (Or why consensus makes me puke) Johnny Guitar 2008
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Yash Tandon from Uganda had long ago questioned the basic assumptions and definitions implied in the European notion of a centralized state or the conception of ‘consociational democracy’ being imposed on Africa with multi-tribal societies.
A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007
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This consociational characterisation not only fails to conform to reality but it is also aimed at preventing the emergence of a national identity.
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Words connected with our ecclesiastical institutions, as associational, consociational, to fellowship, to missionate.
Chapter 1. Introductory. 6. The Materials of the Inquiry Henry Louis 1921
john commented on the word consociational
"The failure of paid electronic newspapers should have been telling: the Internet is a wholly different environment. Instant, yes, but also consociational, open source, and freely available."
The Huffington Post, The Newspaper Is Dead, Long Live The Newspaper, by Mike Doyle, August 14, 2008
August 15, 2008