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The Conditions for Consociational Democracy: a Logical and Empirical Critique *
Author(s) -
PAPPALARDO ADRIANO
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1981.tb00614.x
Subject(s) - democracy , reliability (semiconductor) , stability (learning theory) , predictive power , power (physics) , empirical research , test (biology) , economics , positive economics , econometrics , sociology , political science , mathematics , computer science , law , epistemology , philosophy , statistics , politics , thermodynamics , physics , machine learning , paleontology , biology
The predictive power of the consociational model cannot be assessed without a rigorous analysis of the conditions that are conducive to overarching élite cooperation. However, neither Lijphart nor other scholars deal satisfactorily with the problem because many of the conditions that they identify often fail to satisfy one or more criteria that test their reliability. Only two conditions are unambiguously favourable to consociational cooperation: inter‐subcultural stability and élite predominance over a politically deferential and organizationally encapsulated following: