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“The unloved child matures” : power-sharing in Burundi
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Author
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Abstract
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| After a decade of civil war, Burundi adopted a complex power-sharing architecture codified in the 2000 Arusha Agreement and the 2005 Constitution. Power-sharing aimed to address issues of ethnic marginalization and political monopolization of power. While this arrangement brought forth an unprecedented politicization of ethnicity, it failed to promote the consolidation of democracy. Understanding these conflicting achievements requires taking into consideration both institutional design and the agency of the political actors sharing power. We argue that Burundian institutions were guided by an original “associational” logic, that promoted the emergence of a multi-ethnic party system and facilitated the functioning of ethnic power-sharing in the country. However, the increasing imbalance in power between the ruling party and the opposition led to the gradual erosion of party-based power-sharing, as dominant actors used a variety of informal and formal strategies to reconfigure the institutions and make them work in their favor. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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Power-sharing in the Global South : patterns, practices and potentials / Aboultaif, E.W. [edit.]; et al.
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Source (series)
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Federalism and internal conflicts
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Publication
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Cham
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024
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ISBN
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978-3-031-45720-3
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DOI
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10.1007/978-3-031-45721-0_13
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Volume/pages
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p. 285-307
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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