Vlade Simović, Ivan Ilić
University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences, Bulevar vojvode Petra Bojovića 1A, 78000 Banja Luka, Bosna i Hercegovina, vlade.simovic@fpn.unibl.org, sanvito@mts.rs
PREGLEDNI NAUČNI RAD
ISSN 2637-2150
e-ISSN 2637-2614
UDC 321.01:17.021.1(436:497.6)
DOI 10.7251/STED2201067S
COBISS.RS-ID 136255489
Paper received: 13.04.2022.
Paper accepted: 15.05.2022.
Published: 30.05.2022.
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Coresponding author:
Vlade Simović, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences, Bulevar vojvode Petra Bojovića 1A, 78000 Banja Luka, Bosna i Hercegovina, vlade.simovic@fpn.unibl.org
ABSTRACT
The subject of this paper is models of consociational democracy in Austria and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The aim is to define in a comparative analysis the similarities and differences between consociational systems of government in these two countries, their practice and scope. Based on these conclusions, we draw new knowledge in the field of activities and possibilities of consociational arrangements in the divided societies of modern Europe. The scientific justification of this paper is that through the analysis of different consociational democracies and their practical experiences, the scope of this form of democratic rule is assessed, and the conclusions are theoretically added to the existing fund of scientific knowledge about this phenomenon. The social contribution of the paper is in the fact that consociational democracy is an increasingly common solution for many divided societies and therefore the analysis of existing consociational democracies is a socially justified topic.
Keywords: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, divided societies, consociational democracy.
