IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/ctwqxx/v32y2011i10p1777-1802.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Post-Conflict State Building: the debate on institutional choice

Author

Listed:
  • Stefan Wolff

Abstract

A significant theoretical and empirical question underlying much of the literature on post-conflict state building is which institutions offer the best prospect for peace and democracy in divided societies recovering from conflict. This debate is highly relevant for many developing countries. With much invested by third parties in post-conflict reconstruction and a mixed track record of success at best, the question explored by this article is whether consociational institutional designs—widely applied in policy practice and severely criticised in academic discourse—can accomplish the twin goals of peace and democracy in divided post-conflict societies. Examining the claims of supporters and detractors of consociationalism, the article finds substantial conceptual and empirical evidence that consociational institutions hold significant promise for building democratic states after conflict in divided societies.

Suggested Citation

  • Stefan Wolff, 2011. "Post-Conflict State Building: the debate on institutional choice," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(10), pages 1777-1802.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:32:y:2011:i:10:p:1777-1802
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2011.610574
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/01436597.2011.610574
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/01436597.2011.610574?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Julia Strasheim, 2018. "The Politics of Institutional Reform and Post-Conflict Violence in Nepal," Working Papers id:12397, eSocialSciences.
    2. Stefan Bächtold & Joan Bastide & Lara Lundsgaard-Hansen, 2020. "Assembling Drones, Activists and Oil Palms: Implications of a Multi-stakeholder Land Platform for State Formation in Myanmar," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 32(2), pages 359-378, April.
    3. Strasheim, Julia, 2017. "The Politics of Institutional Reform and Post-Conflict Violence in Nepal," GIGA Working Papers 296, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:32:y:2011:i:10:p:1777-1802. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/ctwq .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.