PSCI395 - PSCI: BFS: Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Places

This is a course on power-sharing in deeply divided places. It will examine the circumstances in which federal and consociational institutions are proposed and implemented to regulate deep national, ethnic, religious or linguistic divisions. Case studies include such places as Iraq, Switzerland, Canada, India, and Belgium as federations, and Northern Ireland, Bosnia Herzegovina, Lebanon and Macedonia as consociational systems.