This book evaluates the performance of consociational power-sharing arrangements in Europe by addressing two key questions: First, under what conditions do consociational arrangements come in and out of being? And second, how do consociational arrangements work in practice and how do they mediate potential deadlock between power-sharing partners? The volume assesses core aspects of power-sharing theory and practice through a collection of case studies drawn from across the European continent. Chapters cover those countries which were early adopters of consociationalism but which have since moved on to other institutional designs (the Netherlands, Austria), early adopters which continue to use consociational processes to manage their differences (Belgium, Switzerland, South Tyrol), and 'new wave' cases where consociationalism was adopted after violent internal conflict (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Northern Ireland). The book also examines cases of unresolved conflict and consider to what extent consociationalism can help mediate their ongoing divisions (Cyprus, Spain).

Soeren Keil is Reader in Politics and International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is also Visiting Professor and Module Director at Centre International de Formation Europeene (CIFE) in Nice, France. His research focuses on the use of territorial autonomy as a tool of conflict resolution, the political systems of the Western Balkan states and the process of EU enlargement.

Allison McCulloch is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada. Her research considers the politics of deeply divided societies, with a specific emphasis on the design of political power-sharing (consociational) institutions.

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Soeren Keil is Reader in Politics and International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is also Visiting Professor and Module Director at Centre International de Formation Europeene (CIFE) in Nice, France. His research focuses on the use of territorial autonomy as a tool of conflict resolution, the political systems of the Western Balkan states and the process of EU enlargement. His recent publications include The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans A Failure of EU Conditionality? (co-edited with Jelena Dzankic and Marko Kmezic, 2019) and Federalism and Conflict Resolution (co-authored with Paul Anderson, forthcoming).

Allison McCulloch is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada. Her research considers the politics of deeply divided societies, with a specific emphasis on the design of political power-sharing (consociational) institutions. This includes how power-sharing governments handle political crises, the incentive structures for ethnopolitical moderation and extremism that power-sharing offers, and how power-sharing arrangements can be made more inclusive of identities beyond the ethnonational divide. She is the author of Power-Sharing and Political Stability in Deeply Divided Societies (2014) *and co-editor of Power Sharing: Empirical and Normative Challenges* (with John McGarry, 2017).

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Chapter 1. Power-Sharing in Europe: From Adoptability to End-ability

Allison McCulloch

Chapter 2. Consociationalism in the Netherlands: Pillar Talk and Polder Politics

Matthijs Bogaards

Chapter 3. Power-Sharing in Austria: Consociationalism, Corporatism, and Federalism

Peter Bussjaeger and Mirella M. Johler

Chapter 4. The Politics of Compromise: Institutions and Actors of Power-Sharing in Switzerland

Sean Mueller

Chapter 5. Power-Sharing in Belgium: The Disintegrative Model

Patricia Popelier

Chapter 6. Power-Sharing and Party Politics in the Balkans

John Hulsey and Soeren Keil

Chapter 7. Towards Inclusive Power-Sharing in Northern Ireland: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Cera Murtagh

Chapter 8. South Tyrol's Model of Conflict Resolution: Territorial Autonomy and Power-Sharing

Elisabeth Alber

Chapter 9. A Consociational Compromise? Constitutional Evolution in Spain and Catalonia

Paul Anderson

Chapter 10. Why Has Cyprus Been a Consociational Cemetery?

John McGarry

Chapter 11. Conclusion

Soeren Keil and Allison McCulloch