Working Papers
Power-Sharing and Peace-Building
No.
1396
Publisher
ERF
Date
June, 2020
Topic
E6. Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
P1. Capitalist Systems
D7. Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
This paper reviews key questions and empirical evidence on the relationship between power-sharing institutions and post-conflict trajectories in countries that have experienced civil war. It identifies open questions and outlines a research agenda that is conducive to mixed methods design. Different measures and concepts of power-sharing are discussed, and a broad set of empirical results is
reviewed and replicated. The conditions that are favorable to different types of power-sharing are considered as are the consequences of power-sharing for the risk of war recurrence and for democratic stability. Differences between constraining and dispersive power-sharing are discussed and the pacifying effects of dispersive power-sharing are analyzed, providing new insights on the implications of external intervention for the postwar stability of power-sharing institutions.
Authors
Nicholas Sambanis
Professor and Chair of the Political Science...