Law, power-sharing and human rights: introduction to a special issue

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For example see Arend Lijphart, Thinking about Democracy. Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice (London: Routledge, 2008); Pippa Norris, Driving Democracy: Do Power-sharing Institutions Work? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008); and Rupert Taylor (ed.), Consociational Theory. McGarry and O'Leary and the Northern Ireland Conflict (London: Routledge, 2009).

For example see Donald Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000); Philip G. Roeder and Donald Rothchild (eds), Sustainable Peace. Power and Democracy after Civil Wars (New York: Cornell University Press, 2005); and Ian Spears, ‘The Limits of Power-sharing’, Journal of Democracy 13, no. 3 (July 2002): 123–36.

Stef Vandeginste, ‘The African Union, Constitutionalism and Power-sharing’, Journal of African Law 57, no. 1 (forthcoming 2013).

Jeremy Levitt, Illegal Peace in Africa. An Inquiry into the Legality of Power Sharing with Warlords, Rebels and Junta (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Christine Bell, On the Law of Peace. Peace Agreements and the Lex Pacificatoria (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

The data set is available at http://www.ua.ac.be/powersharing.

Mark Freeman, Necessary Evils. Amnesties and the Search for Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).