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#45 A new logic of ethnic power-sharing – with Alexandre Raffoul
Episode 76
Wednesday, 18 March, 2026
In this episode, we discuss power-sharing as a tool for ethnic conflict management with Alexandre Raffoul, who recently defended his thesis on the subject. His dissertation sheds light on the understudied concept of “associational power-sharing”, and his data reveal some striking findings. Resources: The extensive summary (Kappa) of Alexandre's dissertation "The Logics of Multi-Ethnic Coalitions: Power-Sharing, Party Systems, and Ethnic Conflict Management" is available here: https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A2024657&dswid=4385 The first essay, “Practicing Power-Sharing: How Political Adversaries (Fail to) Rule Jointly”, is available open access in Nations and Nationalism: https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.13110 The second essay, "Unstable Concepts, Unresolved Controversies: Reassembling Power-Sharing, Consociationalism, and Centripetalism", is published open access in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics: https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2025.2488577
