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United States Tactical Nuclear Doctrine: Developing A Capability, Christopher Michael Cooke
United States Tactical Nuclear Doctrine: Developing A Capability, Christopher Michael Cooke
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Continuity And Change: Consociational Democracy In The Benelux Countries, John Hunter Porter Williams
Continuity And Change: Consociational Democracy In The Benelux Countries, John Hunter Porter Williams
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This study seeks to examine and refine the concept of consociational democracy, a political system in which political leaders of socially and politically distinct groups interact with one another in an atmosphere of moderation and mutual accommodation.
A discussion of the explanations, suggested by various political theorists, of the political behavior and relationships in a consociational democracy produced a list of the basic characteristics of the system. Characteristics which were either ambiguous or ascribable to other political systems were eliminated.
The Benelux countries— Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg— are three countries which have moderate political systems similar to the general …