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Magones book is a splendid and extremely welcome contribution to our knowledge of how democracies operate. Earlier statistical research had already suggested that consensus democracies showed superior policy performance as well as democratic quality. Because Magones work is an in-depth comparative analysis of relatively few key cases, it presents a particularly powerful reinforcement of this proposition. These five democracies have been admirably resilient in spite of the impact of Europeanization and globalization. The evidence favoring consensus democracy is now overwhelming. It contains crucially important lessons for political engineers who write constitutions for new democracies or try to improve existing democratic systems. Consensus democracy is also the most attractive model for the European Union as it moves toward becoming a true federation. I recommend Magones book with great enthusiasm to both scholars and practical decision-makers.

Professor Arend Lijphart, University of California San Diego, USA

The Statecraft of Consensus Democracies in a Turbulent World

Drawing on the work of Arend Lijphart, this book focuses on consensus democracies. These democracies entail a complex set of democratic institutional and conventional arrangements and can be regarded as a product of path-dependent development towards a national culture of compromise and bargaining.

Taking a multi-dimensional and multi-spatial approach, this book examines the West central European consensus democracies of Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Switzerland, over the past 40 years. Magone examines how these democracies have been transformed by Europeanization thrusts and global turbulence yet are able to maintain political stability. It provides historical context including the different phases of transformation: the golden period (19451979); disorganised capitalism (19791993); and re-equilibration (1993). It includes chapters on political culture, government, parliament, the rise of populism and political parties, subnational government, and the political economy and concludes deliberating on the relevance of consensus democracies experiences for the future of European and global governance.

Based on original research, this book will be of strong interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, European government, West European politics, the politics of small states in Europe, and those with a particular interest in the politics of Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

Jos M. Magone is Professor of Regional and Global Governance at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany.

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The Statecraft of Consensus Democracies in a Turbulent World

A comparative study of Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland

Jos M. Magone

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Names: Magone, Jose M. (Jose Maria), 1962 author.
Title: The statecraft of consensus democracies in a turbulent world: a comparative study of Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland / Jose M. Magone.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business, [2017] |
Series: Routledge research in comparative politics | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016032528| ISBN 9780415502788 (hbk) | ISBN 9781315407869 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: DemocracyAustria. | DemocracyBenelux countries. | DemocracySwitzerland. | Consensus (Social sciences)Austria. | Consensus (Social sciences)Benelux countries. | Consensus (Social sciences)Switzerland. | AustriaPolitics and government. | Benelux countriesPolitics and government. | SwitzerlandPolitics and government.
Classification: LCC JN2026.M34 2017 | DDC 320.3094dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016032528

ISBN: 978-0-415-50278-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-40786-9 (ebk)

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Dedicated to Teresa, Peter and Leo

Il y a souvent bien la diffrence entre la volont de tous et la volont gnrale; celle-ci ne regard qua lintrt commun; lautre regard lintrt priv, et nest quune somme de volonts particulires: mais tez de ces mmes volonts les plus et les moins qui sentredtruisent, reste pour somme des diffrences la volont gnrale.

(Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Le contrat social ou Principles du Droit Politique.
Amsterdam: Marc Michel 1762, Book II, ch. 3)

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It was a great pleasure to do research on these countries and to discover the pressures on consensus democracy. I was lucky enough to be able to conduct over 50 qualitative interviews as well as written testimonies divided among the five countries; this resource contributed to the understanding of politics in each polity. I anonymised all quotations from and references to the interviews by adding the abbreviation for the country (e.g. Interview A = Interviewee from Austria; B = Belgium; CH = Switzerland; LU = Luxembourg; NL = Netherlands).

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