| The response lies largely in Belgium's consociational model that has been put in place at the central level to deal with the linguistic cleavage. |
| By these categories, he believes, Belgium is a political and consociational nation, and Latvia is a cultural nation and majoritarian democracy. |
| These facts lead to many different adjectives being placed before the term democracy: liberal democracy, representative democracy, consociational democracy, participatory democracy and direct democracy, to name but a few. |
| Nigeria and Malaysia have also been inching toward some form of consociational rule to manage their deeply divided societies. |
| Other critics focus on the consociational practice of negotiations and accommodation among elites. |
| Confessionalism is a system of consociational government which distributes political and institutional power proportionally among religious subcommunities. |
