as the key to a stable democracy. Based on this initial study of consociational democracy, John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary trace consociationalism back to 1917, when it was first employed in the Netherlands, while Gerhard Lehmbruch suggests "precursors" of consociationalism as early as the 1555 Peace of Augsburg.

State-building

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