Author(s)

Jan-Erik Lane¹, Alexander M. Preker^2*

¹UNIGE, Geneva, Switzerland.
²University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

The often heard call for other forms of democracy than the adversarial type is not realistic. MWCs and MSCs offer a peaceful mechanism for voting to handle social conflicts by means of political parties under the constraints of rule of law and the principal-agent interaction. Switzerland is the only consociational state today, but operating under heavy referenda restraints.

Democracies, Coalitions, Two German States, Voting Power, Weber on the Political Party

Lane, J. and Preker, A. (2018) Political Parties, Coalitions and Democracy. Open Journal of Political Science, 8, 447-466. doi: 10.4236/ojps.2018.84029.