1. Power Dividing Key Authors –Philip G. Roeder and Donald Rothchild, eds., Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars. Cornell University Press, 2005 –Contributions therein especially from Rothchild & Roeder, Roeder, Lake & Rothchild, Bunce & Watts, Reilly, Sisk & Stefes

2. Perils of Power Sharing Institutional weapons Limits on democracy Governmental inefficiency Governmental rigidity Inadequate enforcement

3. Alternatives to Power Sharing Majoritarian democracy Protectorate under foreign power(s) or international organization(s) Partition into independent states Power division

4. Three Strategies of Power Dividing Civil liberties Multiple majorities Checks and balances

5. Institutional Instruments of Power Dividing Extensive human rights bills Separation of powers between the branches of government and a range of specialised agencies Checks and balances between decision making centres Power dividing thus favours: –presidential over parliamentary systems –bicameral over unicameral legislatures –independent judiciaries with powers of judicial review extending to acts of both legislative and executive branches