ABSTRACT
Attention to ethno-linguistic conflicts has grown in political science in recent times. Several international journals and books are published regularly on the issue. In the 1990s several scholars aimed to pursue Nordlinger’s seminal work on conflict management in divided societies by exploring how institutional design could play a role in the democratic stability of such heterogeneous countries (Reynolds, 2002; Power ampentity Gasiorowski, 1997). Such works rely on the idea that “institutional design makes a difference in how effectively political leaders are able to manage conflict democratically in divided societies” (Belmont et al., 2002, p. 3).
