Description: Part I: Institutional Design in Divided Societies: An OverviewIntroduction Institutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy in Divided Societies1. 1. Constitutional Design and the Problem of adoption: Proposals versus Processes2. The Wave of Power Sharing Democracy3. Institutions and Coalition-Building in Post-Communist TransitionsPart II: Presidentialism, Federalism and Decentralization, and Electoral Systems.4. Presidents, Parliaments and Democracy: Insights from the Post-Communist World5. Presidentialism and Democratic Performance6. Constitutional asymmetries: Communal Representation, Federalism, and Cultural Autonomy7. Federalism and State-Building: Post-Communist and Post-Colonial Perspectives8. Ballots not Bullets: Testing Consociational Theories of Ethnic Conflict, Electoral Systems and Democratization9. Designing Electoral Rules and Waiting for an Electoral System to EvolvePart III: Country Studies10. 10. Constitutional Engineering in Fiji11. The British-Irish Agreement of 1998: Results and Prospects12. The Eritrean Experience in Constitution Making: The Dialectic of Process and Substance13. Indonesia's Democratic Transition: Playing By the Rules14. Institutional Design, Ethnic Conflict Management, and Democracy in Nigeria15. India

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