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Following on his investigation of these cases, Reilly argues that a centripetal, rather than consociational, institutional orientation is generally better able to mediate the destabilizing effects of social diversity in new democracies.
This study particularly identifies five structural challenges as most relevant: (1) conflicting concepts of national identity, (2) the involvement in major regional and international conflicts, (3) the consociational political system, (4) an inequitable economic system, and (5) the patriarchal value system.
In Lebanon, whose population is officially made up of 17 religious groups and whose political system is a consociational one based on these groups, it is often called C[pounds sterling]sectarianismC[yen].
 
 
 
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