Tables Illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Consociationalism and Consensus Democracy in Theory and Practice Introduction The Development of the Consociational Model The Model Nine Conditions Favorable to Consociationalism Consociationalism and Its Critics Majoritarian and Consensus Democracy Conclusion Chapter 2: The Development of Consociationalism in Imperial Austrian Introduction Historical Background and Terminology Favorable and Unfavorable Conditions for Consociational Democracy in Imperial Austria Imperial Austria as a Semi-Democratic, Proto-Consociational Political System Regional Compromises as Semi-Democratic Consociationalism Historians' Criticisms, National Flexibility and the Institutionalization of Ethnicity Conclusion Chapter 3: Czechoslovakia as a Consociational Democracy Introduction The Diplomatic Career of Lewis Einstein The Favorable Conditions for Consociational Democracy in Czechoslovakia The Components of Consociational Democracy in Czechoslovakia Conclusion Chapter 4: The Consociational Model and Interwar Slovakia Introduction The Favorable Conditions for Consociational Democracy in Slovakia The Benefits of Participation The Components of Consociational Democracy in Slovakia Conclusion Chapter 5: Conclusion Evidence of Consociationalism in Central Europe Contributions to Consociational Theory Historical Approaches to Consociationalism Biographies of the Authors Index.