InstitutionClaim Cited
Lebanon's confessional power-sharing system
Lebanon distributes parliamentary seats and senior political offices among recognized religious communities. The arrangement helped make independence and the end of civil war negotiable, but the incomplete Taif transition also preserved sect leaders as brokers of cabinets, appointments, welfare, contracts, and veto. Its record shows both why minority assurance matters and how an interim safeguard can become an operating system for capture, paralysis, unequal service, and impunity.
Can fixed communal power-sharing protect a plural society from domination without making sect leaders permanent brokers of citizenship, public resources, and institutional veto?