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POLITICAL CRISES AND CONTEXTS OF CONSOCIATIONAL DEMOCRACY IN BELGIUM

BELÇİKA’DA SİYASİ KRİZLER VE OYDAŞMACI DEMOKRASİ’NİN BAĞLAMLARI

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64–81
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2022-10-11
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Its aim is to examine the relevance of the problems in Belgium to consociational democracy.

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Objective & Hypothesis:While Belgium was shown as the best example of Lijphart’s model of the consociational democracy, political troubles in the country have revealed that this is not the case.
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Key Findings & Data:The struggles are so strong that Belgium, which began its political life as a unitary state, with the constitutional changes that were made in 1970, was separated into linguistic areas and started to apply the power sharing feature of the consociational democracy model properly.
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Conclusion & Impact:Its aim is to examine the relevance of the problems in Belgium to consociational democracy.
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While Belgium was shown as the best example of Lijphart’s model of the consociational democracy, political troubles in the country have revealed that this is not the case. In fact, what is happening in Belgium is nothing more than the reflections of centuries of struggle and linguistic freedom efforts that have reached today. Belgium is a country where Flemings and Walloons -Flemish and French-speaking communities- live in the form of a federal government. The history of the country has been shaped by the struggles of these two language groups against each other for democratic rights. The main focus of these struggles is on linguistic freedoms. The struggles are so strong that Belgium, which began its political life as a unitary state, with the constitutional changes that were made in 1970, was separated into linguistic areas and started to apply the power sharing feature of the consociational democracy model properly. The country became a federal state as a result of the constitutional reform in 1993. Besides, constitutional amendments have been made several times in the context of language rights. Because of these changes, some argue that the system could turn into a confederation, and even reach the independence of the two sides. It is not known how long the consociational democracy, which was initially applied in order to transcend the tensioned areas of society and in order to give linguistic freedom to communities, will manage to hold the country together, however, it would be wrong to expect a separation in the near future. In this context, the subject of the study is to investigate the characteristics of the consociational model and its applications in Belgium. Its aim is to examine the relevance of the problems in Belgium to consociational democracy.

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Belçika, Lijphart’ın teorisyenliğini yaptığı oydaşmacı demokrasinin en iyi örneği olarak gösterilen ülkesi iken,ülkede baş gösteren siyasi sıkıntılar bunun böyle olmadığını ortaya çıkartmıştır. Gerçekte olan, Belçika’dayüzyıllardır süren bir mücadelenin ve dilsel özgürlük çabalarının günümüze kadar ulaşan yansımalarından başka birşey değildir. Belçika, Flamanlar ve Valonlar adı verilen, Flamanca ve Fransızca konuşan iki büyük toplumun federalbir devlette yaşadığı bir ülkedir. Ülke tarihi bu iki dil grubunun birbirleriyle olan demokratik hak talebi mücadeleleriile şekillenmiştir. Bu mücadeleler dilsel özgürlükler üzerinedir. Mücadeleler o kadar güçlü olmaktadır ki siyasihayatına üniter bir devlet sistemi ile başlayan Belçika, 1970 yılında yapılan anayasal değişiklik ile dilsel bölgelereayrılmış ve oydaşmacı modeldeki güç paylaşımı özelliğini tam anlamı ile uygulamaya başlamıştır. Ülke 1993’teyapılan anayasal reform sonucunda federal devlete dönüşmüştür. Ayrıca dil ile ilgili haklar bağlamında da defalarcaanayasal değişiklik yapılmıştır. Bu değişimlerden dolayı bazıları, sistemin konfedere bir yapıya dönüşeceğini hattabunun iki tarafın bağımsızlığına kadar varabileceğini iddia etmektedirler. Başlangıçta toplumun gerilimli alanlarınıaşmak ve topluluklara dilsel özgürlüklerini kazandırmak için uygulanan oydaşmacı modelin, ülkeyi birlikte tutmayane zamana kadar gücü yetecektir bilinmez ama yakın zamanda bir ayrılık beklemek de yanlış olacaktır. Bubağlamdan çalışmanın konusu oydaşmacı modelin özellikleri ve Belçika’daki uygulamalarının araştırılması, amacıise Belçika’daki sorunların oydaşmacı demokrasi ile ilintisinin incelenmesidir.

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CANYURT, D. (2022). POLITICAL CRISES AND CONTEXTS OF CONSOCIATIONAL DEMOCRACY IN BELGIUM. Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, Cilt: 0 - Sayı: 66, 64–81. https://ajindex.com/articles/492459

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