Code
01D07919
Duration
01 October 2019 → 01 November 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Federalism
- Belgian politics
- Party politics
Keywords
Belgium
Conflict resolution
Decentralization
Devolution
Ethnic groups
Federalism
Government crises
Negotiations
Party positions
Project description
Does decentralization fuel or pacify conflicts between ethnic groups? This study on a critical case (Belgium) uses time series to assess decentralization’s impact on (1) the policy disagreement between Flemish and Francophone elites (1978-2019) and (2) their negotiating and conflictresolving
capacity (1945-2019). We will also test whether this potential impact has been even more manifest after the 1995 milestone.